Evansville News Archives

A man who has spent pretty much his entire adult life teaching kids the fundamentals of baseball was honored Sunday at the East Youth Baseball fields in Evansville.

Authorities say up to 40 summer school students were involved in a fight at Evansville's Central High School.

An Evansville man is arrested in Harrison County, Indiana on attempted rape and burglary charges.

Timothy Hudson, 47, was lodged in the Vanderburgh County Jail on a count of felony domestic battery in the presence of a child when he made the accusations about Dana Southers, according to an Evansville Police Department affidavit.

Two 19-year-olds from Evansville are accused of using guns to rob some high school students this week.

Clean-up to areas of Evansville contaminated by lead will be one of the largest, widespread clean-ups in the nation according to the EPA.

An Evansville man will spend a decade in federal prison for traveling to the Kansas City area thinking he would have sex with two young children.

The mayor of Evansville says he's made a mistake, and now he's apologizing for it.

Police responding to a report of "shots fired" near Green River Road and Covert Avenue early this morning wound up making one drug arrest at an apartment whose door had been kicked in.

A new study finds that healthy infants seem to have a similar tolerance for standard and hypoallergenic formulas -- suggesting that most parents need not make the expensive anti-allergy formulas their first choice.

A Vanderburgh County inmate was injured Sunday after falling about 10 feet to the concrete floor from the mezzanine level of his assigned housing unit at the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center.

A Washington man is in an Evansville hospital recovering from a weekend stabbing.

A bicyclist fractured his foot Wednesday after riding into a semi and then getting run over by its rear wheel.

Kentucky State Police say a father and his 4-year-old daughter were killed and 2 of his sons injured during a house fire in Morganfield.

An alleged drug dealer has featured in a crazy police mugshot after being arrested midway through a haircut.

A U.S. Army soldier from Colorado was arrested on a military desertion warrant Wednesday at a hotel near U.S. 41 and Interstate 64.

Police arrested an Iowa man Wednesday after discovering more than 85 pounds of marijuana in the bed of his pickup truck, according to a probable cause affidavit.

An intoxicated driver is also facing a preliminary charge of child neglect because he had his 13-year-old son in the vehicle with him, according to police documents.

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An Evansville man has been arrested on criminal mischief and invasion of privacy charges for allegedly violating a restraining order, threatening a local family and throwing a brick through their bedroom window.

Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel has a new role coming up - that of the "victim" in a murder-mystery dinner party.

Police tell Heartland News a man who broke into a home Tuesday night in rural Elizabethtown got quite a surprise.

When Jeff W. Dike bought land near the Evansville Regional Airport, he hadn't heard of plans to extend the main runway.

Evansville police are investigating a shooting which occurred at 3:56 a.m. when one car pulled up next to another in the 800 block of Covert Avenue and gunfire erupted.

There will be walkers, runners and food Saturday at Casino Aztar's Events Plaza.

A 33-year-old Evansville man is being held in the Vanderburgh County jail on two counts of child molesting.

Twelve Evansville neighborhoods are on the U.S. EPA's target list. The federal agency says thousands of homes may have high amounts of lead in their backyards and the feds want to remove it.

Millions of dollars cut from the city's budget and the Evansville Police Department tells us the department is taking the biggest hit.

A 21-year-old Evansville man was shot in the hand Sunday afternoon as he wrestled with a man he was trying to rob, authorities said.

An Evansville woman has been arrested after police found her two small children living in a filthy home.

Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez will be in Evansville Thursday on a listening tour where he will be exploring a possible bid for Indiana Governor in 2012.

Two Evansville men were arrested Thursday morning during a drug bust. Evansville Police said they arrested 23-year-old Corey Simpson and 21-year-old Ricardo Torain after a SWAT team raid of a Washington Avenue apartment.

Evansville police are looking for a woman they say hit a baby in the head with a beer can.

The tour, which starts Tuesday, includes an eclectic mix of cities. Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit, yes - but also Evansville, Fargo, N.D.; Duluth, Minn.; Lincoln Neb.; Louisville, Ky., and Asheville, N.C. "I wanted to go to places that I'd never been to before," Sedaris said last week during a phone interview from a New York City hotel.

A Monday morning residential fire on Evansville's South Side is being investigated as an arson.