Evansville Metro News

One of two inmates who escaped from the minimum-security Career Development Center in Frankfort on Monday night has been recaptured while the other remained at large yesterday.

Henderson Fiscal Court on Tuesday accepted the resignation of County Attorney Charlie McCollom -- effective Sunday -- and appointed Steve R. Gold as county attorney to fill the position.

A 24-year-old Indiana man was seriously injured after jumping off the U.S. 41 southbound twin bridge early Sunday morning -- in an apparent attempt to get away from law enforcement.

A couple of days before the Fourth of July holiday, Debbie Collins was visiting the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Lee Anna and Robert Jones, in Sturgis, where they were shooting some locally purchased ...

The Children's Center for Dance Education has set open auditions for its regional touring company on Saturday, Aug.

Starting Sept. 9, a 60-foot pioneer era flatboat will travel from Rockport, Ind., to New Orleans in honor of President Abraham Lincoln's birthday bicentennial, and Henderson will be one of the stops on the ...

As a legion of autograph seekers snaked around the atrium at Evansville's Marriott on Saturday, Chris Reed and his 4-year-old son, Wyatt, were among the first in line.

The 16,812 ducks are dumped into the river for the annual Ducks on the Ohio on Evansville's Riverfront.

Question: Is that a new road being built underneath the U.S. 41 twin bridges? It's staked off and has been bulldozed parallel to the riverbank.

Four alleged drunken drivers were arrested overnight during Indiana State Police saturation patrols along the Lloyd Expressway, according to a news release.

The following information is based on public records from local and area law enforcement agencies and/or court systems: Henderson District Court Several cases were recently waived to the grand jury from ...

Learn more about the universe tomorrow at Patoka Lake in Southern Indiana as members of the Louisville, Evansville and Indiana astronomical societies, the Stonebelt Stargazers of Bloomington, Ind., and the ...

FERDINAND, Ind. - A southern Indiana monastery has decided to give its 73 lay employees a new kind of perk: cash assistance to help pay for the fuel they use commuting to work.

Local Catholic education is "flourishing," said Phyllis Bussing, who announced her departure Thursday as director of schools in the Diocese of Evansville.

Local Contest seeks Christian Poets The Christian Fine Arts is sponsoring a free poetry contest.

By RICHARD GOOTEE Courier Press staff writer 464-7436 or gooteer@courierpress.com Friday, July 18, 2008 ERIN McCRACKEN / Courier & Press Joyce Mitchell of Henderson, Ky., tries to catch her breath after winning ...

After 15 years at Ford Motor Co., Kim Jackson is thinking about earning less but making a difference in the lives of people who really need help.

Easter Seals' 2008 Homerun Sweepstakes has come to a close, after Joyce Mitchell of Henderson, KY, walked away with the grand prize Thursday.

Newly released surveillance videos provide a dramatic glimpse of a shooting at a western Kentucky plastics plant that left five people and the gunman dead.

Henderson slipped one spot to rank as Kentucky's eighth-largest city in 2007, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Wednesday.