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IN Passes 1-Million COVID Cases
The state of Indiana has officially passed the 1 million case mark in the Covid-19 pandemic. The total in the state is now 1,000,163 cases and 15,771 deaths. The state map shows 23 new cases in Vander...
Oct 19, 2021 sergio santos / CC
Toyota to Build Battery Plant In The U.S.
Toyota plans to build a $1.29 billion dollar factory in the U.S. to manufacture batteries for gas-electric hybrid and fully electric cars. While the company did not say where the plant will be located...
Oct 19, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jordan Rowe
Big Brothers Big Sisters Gala
Big Brothers Big Sisters is hosting their "Big Heart Big Impact" Gala. The semi-formal Gala will take place on Thursday, November 4, at The Crescent Room at Milestones. The evening will begin with app...
Oct 18, 2021 Image courtesy of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Indiana
Fight in IHOP
Evansville police were called to the International House of Pancakes restaurant on Burkhart Road early Sunday morning. A man with a gun reportedly started a fight with several people in the dining roo...
Oct 18, 2021 Mike Mozart / CC
Princeton Pickleball Courts
Four new pickleball courts opened up at Lafayette Park in Princeton on Saturday. The space was originally designed as two tennis courts, but they were starting to deteriorate. So the city's park and r...
Oct 18, 2021 Stephen Rahn
Fire Displaces Residents
Evansville Fire units responded to a small house fire in the 1500 block of South Weinbach Sunday morning. The home occupant was awakened by the smell of smoke and alerted a neighbor who called 9-1-1. ...
Oct 18, 2021 WIJKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer
Tornado Confirmed in Spencer County
The National Weather Service confirms an EF-1 tornado Friday night in Spencer County. It touched down near the intersection of Highway 231 and County Road 1250 North. Estimated peak winds were 90 mile...
Oct 18, 2021 PhotoJunkie! / CC
Boil Advisory Lifted
Evansville water customers in the North Park area were impacted by a service shut-off on Wednesday. That's when workers had to interrupt water service to replace a 24-inch pipe. A boil advisory was is...
Oct 18, 2021 Paul Hudson / CC
3,000 CenterPoint Customers Lost Power
More than 3,000 Centerpoint energy customers in Evansville were without power yesterday (Thursday). The CenterPoint map showed the outage happened in a large area that surrounds Deaconess Midtown. Cen...
Oct 15, 2021 allispossible.org.uk / CC
Drive By Shooting
One man was hurt in a drive-by shooting near Petersburg early Thursday. Indiana State Police Sgt. Todd Ringle says several shots were fired into 48-year-old Corey Underhill's mobile home on West River...
Oct 15, 2021 Tony Webster / CC
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