Category Archives: Local News

INDOT Breaks Ground In Posey County
Indiana Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Smith was joined by industry partners to break ground on the new Black River Welcome Center yesterday. The $39.9 million project is located near ...
Amy Adams Jun 09, 2023 Photo from news release

Pigeon Township Trustee Resigns
Pigeon Township Trustee Mariama Wilson has offered to resign. She made that offer to the township board nearly a year after an investigation by the FBI and Evansville police began. In April of this ye...
Amy Adams Jun 09, 2023 Photo from Mariama Wilson for Pigeon County Trustee FB site

Evansville Man Comes Clean On Charges Involving Minors
An Evansville man is in the Vanderburgh County Jail facing serious charges. 24 year old Nathaniel Dean is accused of sending sexually explicit material involving minors last August. In December, his C...
Amy Adams Jun 09, 2023 Nathaniel Dean (VCCC)

Henderson Man Charged With Attempted Murder
Henderson police were sent to the 1600 block of Powell Street about 4:20pm yesterday in reference to a shooting. There they found a female who had been shot several times. Investigation showed other p...
Amy Adams Jun 08, 2023 Shon Denton-Higgs (Henderson County Jail)

Deaconess Health Has Closed Three Crucial Centers
Deaconess Health has closed all three Diabetes Centers. Patients will now have to go through their primary care doctors for their needs. Information was shared with enrolled patients about other resou...
Amy Adams Jun 08, 2023 Melissa Johnson / CC

Posey County Teen Receives Gray Farms Scholarship
A Mt. Vernon teen is the recipient of the Gray Farms Presidents Scholarship. Sophie Kloppenburg will receive $1,000 and will attend Columbia University this fall. She plans to study sustainable develo...
Amy Adams Jun 08, 2023 Sophie Kloppenburg photo from Instagram

Community College President Dies
Ivy Tech Community College President Emeritus Gerald Lamkin has died at the age of 86. He served in a variety of roles in his 40 years with the college, starting as a part-time instructor in 1967. In ...
Amy Adams Jun 07, 2023 Photo from news release

New Bins Rolling Into Town Next Month
Henderson residents will receive new sanitation collection bins beginning the week of July 10th. Residents will be required to place trash they want collected in the City-issued bins with the lids clo...
Amy Adams Jun 07, 2023 Photo from news release

Ellis Park Is Expecting A Record Breaking Weekend
Visit Evansville officials visited with Ellis Park on Tuesday to help prepare for what could be the biggest race weekend Ellis has ever seen. Officials with the Henderson track says moving Churchill D...
Amy Adams Jun 07, 2023 Ellis Park (WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer)

Tennessee Fugitive Arrested In Evansville
Officers were dispatched to Dress Plaza around 11:20 Tuesday night for a report of shots fired. The alleged shooter was described to be a black male with no shirt, holding a pistol. A witness told dis...
Amy Adams Jun 07, 2023 Photo from EPD


