Category Archives: Local News
B-17 Flights over Evansville This Weekend
Texas Raiders is a B-17 that saw combat duty in the waning days of World War II and in the Korean Conflict. The 76 year old aircraft is owned by the Commemorative Air Force, a Texas organization that ...
Jul 09, 2021 WIKY News reporter Jay Zimmer is second row center. Air personality Deb Miller is to his left (Photo: Evansville Wartime Museum)
BREAKING! No Spectators for Tokyo Olympic
Member of the International Olympics Commit reached an agreement early Thursday. Under discuszion was a spike in COVID 19 cases in Japan with the Tokyo Olympics just two weeks away. The Committee agre...
Jul 08, 2021 fdecomite / CC
Bomb Squad Closes Intersection
The EPD Bomb Squad responded to a report of a suspicious device on the east side Wednesday. EPD says officers were trying to arrest a man in the Turoni's Pizza parking lot near the intersection of Wei...
Jul 08, 2021 Graphic provided by Evansville Police Department
Terre Haute Officer Shot To Death
A police officer in Vigo County was fatally shot from ambush outside the federal building in Terre Haute. The Terre Haute police department identified the officer as 30 year veteran Detective Greg Fer...
Jul 08, 2021 Ken Hawkins / CC
WWII Planes Arrive
Two of the the World War II airplane expected for the weekend landed at Evansville Regional Airport Wednesday. They taxied to the Evansville Wartime Museum. The B-17 Flying Fortress flew several bombi...
Jul 08, 2021
Mistrial Declared
A Vanderburgh County jury deadlocked in the case of former Gibson County Clerk James Morrow. He was being tried on charges including pointing a gun at a man he had been arguing with. Morrow asked that...
Jul 08, 2021 Douglas Palmer / CC
Easter Seals Celebrates
Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center celebrates a milestone anniversary in Evansville tomorrow. A celebratory ribbon cutting will celebrate the organization's 75th anniversary of providing rehabilitativ...
Jul 07, 2021 Image Provided by Easter Seals
Fmr Gibson Clerk On Trial in Evansville
Trial got under way Tuesday for former Gibson County Clerk Jim Morrow. Prosecutors say Morrow got into a verbal altercation with a man outside of Sam's Food Mart in Princeton back in April of 2019. Mo...
Jul 07, 2021 Dave Hogg / CC
U of E Music Conservatory Blossoms
The University of Evansville announced the creation of the Music Conservatory earlier this year. This fall, the Conservatory will broaden its scope to provide musical opportunities and lifelong musica...
Jul 07, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer
Local Pianist to Play Carnegie Hall
A local musician will be making her way to perform in New York at Carnegie Hall. Diane Earl, an Owensboro pianist, teaches at Kentucky Wesleyan. The piece she'll be playing at Carnegie Hall was compos...
Jul 07, 2021 Taber Andrew Bain / CC
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