Evansville News

If you thought efforts to consolidate local government had slowed down in the recent legislative session, you would be wrong.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. Indiana State Excise Police officers serving a search warrant at an Evansville store seized 1,175 bootleg DVD's this afternoon.

Four people were hurt in what Indiana State Police say was a high speed crash in Spencer County just before 2 a.m. Tuesday.

Blake McLeod, also known as "Mr. Bubbles" pouring samples for Jhance and Deanne Whitemere of Evansville, Ind.

The University of Evansville in Indiana is proud to announce that multiple local students graduated during UE's 155th Commencement, held Saturday, May 4, at the Ford Center in downtown Evansville.

"I feel like this is one of those laws, where I know they mean well by doing something like this, but it's like gun control: The guns are there and the alcohol is there, and it's up to the person to act responsibly," said Carl, the owner of Leroy's Tavern, located on the West Side.

DENNY SIMMONS / Courier & Press The Indiana Patriot Guard Riders, led by senior ride captain Rick Williams, center, begin their annual Ride to Remember at the grave of Cpl.

For a business or commercial property owner, getting your building and property to conform with the Americans With Disabilities Act might seem like a process of obeying the law - and it is.

The Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra returned to the world of Science Fiction for the theme of this week's pops concert.

The Dubois County Sheriff's Department says Trenton Duncan of Evansville, was driving southbound on U.S. 231 just south of Witz Road.

In May of 2012 it was announced that Evansville was going to create a park on the old Kenny Kent property downtown.

While it would be easy to pile on Lloyd Winnecke over the upcoming and massive sewer infrastructure project, as some are attempting, let's not forget that this mess can be traced back more than five decades through multiple city administrations.

Volunteering: I spent 37 years serving our country in one capacity or another, and now I serve my community through the Rotary Club and First Lutheran Church.

The eastbound lanes of Veterans Memorial Parkway are closed between Waterworks Road and U.S. 41.

Evansville Day School shows a slight downward trend of graduates dipping from 92.3 percent in 2009 to 90.9 percent in 2012.

In March, Jack Perkins III, 28, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to child molesting, a Class A felony, and criminal confinement, a Class B felony.

Zachary McCloud, 35, faces felony charges of battery with a deadly weapon, resisting law enforcement, battery resulting in bodily injury and criminal mischief; as well as four counts of criminal mischief as a misdemeanor and resisting law enforcement as a misdemeanor.

Photographs by DENNY SIMMONS / Courier Press G. William Monaghan, Ph.D., offers students from South Middle School in Henderson, Ky., a lesson Friday morning in using carbon dating to find out how old the mounds at Angel Mounds State Historic Site are.

No rain officially fell at the Evansville Regional Airport on Thursday, the first full day that the National Weather Service had advised that scattered showers or storms could be possible.

Defense attorney John Brinson argued Friday in Vanderburgh Circuit Court that 24-year-old Naquan Powell did not have any weapons or explosives when he was arrested and was not a threat.