Category Archives: Local News

Frog Follies Returns
The annual Frog Follies Street Rod Run returns during a heat wave after missing last year's event due to COVID-19. The pre-1949 hot rods are pouring into the tri-state with the event kicking off this ...
Aug 26, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer

LST 325 Summer Cruise
The World War II ship homeported in Evansville is set for its summer cruise. LST 325 will cast off from it's Evansville Riverfront home August 31. The ship will pass Owensboro about 5pm and will fire ...
Aug 26, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer

Suggested Lloyd Closures
The Lloyd 4-U project team sent out numerous questionnaires sking what closures along the Lloyd Expressway would enhance safety. They got about fifteen hundred responses. Most of those responding favo...
Aug 26, 2021 Dr. Matthias Ripp / CC

Hopkins County Jail Records 1st COVID Positive
Hopkins County Jail has confirmed that an inmate tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. Until now, the jail has had no inmates testing positive since the beginning of the pandemic. The case was disc...
Aug 25, 2021 sergio santos / CC

Classrooms or No Sports: EVSC
The superintendent of Evansville Vanderburgh schools says the goal is to keep the kids in the classrooms. But Dr. David Smith says without taking positive steps, that might not happen. And if it doesn...
Aug 25, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer

Arrest in Fatal Hit/Run
There's been an arrest in a fatal hit and run that happened on Fulton Avenue earlier this month. On the night of August 8, Evansville police were called to the 1000 block of Fulton. That where they fo...
Aug 24, 2021 Kelsey Ritter (Vanderburgh County Jail)

Labor Day Celebrartion Set
The 135th Labor Day Celebration is set for Princeton's Gibson County Fairgrounds in Princeton, September 3 to 6. Aside from the free carnival rides, there'll be a demolition derby, food booths, crafts...
Aug 24, 2021 dion gillard / CC

Beshear Rescinds School Mask Order
The Kentucky Secretary of State's Office confirms that governor Andy Beshear filed the paperwork Monday morning to cancel the order mandating masks in Kentucky schools. That filing comes after the Ken...
Aug 24, 2021 Governor Andy Beshear (Photo courtesy Kentucky Governor's Office)

Slaughters Couple Sought on Multiple Charges
Members of the Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force haven't been able to track down 60-year-old Dale Boudreaux and 59-year-old Julie Boudreaux of Slaughters. Officers serving civil papers at their home foun...
Aug 24, 2021 Tomas de Aquino / CC

Columbia St. Closure
Ragle Inc. will be closing Columbia Street between Garvin Street & Sherman Street beginning Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 and continuing for two days to finish restoration work. Garvin Street will no...
Debra Miller Aug 23, 2021 Myrtle Beach TheDigitel / CC


