Monday, May 20 2013 10:00 AM EDT2013-05-20 14:00:32 GMT
Fifty-three-year-old Paul Bateman, a former Indianapolis City-County Council member, faces sentencing on charges of using a charitable foundation to defraud an investor out of $1.7 million.More >>
Fifty-three-year-old Paul Bateman, a former Indianapolis City-County Council member, faces sentencing on charges of using a charitable foundation to defraud an investor out of $1.7 million.
Monday, May 20 2013 9:01 AM EDT2013-05-20 13:01:12 GMT
Construction has stopped on a pharmaceutical facility being built with a $6 million loan from Greenwood. The city attorney says the city could foreclose on the Elona Biotechnologies facility.More >>
Construction has stopped on a pharmaceutical facility being built with a $6 million loan from a suburban Indianapolis city. Greenwood city attorney Krista Taggart says the city could foreclose on the Elona Biotechnologies facility within the next few weeks unless new investors take over the company. More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 7:27 AM EDT2013-05-20 11:27:10 GMT
If you're accustomed to free parking in Speedway during the Indianapolis 500, you may have to rethink your plans. New restrictions for some residential streets around the track are in place.. And if youMore >>
If you're accustomed to free parking in Speedway during the Indianapolis 500, you may have to rethink your plans. New restrictions for some residential streets around the track are in place.. And if you violate them, it could cost you.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 6:45 AM EDT2013-05-20 10:45:09 GMT
The Indiana Pacers return to practice on Monday, getting ready for game one of the Eastern Conference Finals and the Miami Heat. The Pacers are coming off an electrifying win Saturday night at BankersMore >>
The Indiana Pacers return to practice on Monday, getting ready for game one of the Eastern Conference Finals and the Miami Heat. The Pacers are coming off an electrifying win Saturday night at BankersMore >>
Monday, May 20 2013 5:35 AM EDT2013-05-20 09:35:08 GMT
Safety for an international event like the Indy 500 is planned well in advance. However, those plans are constantly changed and updated, depending on what's happening the day of the race. For the firstMore >>
Safety for an international event like the Indy 500 is planned well in advance. However, those plans are constantly changed and updated, depending on what's happening the day of the race.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 5:30 AM EDT2013-05-20 09:30:16 GMT
One of several tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system rumbling through the Plains and Midwest has leveled several mobile homes in an area southeast of Oklahoma City. Reports of injuries in theMore >>
One of several tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system rumbling through the Plains and Midwest has leveled several mobile homes in an area southeast of Oklahoma City. One man was found dead there.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 4:40 AM EDT2013-05-20 08:40:34 GMT
Tuesday is the next deadline to sign up for Indiana's Do Not Call registry. Since January, the state attorney general's office says it has received more than 5,000 complaints about telemarketing callsMore >>
Tuesday is the next deadline to sign up for Indiana's Do Not Call registry.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 4:37 AM EDT2013-05-20 08:37:09 GMT
A groundbreaking female rabbi has retired from her Indianapolis congregation. Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso retired last week as a senior rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis after 26 yearsMore >>
A groundbreaking female rabbi has retired from her Indianapolis congregation.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 4:30 AM EDT2013-05-20 08:30:04 GMT
The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, who served as president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years, will mark his 70 years as a priest by taking part in a Jubilee Mass on Friday, the day before he turnsMore >>
The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, who served as president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years, will mark his 70 years as a priest by taking part in a Jubilee Mass on Friday, the day before he turns 96 years old.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 3:38 AM EDT2013-05-20 07:38:58 GMT
The Indianapolis 500 does not start without Jim Nabors and the Pacers don't advance in the NBA Playoffs without hearing at least one "boom baby" from Slick Leonard. Some traditions you just don't messMore >>
The last time the Pacers played on race day was 2004. It will happen again Sunday, opening the possibilities for fans to see both. They might even get tickets to both for $100 total.More >>
INDIANAPOLIS -
State senators want more information about the number of jobs actually created in Indiana.
Tuesday morning, the Indiana Senate passed a bill that would require the Indiana Economic Development Corporation to provide more details to the public.
Senator Mike Delph (R-Carmel) introduced the legislation after 13 Investigates exposed tens of thousands of jobs announced by the state's official job-creation agency never materialized. The two-year Eyewitness News investigation also showed IEDC misled the public and state lawmakers by continuing to report job statistics for announced projects that had fallen apart years earlier.
IEDC awards more than $100 million in public tax dollars each year to companies that agree to create jobs in Indiana. But the agency regularly withholds detailed job information from taxpayers and the media, claiming the information could be considered a trade secret.
Senate Bill 162 would not require IEDC to disclose specific job realization numbers for each individual company that receives public tax dollars. That language was included in the original bill, but IEDC successfully fought to have it removed.
The amended bill, which senators passed Tuesday by a vote of 49-1, would require IEDC to publish an annual report that includes the total aggregate number of jobs created - not only the number of jobs that were anticipated - and the total amount of money that companies received in public tax dollars since the agency was created in 2005. The bill would also require final incentive contracts between IEDC and corporations to be made available to the public more quickly, and it would require IEDC to hold companies more accountable for their anticipated level of financial investment in Indiana.
The bill now goes to the Indiana House of Representatives.
Monday, May 20 2013 6:45 AM EDT2013-05-20 10:45:09 GMT
The Indiana Pacers return to practice on Monday, getting ready for game one of the Eastern Conference Finals and the Miami Heat. The Pacers are coming off an electrifying win Saturday night at BankersMore >>
The Indiana Pacers return to practice on Monday, getting ready for game one of the Eastern Conference Finals and the Miami Heat. The Pacers are coming off an electrifying win Saturday night at BankersMore >>
Monday, May 20 2013 7:27 AM EDT2013-05-20 11:27:10 GMT
If you're accustomed to free parking in Speedway during the Indianapolis 500, you may have to rethink your plans. New restrictions for some residential streets around the track are in place.. And if youMore >>
If you're accustomed to free parking in Speedway during the Indianapolis 500, you may have to rethink your plans. New restrictions for some residential streets around the track are in place.. And if you violate them, it could cost you.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 8:53 AM EDT2013-05-20 12:53:06 GMT
There could be bumping at Indianapolis this weekend. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports said Saturday afternoon that it has hired British driver Katherine Legge to drive the No. 81 car. That gives IndianapolisMore >>
British driver Katherine Legge has become the 33rd driver to qualify for next week's Indianapolis 500, assuring race organizers of a full field.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 5:35 AM EDT2013-05-20 09:35:08 GMT
Safety for an international event like the Indy 500 is planned well in advance. However, those plans are constantly changed and updated, depending on what's happening the day of the race. For the firstMore >>
Safety for an international event like the Indy 500 is planned well in advance. However, those plans are constantly changed and updated, depending on what's happening the day of the race.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 9:01 AM EDT2013-05-20 13:01:12 GMT
Construction has stopped on a pharmaceutical facility being built with a $6 million loan from Greenwood. The city attorney says the city could foreclose on the Elona Biotechnologies facility.More >>
Construction has stopped on a pharmaceutical facility being built with a $6 million loan from a suburban Indianapolis city. Greenwood city attorney Krista Taggart says the city could foreclose on the Elona Biotechnologies facility within the next few weeks unless new investors take over the company. More >>
Sunday, May 19 2013 3:25 PM EDT2013-05-19 19:25:56 GMT
Conservation officers recovered the body of a woman from the Empire Quarry in southern Indiana early Sunday morning. Officers were called to the quarry after a report of a body floating in the water.More >>
Conservation officers recovered the body of a woman from the Empire Quarry in southern Indiana early Sunday morning.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 5:30 AM EDT2013-05-20 09:30:16 GMT
One of several tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system rumbling through the Plains and Midwest has leveled several mobile homes in an area southeast of Oklahoma City. Reports of injuries in theMore >>
One of several tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system rumbling through the Plains and Midwest has leveled several mobile homes in an area southeast of Oklahoma City. One man was found dead there.More >>
Sunday, May 19 2013 1:10 PM EDT2013-05-19 17:10:17 GMT
A crash involving three vehicles near Muncie has sent as many as seven people - including five children - to a hospital. Officers on scene tell The Star Press that all of the injuries are non-life-threatening. TheMore >>
A crash involving three vehicles near Muncie has sent as many as seven people - including five children - to a hospital.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 3:38 AM EDT2013-05-20 07:38:58 GMT
The Indianapolis 500 does not start without Jim Nabors and the Pacers don't advance in the NBA Playoffs without hearing at least one "boom baby" from Slick Leonard. Some traditions you just don't messMore >>
The last time the Pacers played on race day was 2004. It will happen again Sunday, opening the possibilities for fans to see both. They might even get tickets to both for $100 total.More >>
Experts say the officer who killed a Long Island college student and a home invasion suspect on Friday was confronted with a split-second choice.More >>
The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer.More >>
WTHR found this empty factory in Columbus where IEDC said it helped create 125 new jobs.
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