Warrick County News

Making the case for withholding the 2009 local homestead credit to preserve local government revenue, city officials have pointed again and again to public safety spending.

The Evansville Police Department is going after $1.4 million in federal grant money to update the department.

A Warrick County jury convicted John Matthew Stephenson in 1997 for three murders and he was sentenced to death.

Indiana's attorney general said Thursday that he would appeal a federal judge's order throwing out the guilty verdicts and death sentence of a southern Indiana man convicted of the fatal ambush of three people along a rural Warrick County road.

It's probably something most of us take for granted; having the ability to drive or catch a bus to get to school.

Douglas Wayne Kemp, who has been charged with two counts of child molestation against a 14-year-old girl, currently has a cash only bond of $100,000 and is being held at the Warrick County Jail.

The Boonville Fire Deresponded at 6:22 a.m. to a report of a fire in Room 14 of the Motel Manor and informed Warrick County Sheriff's Office deputies that two occupants of the room had fled in a white Ford Ranger pickup.

A man and woman face meth charges tonight after deputies and the Boonville Fire Department were called to a meth lab fire.

A former Indiana State Trooper convicted of killing his wife and two kids, will get a new trial.

A teenage girl is in the hospital Friday morning after being hit by a truck late Thursday night.

ERIN McCRACKEN / Courier & Press From back to front, Kirsti Auten, 16, Nicole Raubach, 15, Emily York, 17, and Shea Lanaghan, 16, paint a display case in the War and Peace room of the Warrick County Museum on Wednesday in Boonville, Ind.

A severe thunderstorm with strong straight line winds moved south and southeast through Warrick County and the extreme eastern edge of Vanderburgh County and into Western Kentucky this evening leaving thousands of Vectren customers without power.

Rupert's Catholic Church in Yankeetown, Ind., has an original pressed tin ceiling.

The Warrick sheriff's office said Tim R. Hunt apparently was traveling north on Indiana 161 north of Tennyson when he ran off the east side of the road into a wooded area.

Some Warrick County property taxpayers are coming to NEWS 25 wanting to know why their bills are so high, after their bill went up by hundreds of dollars.

BOB GWALTNEY / Courier & Press Aleece Weave and Bob Zerface use a fine screen to filter dirt from the larger matter that has been dug by fellow archaeology students from the summer dig at Angel Mounds on Wednesday, the last day of the dig.

Some Warrick County residents will be without water Thursday. American Water said they will be shutting off the water to homes in the Outer Lincoln Avenue area from Epworth Road to Grimm Road.

There's an update on the death investigation of a six month old. The Warrick County Sheriff's Office tells 14 News the baby's name is Paxton Hill.

NEWS 25 has learned that an autopsy has been scheduled for today for six-month-old Paxton Hill.

The Warrick County Sheriff's Office and the Warrick County Coroner's Office are investigating the death of a six-month-old child who died Sunday morning.