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Henderson students are donating their time to pick out gifts for local families in need. Colonels' Corner Bank raised over $5,600 during its Turkey of the Year fundraiser and is using the money for an Adopt-A-Child program. Henderson County students will shop Monday, December 10th for 49 children from 20 different families at the local Wal-Mart. Colonels' Corner Bank and the Volunteer Information Center work together each year to organize this community service project. 

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels are getting geared up for the 2013 Capitol City Ford Indianapolis Air Show. Two Blue Angels flew into Indianapolis International Airport to spread the word and get Hoosiers excited. Ryan Chamberlain and Michael Cheng visited Indy for a pre-air show visit. Both recently flew into  Evansville to discuss the Shriners Freedom Festival Air near July 4th. All of the one-hour shows will feature six demonstration F18 Hornets. Evansville's will be held downtown off Dress Plaza. The Indy air show will be at Indianapolis Regional Airport in Greenfield.

Kansas City linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his 22-year-old girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, then drove to the Chiefs' facilities at Arrowhead Stadium and took his own life in front of some team employees, including coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli, on Saturday morning.

A 13 hour telethon in Evansville raised $50,000 for superstorm Sandy relief efforts.  The Tri-State Gives Back telethon took place yesterday at the local Red Cross headquarters, with Mayor Lloyd Winnecke, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Eric Williams, and other prominent local figures taking phone calls for donations.  Old National Bank matched $5,000 from callers and set up an account to accept donations at any branch location.  Donations can also be made at the Red Cross website or the local headquarters on Stockwell Road.

If you're looking for a job and want to help victims of Superstorm Sandy, you may want to call Custom Staffing Services of Evansville. The company is hiring 104 workers for AmeriQual to help produce Meals Read to Eat. The company is best known for making MREs for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you're interested, you should act quickly. Custom Staffing hopes to fill the temporary jobs paying $8 an hour before Monday.

The show will not go on tonight at Ford Arena. Journey , Pat Benatar and Loverboy has been postponed until Jan or Feb of 2013. Singer Arnel Pineda ...Steve Perry's replacement has been diagnosed with a form of laryngitits. Your ticket will be good for the make-up show next year. you can get a refund at your point of purchase.

The Consolidation of Evansville and Vanderburgh County Governments is the first item on the ballot on Election Day. The divisive issue has been a hot topic of discussion for many years in the Evansville area.

Around 30 farmers, firefighters, and grain mill employees near Evansville are now trained on grain entrapment prevention and rescue.  Michigan-based Safety and Technical Rescue Association sent its chief operating officer to Azteca Milling to hold a training class on Thursday, right as Azteca completes a grain storage expansion at its facility.  Participants had the opportunity to model a simulated entrapment and rescue.  After the training, Graber Construction and GSI Group donated a piece of specialized grain rescue equipment to Azteca.

Evansville finally saw rain this week, but not as much as you might expect.  Despite the periods of heavy rain, the total precipitation only added up to about half an inch from Tuesday through yesterday morning.  The whole month of September has seen more than 7 and a half inches already.  Normally, September averages around 3 inches.  The extra rain this month has helped the area recover from the summer's extreme drought, and there is still hope for farmers as Purdue University climatologists say there is a chance for even more rain statewide over the next two weeks.</P

An Indiana state senator wants to reduce penalties for possession of a small amount of marijuana.  Republican Brent Steele intends to introduce a bill next session that would make possession of 10 grams or less an infraction, rather than a criminal misdemeanor.  Steele says he will include the provision in a bill to update the Indiana criminal code.  Currently, possessing 30 grams or less of marijuana is a class A misdemeanor on the first offense, while possessing 30 grams or more is the lowest level of felony, a class D charge.