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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.

Cheers for the University of Evansville's student athletes and the UE athletic department for its academic performance.

When Martin and Ashley Neighbors discovered they were having twins, the Evansville couple knew they wanted at least one parent to stay home with their daughters.

The IU School of Medicine currently offers two years of study based in Evansville.

Julianne Malveaux said Women's Equality Day is not really a celebration. Instead it is a commemoration, because women still aren't equal.

A judge has replaced one of the jurors in the death penalty trial of a southwestern Indiana man charged with setting a 2010 fire that killed his fiance's two children.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Evansville, Ind., Bosse standout guard JaQuan Lyle told media at the NBA Players Association Camp on Thursday night that he had narrowed his list to four schools.

The Evansville Otters turned five double plays while beating the host Lake Erie Crushers 3-2 on Thursday night in a Frontier League baseball game.