Category Archives: Local News

Coroner Sees Rise In Overdoses Of A Different Kind
It's 1,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl. Vanderburgh County Coroner Steve Lockyear says at least two people have overdosed and died from it in the last month...
Amy Adams Jun 27, 2023 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Sunday's Storms Closes Atrium
French Lick Resort officials say hail damage at the West Baden Springs Hotel has closed their atrium indefinitely. That hail damage was from storms that rumbled through the Tri-State on Sunday. Report...
Amy Adams Jun 27, 2023 Andie712b / CC

Celebration This Afternoon Over Downtown Evansville
If you're in the area of downtown Evansville around 12:30 this afternoon, look up in the sky. It's not a bird or Superman, but it is a plane, a KC 135 Stratotanker. It's one of several scheduled India...
Amy Adams Jun 27, 2023 US Air Force

Free Internet For Qualifying Families
The White House announced on Monday that Indiana will receive more than $868 million to bring high speed internet to more Americans. The program is called the Broadband Equity Access, and Deployment o...
Amy Adams Jun 27, 2023 Photo from AT&T website

Increased Complaints Launches New Website
The Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force has created a new website. It provides the public with information relative to reporting internet crimes against children, resources, statistics...
Amy Adams Jun 27, 2023 Photo from News release

Shriners Half-Pot Winner Hasn't Come Forward To Claim Stash
We have a winner in the Hadi Half-pot, we just don't know who it is. Shriners say no one has come forward after Saturday night's drawing. The winner will get half of the $214,470 pot. They have until ...
Amy Adams Jun 26, 2023 Shriners Fest photo from website

Selected Families Will Receive Free Laptops
Vanderburgh County students and families that were pre-selected by the EVSC are getting free refurbished laptops donated by Compudopt. The computers are provided by AT&T in their commitment to hel...
Amy Adams Jun 26, 2023 Photo from news release

Downtown Apartment Fire Determined Accidental
Evansville firefighters were dispatched Saturday night to 627 SE Riverside Drive for an apartment fire. When crews arrived, they reported a small fire in the bedroom and quickly put it out. Structural...
Amy Adams Jun 26, 2023 Photo taken from EFD Facebook page

No Arrests In Evansville Stabbing Death
Friday afternoon around 3:00 Evansville Police officers responded to a stabbing in the 500 block of E. Michigan Street. Once on scene, a deceased adult male victim was located with a wound and blood o...
Amy Adams Jun 26, 2023 Photo from EPD

Motorcycle Club Holds Two Special Events Tomorrow
The Wanderers motorcycle club has an open invitation to join their poker run and open house on Saturday. Registration is from 9am to 11am at Leroy's Tavern in Evansville. The cost is $15 per rider or ...
Amy Adams Jun 23, 2023 Wanderers (photo from FB)


