Owensboro News

DENNY SIMMONS / Courier & Press The Blue Bridge connecting Owensboro, Ky., to Indiana's Spencer County.

Those figures put the western Kentucky police department above the national averages of 48 percent for violent crime and 19 percent for property crimes.

A federal grand jury this week indicted three Henderson County residents in connection with 10 bank robberies which have occurred in three counties during the last several years.

A Daviess County man was arrested on charges related to child exploitation after Kentucky State Police served a search warrant at his Owensboro home on Tuesday.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 13--Owensboro-area businesses and leaders have mixed feelings about the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 that passed the U.S. Senate on May 6 by a 69-27 vote.

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.

If we're honest, when most of us see those young, clean-cut Mormon missionaries knocking on doors, we quickly assume that the hip, relevant, "just show up" youth ministry strategies in our Protestant circles are vastly superior.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The NCAA basketball rules committee has wrapped up its most recent round of talks with more tweaks.It didn't reduce the shot clock, but it did try to streamline the video review Who has the better 2014 football recruiting class -- Kentucky or Louisville? How did Nazr Mohammed feel the day after shoving LeBron James? Peyton Siva ... (more)

Owensboro Community & Technical College will host two free day camps for middle and high school students this summer.

OWENSBORO, KY - Jason Koger's story has been shared before. Most recently 14 News talked to him back in February when his arms were on an episode of Hawaii 5-0 Jason says this new technology he's using is the latest step in what he calls an amazing journey.

The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reports Daviess is part of the nine-county Bluegrass, Blues and Barbecue region, which saw $310 million in direct spending last year, a 4.4 percent increase.

The 34-year-old married father of three from Owensboro, Ky., lost his hands five years ago in an all-terrain vehicle accident.

Belcher of Pleasant Ridge, Ky., left, and Arnold Helms of Fordsville swap stories from their oil drilling days.$RETURN$$RETURN$ "Everything sells as-is and where-is," auctioneer Jim Knott said as he laid out the rules for the annual city of Owensboro surplus equipment auction at the Owensboro Sportscenter.

Jason Koger lost his hands in an all-terrain vehicle accident in Kentucky in 2008, waking from a coma three days later to find his arms amputated at mid-limb. The 34-year-old married father of three this week recalled his ordeal while testing a new phase of development in the i-limb ultra revolution, manufactured by Touch Bionics of the United ... (more)

Donna B. Stinnett/The Gleaner A water feature at the Western Kentucky Botanical Garden in Owensboro contains a school of colorful koi and goldfish.$RETURN$$RETURN$ With every growing season, "The Garden" gets a little bit fuller, a little bit lusher, a little bit more interesting.

A Christians-only health care plan that had been banned in Kentucky could resume operations in the state next month, unless officials at the Department of Insurance opt to continue a decade-long legal fight.

Double amputee Jason Koger, 34, of Owensboro, Ky., demonstrates his i-limb ultra revolution hands during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Philadelphia.

Good Shepherd Church member Jeff Love uses a gas-powered cultivator to prepare the soil in his portion of the church's garden Wednesday afternoon, May, 1, 2013 in Owensboro, Ky.

With all three pieces of Wes and Sara Carter's two-story home rigged up and ready to roll on Kentucky 279, Daviess County Sheriff's Department deputies, utility crews in place, a crew from Wolfe House Movers prepares to begin the 10-mile move to a site on Boothfield Road near Ben Hawes Park Wednesday evening, May 1, 2013 in Owensboro, Ky.

A contractor for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet plans a traffic shift for westbound traffic on the Audubon Parkway in Daviess County starting Friday morning, May 3. Westbound traffic entering the Audubon Parkway from U.S. 60 at Owensboro will be moved to a crossover about one-quarter mile west of the U.S. 60 interchange starting sometime ... (more)