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Weather permitting, spray trucks will be in operation tonight and Thursday. Spraying tonight will be in the area south of Covert Avenue, north of Pollack Avenue, east of Seasons Ridge Boulevard and west of Capella Avenue.

Photgraphs by KEVIN SWANK / Courier & Press Emergency personnel work to free a person from a wrecked car following a wreck Monday afternoon between two semi trucks and at least one car in the westbound lanes of I-64 about one mile east of U.S. 41. It took emergency responders two hours and 20 minutes to extricate the man from his car following the ... (more)

An Indiana State Police officer wounded in an exchange of gunfire with a would-be robber Monday afternoon at a Montgomery, Ind., gun shop has been released from Deaconess Hospital at Evansville.

It took a Clark County jury less than two hours to find Jeffrey Weisheit guilty of killing two Evansville children by binding them with duct tape and setting their house on fire.

There is a risk of disruptive and locally damaging thunderstorms from southern Illinois to southern Indiana, southern Ohio and northern Kentucky into Tuesday evening.

As a part of the construction, the driving lane of U.S. 41 northbound, the passing lane of U.S. 41 southbound and Rusher Creek Road on the east side of U.S. 41 will all be closed near the intersection.

Westbound lanes of Interstate 64 are closed near mile marker 25 as authorities respond to a wreck involving three semi trucks.

Erin Daly, a seventh-grade student at Castle South Middle School , won first place in the 2013 Indiana Money Smart Kid Essay Contest.

Evidon's protests that he was punched by an Evansville police officer who was arresting him early Sunday morning spread across Facebook and other social media prompting a police news conference Monday to refute his allegations.

The proposed project - located west of Burkhardt Road - comes after the Louisville-based Scheller's first brought a store to the city's East Side, at 5625 E. Virginia St., late last year.

LEFT: Market Street Living, a development by the Kunkel Group, is a group of high-end, independent and assisted living apartments in Downtown Evansville.

The Storm Shield app acts like a NOAA Emergency Weather Radio on your iPhone or Android.

MOLLY BARTELS / COURIER PRESS Peggy Overby practices Tai Chi at Washington Square Mall.

Aiyana Cooper, 3, blows bubbles as she hangs out under a tent waiting for a rain shower to pass at the Evansville AMVETS post 84 Family Picnic at Howell Park Shelter House on Sunday.

The big story 75 years ago this week involved continued misery for the poor and unemployed during the Great Depression.

Photographs by MOLLY BARTELS / COURIER & PRESS "It was fun to interact with the sculptures and to get up close and look at them from different sides," said Maria Spriggs, right, who photographs part of John Anderson-Bricker's "The Long Toss," with Nathan Roberts, left, during the Sculpt EVV event near Haynie's Corner in Evansville on Saturday.

Former Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel wasn't pleased when City Council Finance Chairman John Friend asserted last week that the current administration "inherited a mess" on the issue of bank reconciliations.

DENNY SIMMONS / Courier Press Evansville police Detective Sara Hilsmeyer, left center, investigates a shooting in the 500 block of South Denby Avenue that left one man dead at about 7 p.m. Sunday.

Sister Jane Nesmith, outgoing pastoral life coordinator for St. John the Apostle Catholic Curch, will read from her book "Feeding the Multitude: My 17 Years in Evansville," Saturday, as part of the 2013 Juneteenth Day Celebration at the Evansville African American Museum .

While I join the dining club in sampling restaurant across the region twice each month, Lorenzo's had become more of a home base for me.