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Greg Wathen, president and chief executive officer of the Economic Development Coalition of Southwest Indiana, has been living with that feeling all week.

The pass rate on the reading exam for students in the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp.

Aimee Blume / Special to The Courier & Press Nothing enhances fresh berries like a rich sauce of whipped cream and mascarpone cheese embellished with your favorite cream liqueur.

A local woman is accused of acting as a midwife without a license following the death of a newborn in December.

A southwestern Indiana woman has been arrested after state police say she acted as an unlicensed midwife for an infant who died the day after she was born.

Mount Vernon High School graduate Cole McDonough may feel a twinge of anxiety before he steps before the judges who will decide who will be the next "man out front" of The Ohio State University Marching Band.

A Mount Vernon woman has been charged with three counts of animal cruelty following the deaths of two pit bull puppies and a kitten that were left in an apartment without food or water for more than two months, according to the SPCA of Westchester.

Legislation set to be signed into law by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Tuesday will make money available to schools to hire resource officers - specially trained staff whose jobs are about far more than keeping students safe from outside threats.

MOLLY BARTELS / COURIER & PRESS The 2013 Star Student Award banquet was held at the Bauerhaus in Evansville on Sunday, May 5, 2013.

Sunshine, clear skies, warm temperatures and just a slight breeze provided a perfect setting for the inaugural edition of the 2013 series of First Fridays in downtown Mount Vernon yesterday evening.

The first of many award ceremonies for the current academic year at Mount Vernon High School took place Thursday evening at the high school cafeteria when the Kiwanis Club of Mount Vernon conducted their 51st annual scholastic recognition program.

The Wolfgang Orchestra and Chorus, an 84-member ensemble based in Mount Vernon, Ind., will open a three-concert spring schedule this week.

Marrs, which rebranded as a STEM Academy two years ago, purchased six ActivTables, one for each grade level that were introduced to students last week.

CTB/McGraw-Hill, the vendor hired by the state to administer the test, announced in a message posted on its website about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday that "systems are ready to go." However the message also asked that schools decrease their daily test load to 50 percent of normal levels until further notice to allow flexibility in the online system's ... (more)

Next Saturday and May 5, the Southwestern Indiana Master Gardener Association will offer its annual plant sale at the Vanderburgh County 4-H Center.

Authorities arrested an Evansville man who is suspected of robbing a Mount Vernon, Ind., residence earlier this week on Thursday.

Tina Laemmie will be featured at a book-signing on Wednesday, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Colonial Books, 521 S. Main St., Mount Vernon.

After four years in the post, Pam Ewell resigned as superintendent of the Mount Vernon Community School District during a regular meeting that stretched late into Monday evening.