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Heat and Pacers set to square off in Miami
NBA's Eastern Conference final tonight with Game 1 in Miami. This is a series featuring two contrasting teams. The Heat, the defending league champions, are a battle-tested squad very familiar with the pressure of late-season playoffs. For the Pacers, these are pretty much untested waters as only one member of the team has ever been in a conference final. Backup big man Ian Mahinmi got all ...
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FBI Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe
Investigators stand outside an apartment complex in Orlando, Fla., where a man was fatally shot when a team of FBI agents swarmed his home early on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The FBI says the man, being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation. (AP Photo/John ...
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Fever hopes for 2nd sraight overall win
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Tamika Catchings grew accustomed to hearing the annual question. Can you win a championship? The ring was the only thing missing from a sterling resume that included three gold medals, five defensive MVPs, seven All-Star appearances and the league's 2011 MVP Award. So when she walked into Bankers Life Fieldhouse last week, Catchings was all smiles. Winning a championship ...
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IMPD arrests woman for prostitution
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department arrested a woman they are calling a $600 call girl. Veronica Leblanc was arrested for prostitution. Police seized more than $300,000 in assets from her and her alleged partner. Check back at WISHTV.com for ...
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Pence pledges to finish I-69
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Gov. Mike Pence says that the completion of Interstate 69 from Evansville to Indianapolis is his top priority when it comes to road building. Pence spoke to an audience Wednesday morning that included contractors and others eager to take part in the project. The state is currently seeking private partners to help upgrade the 21-mile stretch of State Road 37 between ...
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DMD suspends Land Bank activities
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development has postponed all Land Bank transfers following an FBI investigation that resulted in the arrest of two city officials and charges against three others. Officials say on Wednesday, staff was reviewing the status of all projects and ...
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway apologizes for shutting down lemonade
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway apologized for shutting down a 10-year-old girl's lemonade stand during the city's Lemonade Day. Morgen Morris, whose stand Saturday was sponsored by WIBC-FM, Indianapolis, said she was hoping to raise enough money to buy a Kindle Fire, donate to the American Heart Association in honor of her late uncle and start a college fund by selling lemonade for ...
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Graduation request for Taylor Swift
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Matthew Gaines has cerebral palsy, but that has not stopped him from graduating next week, and it's not stopping him from making a very special request. The California boy is a huge Taylor Swift fan. "I was talking to him about graduation and asked him what he would want more than anything, and he said 'I'd love Taylor Swift to walk me down the aisle for ...
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Girl dies from pain patch overdose
INDIANAPOLIS - A 12-year-old girl in Missouri died of a Fentanyl overdose after she unknowingly put a used painkiller patch on her leg. Destiny Spitlerfound a used pain patch in the trash that her grandmother had used to manage her back pain. Spitler put the patch on her leg like a sticker. She went to bed and never woke up. "It's primarily a respiratory depressant. It knocks them out. ...
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Thunderstorms forecast this afternoon
Thunderstorms in forecast Northwest Ohio is likely to get the worst of it as thunderstorms rumble into the region tonight and Wednesday, the National Weather Service said ...
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Indiana presses ahead with I-69s next section
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana is pressing ahead with its search for a private company to finance and build a 21-mile section of the Interstate 69 extension that will eventually run from Evansville to ...
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Fla. Man killed in I-69 accident
HAMILTON CO., Ind. (WISH) - Indiana State Police is investigating a single vehicle accident that killed a Florida man. Police say Henry Michael Marchetta, 53, of Winter Park, Fla., was driving a Volkswagon north on Interstate 69 near the 204 mile marker in the third of four lanes when the vehicle veered to the left, struck a concrete barrier and came to rest against the highway wall. Marchetta ...
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DPW to invest $92M in infrastructure
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The Indianapolis Department of Public Works launched its 2013 construction season Wednesday. Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and other officials gathered at the site of the Fall Creek extension trail. The trail will connect it to the Monon Trail and to Fort Harrison Park. Ballard said DPW will invest $92 million on infrastructure in 2013. "This is on top of well over a ...
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Professor pushes construction changes
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana professor is working to improve construction standards so that buildings can better withstand high wind loads such as those carried by this week's deadly tornado in Oklahoma. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering Professor Fred Haan has spent 15 years studying ways to build structures that can survive high winds. He hopes to establish ...
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VA clinic official says works continues
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - An official from Fort Wayne's VA Medical Center says it is working to restore its reputation after problems caused it to suspend inpatient care last year. A crowd of about 50 people attended a forum held Tuesday evening by an American Legion task force visiting the clinic this ...
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Ballard Shock disappointment over Indy Land Bank scandal
It's been 24 hours since news broke of a Federal Bureau of Investigation raid at the City-County Building confiscating files from the Indy Land Bank program. The federal investigation also led to the ...
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Tonight at 11pm State of Your Money
You paid for it. Now the question is, where is it? Tonight at 11:00 pm, 13 Investigates has discovered the State of Indiana has thousands of items classified as lost or missing. Some of it is stuff ...
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Mayor Ballard reacts to city FBI probe
INDIANAPOLIS - After Tuesday's FBI probe into alleged corrupt business practices in the Department of Metropolitan Development, Mayor Greg Ballard reacted to the indictment of two city officials linked to the city's land bank program. Reggie Walton, 29, assistant administrator of the DMD, and John Hawkins, 27, senior project manager for the agency, were taken into custody Tuesday on ...
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Pacers fans get pumped up for Game 1
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Pacers fans gathered at City Market Wednesday morning for a pep rally ahead of the Game 1 conference finals against the Miami Heat. Fans danced to music, won prizes and got a chance to meet Boomer, the Pacemates and former Pacers. A second pep rally was scheduled to be held at the Key Bank Kroger at 71st Street and Binford Boulevard. Fans will get a chance to win prizes ...
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Allmendinger cheers on Legge at Indianapolis
Katherine Legge, of England, sits in her car as the slowest qualifier in the field on the second day of qualifications for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Darron ...
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Oklahoma tornado damage could cost more than $2 billion
MOORE, Okla. - The cost of a massive tornado that battered an Oklahoma City suburb could be more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary official estimate announced Wednesday. State authorities meanwhile said two infants were among the 24 people who perished in the twister.Oklahoma Insurance Department spokeswoman Calley Herth told The Associated Press that the early damage tally is based on ...
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Polaris plans $4.7 million laboratory expansion
Polaris Laboratories LLC, an Indianapolis-based company that analyzes oil, fuel and coolants, said it plans a $4.7 million local expansion that will add up to 25 employees by 2016. The 14-year-old company, based at 7898 Zionsville Road, announced Wednesday that it will open a 61,000-square-foot facility at 7451 Winton Drive by this fall. The new labs, near Georgetown Road and 71st Street, ...
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Pittman pitches $90M mixed-use project for Zionsville
One of the highest-profile tracts of undeveloped land in Zionsville could be transformed into a commercial and residential hub if a $90 million project gets the town’s blessing. Pittman Partners LLC is proposing to build The Farm at Zionsville, a 62-acre mixed-use development at the southwest corner of Michigan Road and Sycamore Street-a key gateway into the Boone County ...
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Kennedy partners with Olympic runner to buy shoe chain
Indianapolis businessman and two-time Olympic distance runner Bob Kennedy has acquired a majority interest in San Diego-based Movin Shoes Inc., a chain of three specialty running and walking stores in Southern California. Kennedy, the co-founder of the BlueMile chain of running stores in Indiana, partnered with Olympic marathon silver medalist and San Diego native Meb Keflezighi to buy the ...
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Stonegate raises $115M to fund jumbo mortgage expansion
Stonegate Mortgage Corp., the closely held lender that originated almost twice as much debt last quarter as in all of 2011, sold $115 million of common shares in a private offering to continue its expansion, it announced Wednesday. The company will use the funds to fuel originations of loans not intended for government-backed programs, as well as to build its portfolio of servicing ...
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Indianapolis mass transit system no closer
Indianapolis is the 14th largest city in the world, but in the area of mass transit, its ranked 100th in terms of the quality of public transport in the city and surrounding regional areas. This is a state of affairs that lawmakers and city leaders have acknowledged cannot last, but finding the money and the necessary will of leadership to implement the construction of a mass transit system has proven difficult and recent events suggest the project may never find traction.
The value of mass transit on a regional level has never been in question, for twenty years the city has been exploring the idea of an integrated mass transit system incorporating the city’s already existing bus system with light and heavy rail lines, with commuter (heavy) rail systems connecting the city of Indianapolis with the wider region and light rail providing an intra-city, urban transport service. Read more
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