Category Archives: Local News

Henderson Boat Docks Being Removed for Season
City of Henderson Public Works crews will remove the boat docks at the downtown riverfront and at the Hayes boat ramp for the season on Tuesday. Public Works Director Brian Williams said with the weat...
Aaron Santini Oct 25, 2021 Steve Shook / CC

Evansville Fall Leaf Pickup starts November 1st
It's that time of year again. The Evansville Annual Fall Leaf Pickup Starts November 1, Ends December 14, 2021 Evansville residents who pay for trash service with their monthly Evansville Water and Se...
Debra Miller Oct 25, 2021 liz west / CC

Madisonville Shooting Victim Dies
Madisonville police say a woman was taken into custody Sunday afternoon after shooting her husband. Officers were sent to a home on Harrig Street on a report of a violent domestic disturbance. There, ...
Oct 25, 2021 Shooting graphic -- Image Source: Midwest Communications

Henderson Water Utility Pump Outage
Henderson Water Utility crews are working on a pump outage. It happened at the North Water Treatment Plant Sunday night. According to an online post, it was a high service pump that went down, bringin...
Oct 25, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jordan Rowe

Evansville Leaders Prepare for Homeless Event
Evansville city leaders are preparing for a November event aimed at raising awareness of homelessness. More than 400 people in Evansville are homeless each year. In an event called The Homeless Experi...
Oct 25, 2021 Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose / CC

Convicted Killer Sentenced
The second of two people charged in an Evansville woman's murder was sentenced. Two years ago, Diamond Sheppard-Rankin was found in her Taylor Street home suffering from stab wounds. She was rushed to...
Oct 22, 2021 Fitolay Demesmin (Vanderburgh County Prosecutor's Office)

Shooting Arrest
There's been an arrest in the case of a man who showed up at a local hospital with a gunshot wound early Thursday morning. The victim called 9-1-1 on the way telling dispatchers he had been shot. Poli...
Oct 22, 2021 Lindsey Fields (Evansville Police Department)

Fire Damages Vacant House
Evansville fire department units were sent to a house fire in Jimtown Thursday evening. It happened on East Louisiana Street around 8pm. Firefighters made entry to the house and found no one... the ho...
Oct 22, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer

Fire in Owensboro Storage Unit
Owensboro firefighters were called to a blaze in a storage unit Thursday afternoon. Reports say it happened at the Triple-A Storage facility just off Wet 4th Street near Ewing Road. Reports say the fi...
Oct 22, 2021 Dan Zen / CC

Document Shows Timeline on Murder-Kidnapping
The arrest affidavit for 36 year old Heidi Carter tracks the timeline of a bizarre care of murder and kidnapping that went down on Stinson Avenue yesterday morning. Carter met one of the victims on a ...
Oct 21, 2021 Heidi Carter (Vanderburgh County Jail)


