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Outsourcing didn't pay off for Conseco. Insurance firm may be at forefront of trend by bringing jobs moved to India back to U.S. By Bill W. Hornaday bill.hornaday@indystar.com April 22, 2004 CARMEL, Ind. -- Three years ago, when Conseco moved 800 jobs to India, its chief executive was clear that his pioneering outsourcing move was more than just cost-cutting. "I'm convinced there's better customer service in India. It's no good here," then-CEO Gary Wendt told The Indianapolis Star. These days, the insurer also may be a pioneer because it brought most of those jobs back to Indiana. More than 150...

Boy, 13, accused in death of sister Suspect used pillow to stop infant's crying at a motel, police say; parents had gone out. By Kevin O'Neal kevin.oneal@indystar.com September 19, 2003 A 13-year-old boy left to care for his 4-month-old sister apparently smothered her with a pillow to stop her crying, Beech Grove police said Thursday night. The boy is in the Marion County Juvenile Center on preliminary charges of reckless homicide, making him the youngest person accused in a Marion County killing in at least five years. He lived in a motel room with his two sisters, his mom and...

Ruth Holladay In this hate crime, truth is in the eye of the beholder September 11, 2003 Will the real hate crime please stand up? A waitress at a Southeastside country bar is bopped by a beer bottle allegedly thrown by an angry man. Her head is cut; it takes six stitches to close the wound. Before she was struck, the man and his buddies, according to witnesses, had been hassling women on the dance floor -- touching them against their wishes. That prompted a request from the bouncer that they leave. The bottle that hit the waitress was supposedly...

shelby county Ferocious wildcat chews up Buick By Paul Bird paul.bird@indystar.com May 8, 2003 Fairland -- A wildcat bit and flattened the tires of a Fairland woman's car, clawed electrical wiring and chewed away part of a bumper. "It is unbelievable how much damaged there was," Edra Ragland said of her Buick. "One estimate is $1,700, but it could be more when it is all done." It was shock and awe about noon Tuesday when the 72-year-old Ragland discovered something had attacked her car. She called the Shelby County Sheriff's Department, and Deputy Travis Maloney responded. Bite and claw marks...

Cop kills goose that pecked his dog Officer faces possible 1-day suspension for killing aggressive bird trying to protect its nest. By Tom Spalding tom.spalding@indystar.com April 30, 2003 The seesawing Indianapolis feud between humans and Canada geese has escalated again, this time after an angry bird pecked a fight with the wrong man. Indianapolis Police Officer Mitch Waters was letting his K-9 partner take care of business when a goose, trying to protect a nearby nest, swooped over a fence and nipped at the dog's nose. Waters opened fire. "He did what he thought he had to do to protect...

New Hoosiers set dubious mark 309 percent increase in illegal newcomers is attributed to state's jobs in agriculture. By John Fritze john.fritze@indystar.com February 24, 2003 The number of illegal immigrants in Indiana shot up by more than 300 percent over the past decade, a rate three times that of the United States, according to recent Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates. California and Texas maintained the highest number of illegal immigrants, but the sharpest growth occurred in the Southeast and Midwest -- suggesting that many new arrivals found states such as Indiana more attractive than traditional gateway hubs. The surge of...

Poison pen-pal forgets obvious By BRYAN CORBIN Daily Journal news editor bcorbin@thejournalnet.com Jan. 10, 2003 The prison inmate who sent anthrax-hoax letters to the prosecutor and judge who put him behind bars made it easy for investigators to find him: He included his correct return address on the envelopes. And now Kevin R. Mitchell, who was scheduled to be released from state prison next year, could spend another eight years in the slammer. “It would be charitable to say a person who would do that has a room-temperature IQ,” said Johnson County Prosecutor Lance Hamner. “It’s hard to imagine what...