The death of a 16-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet in Indianapolis is a dramatic example of how large gatherings are hurting the coronavirus fight and leading to increased violence in the city.

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The Bulldogs reached the title game with a 52-50 victory over Michigan State

Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez announced his school will not submit waivers for spring-sport seniors to regain a year of eligibility.

Schilling — otherwise known as "Big Ed" or "Big Chill" — died Thursday at Witham Hospital in Lebanon. He was 75.

Arlington High School alum Vivica A. Fox will speak at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, as part of the Meet the Artists opening reception at Indianapolis Central Library. Her book, "Every Day I'm Hustling" will arrive in stores April 3.

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Police say a scuffle at a Friday night gathering in Noblesville, Indiana, led to a man shooting another man.

Restaurant owner Roxy Taschuk wasn’t optimistic about the state of her industry when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

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Robert Wickens made the surprise charge of the race, taking eighth, but it was Scott McLaughlin clinching his first IndyCar victory of any sort Saturday.

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My colleague Tanya Beckett has conducted a rare and fascinating interview with Viktor Vekselberg, one of the billionaire oligarchs who co-own TNK-BP with BP - and who have fallen out with BP over BP's desire to form a business relationship with Rosneft, Russia's largest energy group, which would involve BP and Rosneft taking stakes in each other.

Because of the tensions that have arisen with AAR, the group that represents the oligarchs, BP in collaboration with Rosneft would dearly love to buy AAR's half share in TNK-BP. But their offer of $27bn for 50% of TNK-BP, which values the whole of TNK-BP at $54bn, was rejected earlier this month.

All may not be lost for BP, however. Mr Vekselberg suggests that a sale is possible. He tells Tanya Beckett:

"Of course it can be happen, for sure. If it will be [an] interesting proposal for us according to our understanding of (the) valuation of this company, of course we can accept. So far we have not received this."

So what would be an "interesting" valuation of TNK-BP? Well those close to the oligarchs say that they value TNK-BP at more than $70bn.

It's not clear BP and Rosneft are prepared to pay as much that. The difficulty for BP is that if it fails to reach an accommodation with Mr Vekselberg and his colleagues on price, then it will be stuck in a difficult place - because BP will have been publicly humiliated by the failure to consummate the Rosneft deal and will somehow have to rebuild relations with AAR in order to continue to extract billions of dollars in dividends from TNK-BP.

BP's partnership with AAR is in tatters, as Mr Vekselberg makes clear, in emotive terms, because of AAR's conviction, upheld in arbitration proceedings, that BP's proposed deal with Rosneft breached its contract with AAR:

"The picture is really simple. TNK-BP was created eight years ago, 2003. It was created like [a] joint venture between Russian shareholders and BP, huge global player... The company grew very active; it's now one of the best companies - not just Russian but internationally, because we have investment outside Russia...
 
And really I personally was surprised, I was surprised why BP decided to do something which [was] not according to our shareholders agreement. I am not surprised why BP would like to do this but I am surprised why they did it without any consulting or even just like, just inform us about that (sic). I was very upset, I am still upset even now".

Mr Vekselberg says he is "not so interested in money". The billionaire
adds: "I have enough money, for my life, for my family, for all that".
But "we are businessmen, we are not ideological or something", so of course a sale to BP and Rosneft "can happen".

So what would occur if BP and Rosneft were to make him several billion dollars richer? "I am already very upset" he says "but I will [be] double upset if I have to decide to sell. It's because I dedicated for this company almost like 15 years".

These remarks by Mr Vekselberg are a sign that the impasse over the purchase by BP and Rosneft of AAR's stake in TNK-BP can be overcome.
It offers hope to BP, perhaps for the first time, that it may be able to buy AAR out of the joint venture by the time of the May 16 extended deadline set by Rosneft.

But here's the question? Is the price that Mr Vekselberg and his fellow billionaires will accept one that BP's owners will see as acceptable?

Some of them are already dubious about the terms of the new partnership it wants to form with Rosneft. At a time when BP remains financially stretched by the costs of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, BP's shareholders won't want it to further enrich Mr Vekselberg more than is strictly necessary.

For more on the Vekselberg interview, see Russia Business Report.

Don't blame Josef Newgarden for leaving Ed Carpenter's popular IndyCar Series team, and don't blame powerful Team Penske for signing Newgarden. It's the right thing to do for the employee and his new employer.

All Avon schools will close through March 20 as one student has tested positive and a second student is showing symptoms of the novel coronavirus.

Teachers from North Elementary School in Noblesville decorated their cars and paraded through neighborhoods, waving and honking at students from afar during the closure of schools because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Indiana's K-12 schools will stayed closed through the end of the academic year as the state continues to fight the spread of the coronavirus.

With schools and campuses closed, high school seniors are planning for college just like they are finishing their high school careers: virtually.

With schools closed, fifth and eighth grade students navigate the transition from elementary to middle school or middle to high school on their own.

The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel invites the class of 2020 from across Central Indiana to a prom this August.

Plans are underway for Speedway High School seniors to celebrate their graduation at IMS on May 30.

Hamilton Southeastern senior averaged 8.4 points and 5.7 rebounds as a junior

IU basketball alum Cody Zeller recalls getting an unusual pep talk from Super Bowl coaches John and Jim Harbaugh

Chatard's Miranda Stickel was so determined to return to state, she ran on legs she knew might break. Then the coronavirus pandemic ended her career.

High School basketball teams competed in the Charlie Hughes Shootout on Saturday, June 29, 2019.

It might sound alarmist to even wonder about having fall sports. But we are probably well past the point of anything sounding alarmist.

With the 2020 softball season approaching, it's time to break down the top Indiana prospects in each class. We start with a loaded senior class.

There are 124 teams signed up for the Charlie Hughes Shootout, but the June 30 mandate of schools being closed throws the event in doubt.