Henderson News

Independence Bank and the Downtown Henderson Partnership are planning the 4th of July celebration for Henderson and the surrounding communities.

She's in Kentucky visiting a friend who lives near Mammoth Cave. The friend has been raving about the Handy Festival, so they decided to travel to Audubon Mill Park in Henderson on Saturday to enjoy the music.

Alfred Savia already knew the guest pianist for the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra 's season opener would come with sterling, international credentials.

In my opinion, the price of gas in Henderson is greatly inflated. Facebook pages have been filled with complaints concerning this matter for the last several weeks.

Henderson Chamber of Commerce President Brad Schneider said Thursday that the business organization's proposal to revise city alcohol-related ordinances isn't intended to turn family-friendly festivals into open bars.

Local folks are being asked to pitch in with efforts to benefit the families of seven children who lost their lives when a tornado destroyed Plaza Towers Elementary in Moore, Okla.

Weekly sessions will include an introduction to policing and HPD; training, fitness and healthy living; basic criminal law, emergency preparedness, patrol operations, criminal and drug investigations, crime scene investigations and home safety.

A Henderson County deputy sheriff was shot in the crotch back in 1902 while attempting to keep the peace between union miners from Evansville and nonunion miners at Spottsville.

The W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival is known as a hot ticket in Henderson, but Wednesday will really be scorching according to the National Weather Service in Paducah.

The state has awarded a contract for repaving U.S. 60-East in Henderson among other area road projects this summer.

Photo courtesy of Henderson County Public Library Schoolteacher Mary Towles Sasseen in 1887 first observed Mother's Day, beginning with her pupils at the old Center Street School at Center and Green streets, and obtained national observance in 1893.

A Henderson County deputy sheriff was shot in the crotch back in 1902 while attempting to keep the peace between union miners from Evansville and non-union miners at Spottsville.

Mike Lawrence/The Gleaner Susan McVicar celebrates after being named the 2012 Ooh-Pee-Doo at Saturday's William Branaman Street Strut People's Parade that kicked off the 2012 W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival in Henderson.

More union members offered themselves up for arrest in another demonstration of civil disobedience in the union's fight with Patriot, Peabody, and Arch Coal UMWA President Cecil Roberts is loaded into a paddy wagon in Kentucky.

Revlett is a disabled veterans outreach program specialist for the Green River area.

On Saturday, June 01, 2013 at 9:43 a.m. the Kentucky State Police, Post 11 London, was notified by personnel at the Federal Correctional Institution in Manchester, KY of a vistor that had entered the complex with contraband.

A juvenile male reported to police that he was robbed at gunpoint by three individuals while parked at Calvary Baptist Church at 2360 Green River Road at about 8 p.m. Saturday.

The United Mine Workers of America is planning a protest in western Kentucky over Patriot Coal Corp.'s move to end its contract and reduce wages and benefits for active union members.

For Henderson, you could call it a $30 million day. During an afternoon of announcements by Gov.

James Andrew Blackston, 24, of the 200 block of Shenandoah Place, was arrested on May 21 after his infant son was admitted to St.