Category Archives: Local News

Indiana Lieutenant Governor Has Special Announcement
Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch and Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke are making a special announcement this morning. That's set to happen at 10AM at the Evansville Wartime Museum. They will be joine...
Amy Adams Feb 24, 2023 Graphic: Evansville Wartime Museum

Basketball Coach Arrested After Investigation
The Hopkinsville Police Department conducted an extensive drug trafficking investigation on 40 year old Melvin Brown. Officers seized a large amount of money, a handgun and illegal drugs. He was indic...
Amy Adams Feb 24, 2023 Melvin Brown (McCracken County Jail)

Dancing Robbery Suspects Arrested At Casino
Two men were arrested about 1 o'clock this morning, charged with a burglary at Balley's. Officers were called to the casino after 20 year old Tanner Lamb and 18 year old Jackson Greenfield allegedly e...
Amy Adams Feb 23, 2023 Greenfield and Lamb (Vanderburgh County Jail)

Man Arrested For Speeding On Four-Wheeler
On Tuesday an Indiana State Trooper observed a four-wheeler traveling at a high rate of speed east on River Road approaching Main Street in Patoka. The rider, 23 year old Riley Hill, ignored a stop si...
Amy Adams Feb 23, 2023 Riley Hill (Gibson County Jail)

Holiday World Holding A Virtual Hiring Event
Summer will be here in a few months, so if you are looking for a fun job, Holiday World & Splashin' Safari wants you. The theme park has 2,000 positions to fill for the upcoming season. There will...
Amy Adams Feb 23, 2023 Photo from HW website

Local Non-Profit Donor Wins $10,000 In Annual Drawing
The United Way of Southern Indiana held their annual drawing at the Federal Credit Union in Newburgh yesterday. A donor won $10,000 from the non-profit organization. To date, United Way of Southwester...
Amy Adams Feb 23, 2023 Photo from United Way press release

12 in Owensboro large scale meth ring to get federal charges
Federal agents and Owensboro police have arrested nine people locally in what's described as a large scale meth ring. Two people in Florida and one person in Georgia were also arrested in connection w...
Brian Medcalf Feb 22, 2023 whitesun12

Two Candidates Won't Be On May's Ballots
The Vanderburgh County election board votes to remove two candidates from the Evansville mayor's race. Republican Caine Helmer and Democrat Brian Alexander were removed because they didn't meet the re...
Amy Adams Feb 22, 2023 Maryland GovPics / CC

KYTC Doubles Reward To $5,000
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has doubled the reward to $5,000 in hopes to capture thieves stealing copper wire. Light poles have been stripped, along with junction boxes of about 94,000 feet of...
Amy Adams Feb 22, 2023 Pictures included in KYTC news release

Wallace Sentenced Today For 2022 Shooting
An Evansville man will be sentenced today for shooting a woman in 2022. 39 year old Sendaneo Wallace barricaded himself inside the victim's house on East Riverside Drive. While he was being taken into...
Amy Adams Feb 22, 2023 Sendaneo Wallace (Evansville Police Department)


