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In the seven years since a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the neck down, Ben Trockman has stopped paying attention to stares from strangers, or at least he's stopped being bothered by them.

Courtesy of Aaron Lewis Aaron Lewis, lead singer of Staind, will perform material off his new country record Sunday at The Victory.

Rehearsing 14 hours a day, crisscrossing the country on tour buses and sleeping on school gymnasium floors - best summer ever.

Babel Bar & Lounge executive chef Chase Adam McNeely, center, prepares sushi for server, Dylan Skinner, left, to take to customers while sous chef Logan Scott, right, cleans dishes on Friday.

Hospital system spokeswoman Laura Forbes told the Courier & Press late Tuesday that 73 positions will be eliminated - 61 full-time employees, and 12 part-timers.

By the time Kendra LaSalle-Winburn was named Central High School's homecoming queen in 2004, she knew the pageant life was for her.

The book will be a patchwork of stories, tiny snapshots of life that when painted together with copies of property titles, marriage licenses and other historical documents, make up the sum history of Williams' family - his personal story.

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.