Category Archives: Local News

Fall Festival Cleanup Finished
If you drive down West Franklin Street this morning you'd never know there was a fall festival. The cleanup began on Saturday once the booths and rides were removed. For the next 12 hours, West Side N...
Oct 11, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer

Nut Club Awaits Half Pot Winner
The winner of the West Side Nut Club Half Pot has not yet come forward. This year's total is $1,515,260, which exceeds last year's record mark of more than $1.3 million. The winning ticket number is N...
Oct 11, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer

Dunkin' In Newburgh
They used to be Dunkin' Donuts. Now they're just "Dunkin," although they still sell donuts. And starting today, they're selling them in Newburgh. They're on Orchard Lane between Tommy's Express Car Wa...
Oct 11, 2021 Rene Schwietzke / CC

West Side Fire Quickly Knocked Down
A fire at Silgan (SILL-gun) Containers Corporation on west Maryland was quickly extinguished yesterday (Sunday). Officials say some embers got into the dust collection system and ignited. The building...
Oct 11, 2021 Photo: Evansville Fire Department

Road Rage Victim Hospitalized
A woman was taken to an Evansville hospital Saturday night after she was hit by a car in a west-side parking lot. It happened about 8pm in the Wal Mart lot on Red Bank Road. It apparently began as a r...
Oct 11, 2021 James Reynolds / CC

Stop Sticks Used During Police Chase
From the Warrick County Sheriff's office: On 10-8-21 at approximately 1:21 a.m., the Warrick County Sheriff's Office attempted to stop a grey van for erratic driving near the intersection of SR 66 and...
Aaron Santini Oct 08, 2021 Image courtesy of the Warrick County Sheriff's Office

Man With Gun Charged
Evansville police say a man arrested yesterday morning threatened to kill a woman on the West Side. It happened about 5 o'clock Thursday morning at 801 Hess, Police responded to a call of a person wit...
Oct 08, 2021 Chase Melton (Vanderburgh County Jail)

1/2 Pot Nears A Million
Today (Fri) is Day 5 of the Fall Festival, and the West Side Nut Club Half pot continues to lead the way. The total is zeroing in on the million dollar mark, having crossed half a million Thursday aft...
Oct 08, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer

National Guard Leaves Deaconess
Hospital officials say the Indiana National Guard is no longer at Deaconess. Wednesday was their last day assisting Deaconess hospitals in the tri-state. The Indiana National Guard initially came to h...
Oct 08, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer

Car Hits House Driver Identified
The man whose car hit a house yesterday morning has been identified. It happened about 2:45 Thursday morning on Saddlebrook Lane near its intersection with Saratoga. 25-year-old Brennan Carr had appar...
Oct 08, 2021 Brennan Carr (Vanderburgh County Jail)


