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An Atlas Van Lines report shows that when it comes to relocating, the Midwest continues to lose folks, and popular destinations include the Mideast states and Southwest. The company, headquartered in Evansville says its 2010 Migration Patterns Study shows the the number of moves increased, and m be an indication the economy is improving. For the first time in two years, Kentucky joined North Carolina, Maryland, and Washington D.C. as inbound states.

If you're the parent of an EVSC student, we have some important dates to add to your planner. Recent inclement weather has resulted in two snow days. The state requires 180 days of instruction. The school corporation says make-up days for students attending Lincoln School will be March 7 and April 8. Make-up day for kids at Delaware Elementary and McGary Middle Schools will be April 8 and April 25; those attending Howard Roosa Elementary will go to class June 10, and additional days added to end of calendar.

Who were and are the most 100 significant women in Evansville over the past almost 100 years? The YWCA wants your help in answering the question by the end of January. The group was founded in Evansville March 3, 1911 and is making arrangements to celebrate its 100th birthday in spring. If you'd like to nominate a woman who has made contributions that have made a lasting impact you can submit the name by clicking HERE

There's more fall-out in the relationship between Indiana regulators, and the regulated. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission will reopen a Duke Energy case that was handled by an agency attorney who was later hired by the company. The case is one in which Duke won the ability to seek a rate increase for damage from a 2009 ice storm. On Monday, a top Duke executive left the company. James Turner was president of the company's U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas business.

Military officials are investigating the death of the wife of a 101st Airborne soldier. Fort Campbell police and emergency workers responded to a 911 call on Sunday afternoon and pronounced 21-year-old Linzi Jenks dead in her home on the post on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line.

Lawyers from across the state do more than applaud Stan Levco, for his work as Vanderburgh County Prosecutor. Levco was honored with the Eugene "Shine" Feller Award from the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council. It's membership includes every prosecuting attorney in the state, as well as their chief deputies. Director Stephen Johnson says the award's namesake, Feller, was a Southern Indiana lawyer who was an early proponent of better training for prosecutors.

The Evansville City Council votes unanimously to approve the transit workers’ contract for 2010 through 2012. It provides union members with 2 percent pay increases in each of the next 2 years, and prevents their health insurance payments from rising in both years. Larry Shane is the union's business agent, and he told the council that workers have been operating under a years old agreement.

"She's expected to make a full recovery." That's what EVSC Communications Director Marsha Jackson says about substitute teacher Jessica Kamman. The 23-year old Kamman is doing better at Saint Mary's, after being admitted to intensive care Sunday. Her car skidded off an ice-covered bridge on Indiana Highway 57 in Gibson County and struck a tree. Kamman had to be extricated. She had recently been filling in with a second-grade class at Scott School.

Friends say a soldier from Tell City who died in Afghanistan had found direction after joining the military. Army Sgt. Barry Jarvis was among six Ft. Campbell soldiers killed a week ago Sunday by a lone gunman from the Afghan Border Police. The 39-year-old Jarvis graduated from Tell City High School in 1993 and finished Army basic training in 1998. His deployment to Afghanistan started in August. Jarvis and his wife, Tina, had four children, ages 2 to 17.