Petersburg News

With outstretched arms and legs posed mid-stride, "Runner" is a 23-foot-tall stainless steel outdoor sculpture that may soon symbolize Indiana State University's new Student Recreation Center.

Solar Sources, Inc. of P.O. Box 7; Petersburg, IN 47567; is submitting a Notice of Intent letter to notify the Indiana Department of Environmental Management of their intent to comply with the requirement under 327 IAC 15-7 to discharge wastewater associated with the mining of coal, coal processing and/or reclamation activities.

Former Washington residents, Ed and Kathy Stuffle, 4899 S. Woodbine Drive, Bloomington, celebrated their 40th anniversary April 26.

ERIN McCRACKEN / Courier & Press Bill Henderson sits and talks with his wife, Kathe Henderson, 56, who has multiple sclerosis, in the hallway of Golden Living Center in Petersburg, Ind., last week.

Thursday afternoon, a Pike County Grand Jury indicted former Petersburg Police Chief Joe Hill, 38, and his girlfriend, Andrea R. Hoffman, 33, both of 107 Walnut St., Petersburg.

A grand jury has indicted Petersburg's former police chief and his girlfriend on charges stemming from the use of the police department's computer to illegally obtain prescription pain medication.

A Pike County family is facing deportation, but a lot of people want them to stay right where they are.

Barbara Earle, 57, was arrested by Indiana State Police at a friend's residence at 1705 Pollack Ave.

Solar Sources, Inc.; P.O. Box 7; Petersburg, IN 47567, has filed an application for the Cannelburg Mine to renew the permit for another five years.

William Edmiston and Mary Jane Edmiston of Washington announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Leslie Michelle Edmiston, to Adam Keith Thompson, son of Mark Thompson and Jeanie and Jerry Guth of Petersburg.

A 2007 National Geographic News article states that in 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed the carbon dioxide ice caps near Mars' south pole had diminished three summers in a row.

BOB GWALTNEY / Courier & Press Arron Schmitt of Boonville, Ind., carries his prize Thursday while attending the Holiday World & Splashin' Safari "Play Day" in Santa Claus, Ind.

PETERSBURG, Ind. - The face of former baseball great Gil Hodges is now looking out on his southern Indiana hometown.

Weisheit Hog Farms, Inc. has been bracing themselves for the worst since first hearing about the swine flu.

Gil Hodges isn't yet enshrined in Cooperstown, but he's still a hero in his hometown of Petersburg, Ind.

Candace Crow, 18, of 204 S. Second St., and Thomas Tyler Cannon, 21, of 6835 N. County Road 350 East were arrested without incident at their residences.

EVANSVILLE'S CHILDREN CHOIR'S SPRING CONCERT will be at 4 p.m. today in Neu Chapel on the University of Evansville campus.

It's beginning to look a lot like Opening Day is near at Holiday World & Spashin' Safari! Watch as the finishing touches are being made on the World's Tallest Water Ride .. Pilgrims Plunge.

When the University of Southern Indiana Center for Applied Research tackles a project, it engages nearly all the university's resources, including its faculty, students and staff.

This morning, April 7, Pike County Circuit Court Judge Jeff Biesterveld sentenced Bryan Cowan, 42, of Huntingburg, to serve 30 years in the Indiana Department of Corrections for molesting a 12-year-old girl during 2004 and 2005.