Henderson News

These workshops will show participants how to store information for free on the Internet, video chat with friends and family and save money by using free office suite software on your computer.

It might be too soon to say that there's nothing but blue skies ahead for the fledgling city-county Henderson Recycling curbside pickup project.

Local students have another opportunity to give back to the community thanks to a gift from the Henderson Water and Sewer Commission.

Tara Coomes, 59, Henderson, was transported to Methodist Hospital and later transferred to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville.

Within a decade span in the late 1960s and '70s the Henderson City Commission passed five alcohol-related ordinances which, nearly a half-century ago, were apparently viewed as necessary, but in 2013 should be due for extinction because they are woefully outdated or were based on state laws that have long since been amended.

This year's free workshop will take place at 1 p.m. June 6. The planning organization for the W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival has announced the scheduled for the 24th-annual festival that opens June 8 in downtown Henderson.

As the sun set Friday, authorities were still looking for an escaped Henderson County Detention Center inmate who went missing from the jail that morning.

Henderson Community College, in partnership with Owensboro Community and Technical College, with funding provided by a grant from the National Science Foundation, will hold a Lego Summer Academy next month.

May is National Bike Month - a perfect time for our community Henderson, Ky., to recognize and celebrate all the benefits of bicycling.

The Family Foundation has filed response briefs with the Kentucky Supreme Court laying out its argument for allowing discovery in the instant racing case.

Photographs by JASON CLARK / COURIER & PRESS LPGA golfer Pernilla Lindberg hits a drive off the first tee for participants in the Deaconess Classic for Women's Health on Monday at Evansville Country Club.

United Way of Henderson County's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program was honored for its work earlier this month in Owensboro at the Green River Asset Building Coalition Volunteer Appreciation Banquet.

Darrin Phegley / The Gleaner Scott Davis accepts the award for Citizen of the Year at the annual Chamber awards Thursday night, May 9, 2013.

The Depot Community Room and the River Heritage Day Committee will host the third-annual River Heritage Day this Saturday on the downtown Henderson riverfront.

One of three design consultant firms affiliated with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will work on the renovation of the old Cadiz Masonic Lodge.

Photographs by KEVIN SWANK / Courier & Press Sean McGruder deals with the mud as he moves another raised bed garden form in place at the East End Community Garden at 1016 Washington St.

Remember when Madonna, while filming "A League of Their Own" here in 1991, likened Evansville to Prague? Just goes to show how much she knows about the culture of the Czech Republic.

After 40 years away, the Henderson, Ky., native and lifelong member of the United Church of Christ has returned to take on the job as Associate Conference Minister for the Indiana/Kentucky Conference of the United Church of Christ.

Crushing a mammoth three-run homer into a tree beyond the left field fence, he set the tone for an offensive explosion that carried the Henderson County Colonels to a 16-5 victory in five innings.

For one of the few times since it opened in 1985, some motorists are going to have to act as though the Kentucky 425/South Bypass doesn't exist.