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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Indiana State University and Thompson Thrift Announce Transformative Partnership and Naming of the Thompson Thrift Department of Construction Management
Historic gift to support innovation, education, and industry collaboration in construction management TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Indiana State University and Thompson Thrift, a nationally recognized leader in the real estate industry, have announced a groundbreaking partnership that includes a $1.4 million gift to the University. During their agenda meeting on July 24, the Board of Trustees approved the naming of the Thompson Thrift Department of Construction Management in the Bailey College of Engineering and Technology. This partnership reflects both institutions' shared commitment to excellence, innovation and community impact, setting a new standard for collaboration between higher education and industry. In addition to the gift to the University, Thompson Thrift is providing $1.3 million in paid summer internships over the next 15 years to qualified students majoring in construction management. "This partnership exemplifies Indiana State's commitment to forging innovative, high-impact alliances that elevate academic excellence and professional readiness," said Mike Godard, president of Indiana State University. "It stands as a model for how public-private collaboration can enrich higher education, demonstrating the transformative potential when universities and industry leaders unite with a shared vision. Through the integration of experiential learning, professional mentorship, and industry-aligned curricula, we are equipping our students for meaningful careers in a competitive field. Beyond these direct benefits, this collaboration strengthens recruitment, enhances retention, and boosts the university's reputation, both within the Thompson Thrift Department of Construction Management and across our campus. We are deeply grateful to John Thompson and Paul Thrift for their leadership, generosity and belief in the power of partnership to shape the future of the next generation of our educated workforce." The newly named Thompson Thrift Department of Construction Management will benefit from scholarship support, internship, and new interdisciplinary initiatives that bridge education with industry practice. The department will host guest lecturers and adjunct professors from various business units within Thompson Thrift to provide students with real-world perspectives. "Partnering with Indiana State University aligns perfectly with our mission to positively impact our team members and the communities we serve," said John Thompson, CEO of Thompson Thrift Construction. "By investing in the next generation of construction leaders, we're building a foundation for a more innovative and resilient future." Beginning in the fall 2026 academic year, junior and senior students majoring in construction management will have the opportunity to earn a $5,000 annual scholarship, renewable for one year, as an outcome of this partnership. Scholarships will be given to 10 students from Indiana or Illinois who are on-campus students with a declared major in construction management. In addition, the gift supports the departmental program fund, which provides experiential learning opportunities to students, outreach to middle and high school students, faculty professional development and equipment upgrades as needed. Thompson Thrift's longstanding connection to Indiana State University is reflected in its team members, with 15% of the Thompson Thrift team counted among ISU alumni, including co-founders and CEOs Paul Thrift and John Thompson, both honored as 2022 recipients of the University's Distinguished Alumni Award. "The University's connection to Thompson Thrift began when John Thompson and Paul Thrift started their company as students at Indiana State," said Andrea Angel, vice president of university advancement and CEO of the Indiana State University Foundation. "The partnership continues this legacy and provides a framework of how business and industry can partner in meaningful ways with higher education." The gift also establishes a named construction management classroom for Thompson Thrift, which will be unveiled at a ceremony recognizing this commitment upon completion of the Bailey College of Engineering and Technology renovations in the fall of 2026. About Thompson Thrift Real Estate CompanySince its founding in 1986, Thompson Thrift has grown from a locally focused development and construction company into a full-service, integrated enterprise with a national scope. From its offices in Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Indiana; Denver; Houston; and Phoenix the company is engaged in all aspects of development, construction, leasing and management of quality multifamily and commercial projects. The company earned national recognition as a winner of a 2025 Top Workplaces USA award, the latest accolade that reflects the company's ongoing commitment to excellence in the community and workplace. For more information, please visit Contact: Jennifer Franklin Spotlight Marketing Communications 949.427.1385 jennifer@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Thompson Thrift Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
West Terre Haute Post 501 loses lead, then game
Friday just wasn't John E. Heyen Post 501's night as it lost its lead and then the game in the final two innings to Madison Post 9 by a score of 7-4 at Terre Haute North's Don Jennings Field. Brandon Dailey singled and then stole second in the first inning. He found home plate when Garrett Porter singled before stealing second mirroring the action of Dailey. Advertisement But Madison Post 9 fought back and plated two runs to take the lead in the top of the fourth. But 501 didn't want to give it up that early as Dailey once again found home plate in the fifth when he once again got on base to lead off the bottom half of the inning. Jayce Noblitt was another key contributor offensively for Post 501 as he found himself on third or touching home on two of his three plate appearances. Garrett Porter reached second in his first at bat before scoring in his last appearance of the night, but Madison proved too tough for Post 501's offense. Peyton Powers was strong on the mound for a bit Friday for Post 501, but Madison eventually figured him out as he gave up four runs on six hits but struck out five and walked just one batter. Alan Ramirez came on in relief and went 1.2 before giving way to Porter, who went 0.1 to close things out. Unfortunately for 501, extra-base hits weren't to be found Friday, while Madison had two doubles and laid down expert bunting to advance runners and get those late runs in the sixth and seventh innings. Madison plated three in the top of the sixth before getting another two in the top of the seventh. Advertisement Things simply unraveled for 501, who will tangle with Clay County at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Leaving four players on base didn't help 501's cause either. Jayce Noblitt, Ryan Cobb, Dailey and Garrett Porter all swiped bases but not enough to sneak past Madison, who will now face Wayne Newton Post 346 at 9 a.m. Saturday. Madison 000 203 2 — 7 10 2 John E. Heyen 100 030 0 — 4 4 1 LOB — Madison 6, John Heyen 4. 2B — Johnson 2. SB — Traylor 2, Johnson 2, Harsin 2. CS — Michael. Madison Post 9 IP H R ER BB SO O'Neal 5 4 4 3 4 6 Harden 2 0 0 0 0 1 John E. Heyen IP H R ER BB SO Powers 5 6 4 4 1 5 Ramirez 1.2 4 3 3 1 1 Porter 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
First Financial Corp.: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — First Financial Corp. (THFF) on Tuesday reported net income of $18.6 million in its second quarter. The bank, based in Terre Haute, Indiana, said it had earnings of $1.57 per share. The holding company for First Financial Bank posted revenue of $84.6 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $63.1 million, surpassing Street forecasts. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights ( using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on THFF at Sign in to access your portfolio
The Guardian
13-07-2025
- The Guardian
Death of man in Indiana jail highlights cruelty of solitary confinement: ‘A national disgrace'
Through the tinny reception on the jail's phone lines, 29-year-old Adam Bryant told his mom he didn't want to die. It was late 2022, and Bryant was incarcerated at Vigo county jail in Terre Haute, Indiana, a city roughly 75 miles west of Indianapolis. Bryant had been arrested for domestic battery on 8 December, and for most of the time between then and the 19 December phone call, he'd been unable to eat without vomiting. He had severe stomach pains, too, which only worsened when he was attacked and beaten. Some of his inmates had heard about his battery charge, and they wanted the ring Bryant was wearing. 'You're either gonna take care of yourself or they will let you die there,' his mother told him. Shortly after fighting with other inmates, Bryant was placed in solitary confinement, where he spent the last five days of his life with minimal human interaction. His condition worsened: he shed more weight, became more fatigued, and even started hallucinating. Video footage shows staff members checking on other inmates while paying little attention to Bryant. That same video evidence contradicts the jail's claims that Bryant received his medication and prescribed protein shake on the final day of his life. (Vigo county officials did not respond to questions for this story.) As the clock approached midnight on Christmas Eve, he sat on the floor of his solitary cell and tried to reach the intercom button that would alert the staff that he needed help. He managed to press it, but most of his attempts were in vain; his arms were simply too weak. Shortly after midnight, he died of hyponatremia – low sodium concentration in the blood. His death – and the neglect that preceded – is at the center of a new lawsuit, as Bryant's family sues several employees of the Vigo county jail and sheriff's office for violating his constitutional rights. His traumatic final days also highlight the cruelty and dangers of solitary confinement or 'restrictive housing', a practice of isolating people that has long been decried by advocates, attorneys and mental health professionals. The practice became more popular in the US in the 1980s and 1990s, as the prison population soared and overpopulation became more common, leading to a new reliance on isolated units. Now, despite a growing mountain of evidence and repeated reform attempts, the practice continues, creating massive trauma for families across the US. Matthew Lowen, an associate director of the Vera Institute's Restoring Promise Initiative, says experts generally agree that somewhere between 75,000 and 80,000 people are locked in solitary confinement in the US on any given day. But no one knows the exact number, in part because of lax oversight and the many forms of isolation employed by jails and prisons. '[Solitary confinement] continues to grow in the sense that there's new facilities that are being built and designed specifically for the use of isolation in near-total cell confinement,' Lowen said. 'But then there's also sort of the ad hoc or unofficial forms of isolation or solitary confinement lockdowns, where it's either staff shortages or facility lockdowns for a myriad of reasons, and that could just result in people not being let out of their cells.' Research indicates solitary confinement is particularly traumatic for people who enter incarceration struggling with their mental health or an addiction. Bryant was struggling with both. Two days before his 8 December arrest, he asked a therapist for help getting into rehab. Solitary confinement can often be fatal for people struggling with mental illness, and any amount of time spent in isolated conditions increases the risk of death after release, according to a study by the Jama Network. The study notes that people were 24% more likely to die within their first year out of jail or prison – and 127% more likely to die from an opioid overdose in the first two weeks after release. 'The real abandonment of people with mental health challenges in this country is just a national disgrace,' said Jean Casella, director of the non-profit Solitary Watch. 'The people who are unhoused, the people with mental illness who are on the streets, those are the same people who are going to end up in jail eventually in the prison systems eventually. And they are way more likely to land in solitary.' Casella's organization was born from the lack of significant oversight of solitary confinement. She and her team have spent years documenting how isolated treatment like what Bryant experienced does not make people safer (including guards and corrections officers). In many facilities where the use of solitary confinement has been reduced or eliminated, violent incidents have decreased. Additionally, Casella notes that putting people in isolation presents new roadblocks to one of the purported intents of the criminal justice system: rehabilitation. 'Maintaining contact with family and loved ones has been shown to be one of the most effective ways of not only maintaining sort of order in prison, but also easing people's transitions and re-entry back into society,' Casella said. 'It's totally destructive to cut off those connections.' There are also significant roadblocks to reforming this practice. The Biden administration promised reductions in the use of solitary confinement, but Casella says it didn't create significant change. Biden's administration poured millions more dollars into studying 'restrictive housing', despite the wealth of studies already in existence. Between 2019 and 2024, the number of people in solitary confinement increased. Politics has become one of the biggest roadblocks to meaningful reform. Earlier this year, in New York, more than 11,000 New York prison guards launched a strike that, in part, demanded the rollback of the Halt Act, which capped isolation at 15 days and banned its use on vulnerable groups. In response, Governor Kathy Hochul suspended parts of the law for 90 days and deployed the national guard. Advocates condemned the rollback as a dangerous return to the inhumanity of the pre-Halt days, and a judge reversed the rollback on 2 July. Casella added that, with Trump in office, it was unlikely that significant reforms would happen at the federal level, increasing the importance of state and local battles. She's hoping to see more reform-minded candidates win those races and push for incarceration models in line with the Scandinavian approach, which promotes education, job training, therapy and mental health support, as well as family visits and reintegration programs. Organizations like Lowen's have had success with humane approaches to incarceration. In 2017, the Vera Institute's Restoring Promise Initiative partnered with the Connecticut department of correction to transform a unit at Cheshire correctional institution – once a 22-hour lockdown maximum-security facility – into a mentorship-based, dignity-centered space for young adults. The result: 'We eliminated violence on that unit,' said Lowen. Incidents dropped across the prison, showing that training and restorative practices can work. 'The bottom line really is that it doesn't make people living or working inside prisons or jails any safer,' Lowen said. 'It doesn't make the community safer, and in fact, it could actually contribute to folks being less safe.' The experts interviewed for this story said Bryant's case was a clear example of how solitary confinement is often unnecessary and needlessly cruel. On that 19 December phone call with his mother, he asked her not to tell his father about what he was experiencing. She told him she wouldn't, then she encouraged him to stay strong. 'Oh Adam, I'm so sorry,' she said, fighting back tears. 'I love you.' 'I love you, too,' he said before hanging up.
The Guardian
12-07-2025
- The Guardian
Death of man in Indiana jail highlights cruelty of solitary confinement: ‘A national disgrace'
Through the tinny reception on the jail's phone lines, 29-year-old Adam Bryant told his mom he didn't want to die. It was late 2022, and Bryant was incarcerated at Vigo county jail in Terre Haute, Indiana, a city roughly 75 miles west of Indianapolis. Bryant had been arrested for domestic battery on 8 December, and for most of the time between then and the 19 December phone call, he'd been unable to eat without vomiting. He had severe stomach pains, too, which only worsened when he was attacked and beaten. Some of his inmates had heard about his battery charge, and they wanted the ring Bryant was wearing. 'You're either gonna take care of yourself or they will let you die there,' his mother told him. Shortly after fighting with other inmates, Bryant was placed in solitary confinement, where he spent the last five days of his life with minimal human interaction. His condition worsened: he shed more weight, became more fatigued, and even started hallucinating. Video footage shows staff members checking on other inmates while paying little attention to Bryant. That same video evidence contradicts the jail's claims that Bryant received his medication and prescribed protein shake on the final day of his life. (Vigo county officials did not respond to questions for this story.) As the clock approached midnight on Christmas Eve, he sat on the floor of his solitary cell and tried to reach the intercom button that would alert the staff that he needed help. He managed to press it, but most of his attempts were in vain; his arms were simply too weak. Shortly after midnight, he died of hyponatremia – low sodium concentration in the blood. His death – and the neglect that preceded – is at the center of a new lawsuit, as Bryant's family sues several employees of the Vigo county jail and sheriff's office for violating his constitutional rights. His traumatic final days also highlight the cruelty and dangers of solitary confinement or 'restrictive housing', a practice of isolating people that has long been decried by advocates, attorneys and mental health professionals. The practice became more popular in the US in the 1980s and 1990s, as the prison population soared and overpopulation became more common, leading to a new reliance on isolated units. Now, despite a growing mountain of evidence and repeated reform attempts, the practice continues, creating massive trauma for families across the US. Matthew Lowen, an associate director of the Vera Institute's Restoring Promise Initiative, says experts generally agree that somewhere between 75,000 and 80,000 people are locked in solitary confinement in the US on any given day. But no one knows the exact number, in part because of lax oversight and the many forms of isolation employed by jails and prisons. '[Solitary confinement] continues to grow in the sense that there's new facilities that are being built and designed specifically for the use of isolation in near-total cell confinement,' Lowen said. 'But then there's also sort of the ad hoc or unofficial forms of isolation or solitary confinement lockdowns, where it's either staff shortages or facility lockdowns for a myriad of reasons, and that could just result in people not being let out of their cells.' Research indicates solitary confinement is particularly traumatic for people who enter incarceration struggling with their mental health or an addiction. Bryant was struggling with both. Two days before his 8 December arrest, he asked a therapist for help getting into rehab. Solitary confinement can often be fatal for people struggling with mental illness, and any amount of time spent in isolated conditions increases the risk of death after release, according to a study by the Jama Network. The study notes that people were 24% more likely to die within their first year out of jail or prison – and 127% more likely to die from an opioid overdose in the first two weeks after release. 'The real abandonment of people with mental health challenges in this country is just a national disgrace,' said Jean Casella, director of the non-profit Solitary Watch. 'The people who are unhoused, the people with mental illness who are on the streets, those are the same people who are going to end up in jail eventually in the prison systems eventually. And they are way more likely to land in solitary.' Casella's organization was born from the lack of significant oversight of solitary confinement. She and her team have spent years documenting how isolated treatment like what Bryant experienced does not make people safer (including guards and corrections officers). In many facilities where the use of solitary confinement has been reduced or eliminated, violent incidents have decreased. Additionally, Casella notes that putting people in isolation presents new roadblocks to one of the purported intents of the criminal justice system: rehabilitation. 'Maintaining contact with family and loved ones has been shown to be one of the most effective ways of not only maintaining sort of order in prison, but also easing people's transitions and re-entry back into society,' Casella said. 'It's totally destructive to cut off those connections.' There are also significant roadblocks to reforming this practice. The Biden administration promised reductions in the use of solitary confinement, but Casella says it didn't create significant change. Biden's administration poured millions more dollars into studying 'restrictive housing', despite the wealth of studies already in existence. Between 2019 and 2024, the number of people in solitary confinement increased. Politics has become one of the biggest roadblocks to meaningful reform. Earlier this year, in New York, more than 11,000 New York prison guards launched a strike that, in part, demanded the rollback of the Halt Act, which capped isolation at 15 days and banned its use on vulnerable groups. In response, Governor Kathy Hochul suspended parts of the law for 90 days and deployed the national guard. Advocates condemned the rollback as a dangerous return to the inhumanity of the pre-Halt days, and a judge reversed the rollback on 2 July. Casella added that, with Trump in office, it was unlikely that significant reforms would happen at the federal level, increasing the importance of state and local battles. She's hoping to see more reform-minded candidates win those races and push for incarceration models in line with the Scandinavian approach, which promotes education, job training, therapy and mental health support, as well as family visits and reintegration programs. Organizations like Lowen's have had success with humane approaches to incarceration. In 2017, the Vera Institute's Restoring Promise Initiative partnered with the Connecticut department of correction to transform a unit at Cheshire correctional institution – once a 22-hour lockdown maximum-security facility – into a mentorship-based, dignity-centered space for young adults. The result: 'We eliminated violence on that unit,' said Lowen. Incidents dropped across the prison, showing that training and restorative practices can work. 'The bottom line really is that it doesn't make people living or working inside prisons or jails any safer,' Lowen said. 'It doesn't make the community safer, and in fact, it could actually contribute to folks being less safe.' The experts interviewed for this story said Bryant's case was a clear example of how solitary confinement is often unnecessary and needlessly cruel. On that 19 December phone call with his mother, he asked her not to tell his father about what he was experiencing. She told him she wouldn't, then she encouraged him to stay strong. 'Oh Adam, I'm so sorry,' she said, fighting back tears. 'I love you.' 'I love you, too,' he said before hanging up.
