Category Archives: Local News
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)
Gunshot Victim Shows Up at Hospital
Evansville police say a man showed up at a local hospital with a gunshot wound about 1 o'clock this morning. Despite being injured, the man reportedly drove himself to the emergency room, and called f...
Oct 21, 2021 Robert Nelson / CC
Plea Deal Dodges Death Penalty
An Owensboro man will head to prison for life without the possibility of parole after agreeing to a plea deal. Matthew Adams pleaded guilty to the strangulation death of his then-girlfriend, 25 year o...
Oct 21, 2021 Brian Turner / CC
Local Merchants Experience Shipping Headaches
The Gehlhausen Home Accessories store in Evansville ordered 350 Christmas trees that were expected to arrive in June. They're still in New York port awaiting transit to Indiana. They now have an expec...
Oct 21, 2021 PughPugh / CC
Catalytic Theft Suspect In Custody
Evansville Police develop a suspect and make an arrest in connection with several catalytic converter thefts that have happened lately. Security cameras showed a man sawing off a device at Schmitt Ref...
Oct 21, 2021 Kenneth Hornby (Vanderburgh County Jail)
Murder/Kidnapping Call leaves 2 dead
Evansville Police were called in by Indiana State Police on a possible murder and kidnapping that happened at 1801 Stinson Avenue Tuesday night. Arriving E-P-D officers called to people inside the hom...
Oct 21, 2021 Photo: Evansville Police Department
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