United cuts could lead to more fines over Indy jobs\nINDIANAPOLIS -- United Airlines' latest cost-cutting move could come with a big price: the possibility of a second fine for missing investment targets at its Indianapolis maintenance hub.\nUnited paid a $34 million penalty to state and local governments this year for failing to invest $800 million during the maintenance center's first 10 years.\nThe requirement was part of a 1991 deal that won the airline a $300 million tax-and-incentive package for choosing Indianapolis International Airport as the site of the maintenance hub.\nWith Monday's announcement of 1,250 more companywide layoffs -- including 250 at the Indianapolis maintenance hub and 75 more at an Indianapolis reservation center -- United has put itself at risk of violating another stipulation and incurring another fine, union and local officials say.\nThat provision requires the company to employ 7,500 people locally by 2004.\nMom charged in video beating arraigned on theft\nLAGRANGE, Ind. -- The woman accused of beating her daughter on a security video broadcast nationwide was arraigned on charges of taking fabric from a department store.\nMadelyne Toogood, 25, and her sister, Margaret Jean Daley, 31, were led into the LaGrange County Courthouse shackled for their first court appearance Monday. Both had been wanted on outstanding warrants.\nInnocent pleas to the felony theft charges were entered on their behalf in LaGrange Circuit Court and a judge set their bail at $3,500.\nBoth women declined to comment as they left court. They were later released on bond.\nProsecutors allege that the sisters went to Yoder's department store in Shipshewana about 35 miles east of South Bend on Aug. 21 and took some fabric. They reportedly told a clerk at the store that they bought the material days earlier but forgot to take it home.\nLast month, Toogood and her sister made headlines nationally after police in Mishawaka released a Kohl's department store surveillance video they said showed Toogood putting her 4-year-old daughter into a sport utility vehicle and then repeatedly slapping and shaking her.\nThe surveillance tape was made when Toogood and her sister left the store after being refused a cash refund, police have said.\nAbout a week after the national media attention, Toogood surrendered to St. Joseph County authorities. She is charged there with battery to a child and false informing for allegedly giving police a false address.\nShe is free on $7,000 bond in St. Joseph County, where her case is pending. Daley has been charged in St. Joseph County with failure to report child abuse and assisting a criminal.
sh: Indiana unemployment rate dips, remains below national figure\nINDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana's unemployment rate dipped two-tenths of a percentage point last month, remaining within the range it has stayed for 12 months, federal data released Tuesday show.\nIndiana's seasonally adjusted number in September was 5.0 percent, compared with 5.6 percent for the nation as a whole, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said.\nIndiana's rate has stayed within the 4.9 percent to 5.2 percent range since October 2001 through last month. August was the first month since December 1993 that Indiana's rate was as high as 5.2 percent.\nIndiana's rate jumped from 2.9 percent to 5.0 percent between September 2000 and October 2001 as the recession hit Indiana's manufacturing-based economy especially hard.\nManufacturing employment has declined nationally for 26 straight months, according to federal figures. In Indiana, 25 percent of all jobs are in manufacturing and construction -- the highest in the nation.
