Vernon News

Liquid fuel sales for Indiana-based CountryMark were up 5 percent in 2008. This past year, CountryMark sold 472 million gallons of liquid fuels and energy products.

A North Vernon man is recovering after being shot by police following a SWAT stand-off Friday night.

The Naval Sea Systems Command's Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, IN awarded four small businesses a $49.9 million multiple award indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract to supply machine shop services used for the fabrication of prototype hardware and items requiring low rate production.

The pair, who both work for SABIC-Innovative Plastics, are in the running for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award, considered the country's highest honor for community service This year's local Jefferson Award winners, Andrea Croslyn and Bala Ambravaneswaran, are headed to Washington, D.C., this week Andrea Croslyn and Bala Ambravaneswaran, both ...

Thunderstorms rumbled through the Tri-State this afternoon, prompting several weather warnings, according to the National Weather Service.

Indiana State Police from the Evansville post arrested 13 motorists from 8 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Saturday during a saturation patrol targeting impaired and dangerous drivers.

The Powerball jackpot for Saturday, May 30 is an estimated $20 million since one ticket sold in the aptly named town of Winner, South Dakota matched all six numbers drawn Wednesday, May 27 for the $222 million jackpot.

By Adam Tschorn David Powell, left, a podiatrist from Mt. Vernon, Ind., decided to style his beard as a whaleA's tail for the Partial Beard Freestyle competition.

A mother imprisoned for failing to intervene when her boyfriend allegedly delivered a beating that killed her son now says that in the hours before the boy was hospitalized she shoved him against a bathroom vanity and shook him 'hard enough to cause him to suffer injury.' Further, Donna Moore now says that on no occasion did she ever see her ...

The Indiana Department of Transportation is announcing that construction will soon begin on State Road 67 in Knox and Greene counties.

Indianapolis, Indiana, May 6, 2009 - GRW Engineers will host two Joint Land Use Study public participation meetings in June 2009.

Boil order issued for part of Mount Vernon, Ind. By Staff Report Originally published 10:53 a.m., May 5, 2009 Updated 10:53 a.m., May 5, 2009 MOUNT VERNON, Ind.

Courier & Press staff report Originally published 02:17 p.m., May 2, 2009 Updated 02:17 p.m., May 2, 2009 A 51-year-old Mount Vernon, Ind.

In their remarks at Thursday's Vanderburgh County Right to Life Spring Banquet, both Alaska Gov.

INDOT presents award for smoothness on resurface project SEYMOUR, Ind. - The Indiana Department of Transportation recently presented the Smoothness Award for a Resurface Project to Dave O'Mara Contractor, Inc.

Five people have been arrested in connection with the discovery of another meth lab in the county.

Curves fitness franchises in Evansville, Mount Vernon, Ind., and Henderson, Ky., have collected more than 10,000 pounds of nonperishable food to donate to area food banks and homeless shelters.

A Council Bluffs woman got a real blast from the past in her mailbox when a mysterious card arrived.

MOLLY BARTELS / Courier & Press Aventine Renewable Energy has halted work on the ethanol plant it has been building in Mount Vernon, Ind.

MCFARLAND MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, 750 Lincoln Ave., will celebrate a pre-pastoral anniversary for the Rev.