Environmental crews have analyzed the contents of 479 containers found at the site of a former electroplating company in Evansville, where a $1 million cleanup is under way.
A second giant sinkhole in less than a month in Fort Wayne has closed part of another street for repairs.
Investigators are working to determine whether the body of a man found in the White River in Indianapolis is that of a canoeist missing for nearly two months.
Bloomington has been nationally recognized for its local business opportunities, and recent IU grad Jared Schneider has taken full advantage of them
Thousands of troops fired warning shots and tear gas to turn back rampaging anti-government protesters Monday night, forcing retreating demonstrators into one neighborhood where residents furious at the chaos turned against them.
Italian Jews and Holocaust survivors are rushing to aid communities that sheltered them during World War II and were hit by last week’s devastating earthquake.
President Barack Obama promised Monday to work with other nations “to halt the rise of piracy,” while Somali pirates vowed revenge for the deaths of three colleagues shot by snipers during the daring high-seas rescue of an American sea captain.
A fast-moving fire tore through a three-story building housing homeless families in northwestern Poland early Monday, killing 21 people and injuring 20 more, including some who leaped from windows to escape the flames, officials said.
President Barack Obama directed his administration Monday to allow unlimited travel and money transfers by Cuban Americans to family in Cuba, and to take other steps to ease U.S. restrictions on the island, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.
NEW YORK – Wall Street retreated Monday as traders speculated about the future of General Motors Corp. and awaited a flurry of earnings reports and data that could provide insight into the direction of the economy.
INDIANAPOLIS – Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard on Monday proposed raising alcohol and car rental taxes in Marion County as part of an approximately $50 million plan to cover a projected budget shortfall by the Capital Improvement Board, which oversees the stadiums for the Indianapolis Colts and the Indiana Pacers.
WASHINGTON – Most people say they plan to use this year’s tax refund to pay bills, deciding in this sour economy to be more frugal with their annual windfall. Fifty-four percent of those receiving refunds said they intend to pay off credit card, utility, housing and other bills, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released Monday. That compares with 35 percent who said the same thing a year ago.
Senior Paris Gray knows all too well how hard it is to get a job in Washington, the goal of many political science majors after college. Jobs and paid internships seem to be disappearing, and the cost of living in a place like Washington is hardly cheap. But rather than fret about all of the networking and resume-sending he’ll need to do in order to get that ideal job, Gray has decided to quit it all for now and try teaching instead.According to a March 13 New York Times article, the recession has sparked a new sense among many young people to take the challenges of finding traditional work into their own hands
WASHINGTON – Longtime Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas, who punctuated innumerable home runs with his “Outta Here!” call, died Monday after being found in the broadcast booth before a game against the Washington Nationals. He was 73.
I’ll give ’em credit, I really will. This 2008-09 edition of the Indiana Pacers has shown signs of, yes, improvement and encouragement in what will now be their third straight season of missing the NBA playoffs.
They range from the freshly graduated 23-year-old whose been ousted from his first job to a 61-year-old who blames the Chinese for killing the American textile industry.
“In London, Washington and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.”
Even in this difficult economic period, there are some jobs that hold little appeal for college students. The teaching profession is one of them.
Bert Sperling, the man behind the popular “Best Places to Live” surveys, has devised a ranking of the top 50 manliest cities in America, and Indianapolis finished in the top 10, a very impressive feat.
YouTube and Universal Music Group are teaming up on an online music video venture that will launch later this year with Universal’s entire catalog of nearly 10,000 music videos.
