Category Archives: Local News

Hadi Shrine Half Pot winning Number Drawn
Sales of tickets for the Hadi Shrine Summer Dream Half Pot wound up on Sunday. One of those tickets is going to be worth over $100-thousand to a lucky player. The winning number was drawn this morning...
Jun 21, 2021 Pictures of Money / CC

Jenkins Makes The Team
Mikaela Jenkins got the news she'd been waiting for on Sunday. She will be one of 34 competitors in the 2020 summer Paralympics in Japan. She swam to victory in four of her heats last week in the swim...
Jun 21, 2021 Photo provided by Jenkins Family

More Catalytic Converter Thefts
Evansville police report more theft of catalytic converters. They report on Saturday that there was a converter theft from a vehicle belonging to Midwest Terazzo. That had to have happened sometime Tu...
Jun 21, 2021 Mr ATM / CC

Man had four Times Legal Blood-Alcohol Limit
Multiple charges have been filed against an Evansville man suspected of driving with a blood/alcohol content more than four times the legal limit. Officers responded to the Broadway Liquor Store for h...
Jun 21, 2021 Cody Doninger (Vanderburgh County Jail)

Children Found Unattended in Gibson Co. Apartment
Gibson county sheriff's deputies say they arrested a woman after children were found alone in an apartment. Dispatch got a call on Sunday about screams coning from an apartment in the 200 block of Wes...
Jun 21, 2021 Jessica Woodby (Gibson County Sheriff's Office)

Evansville Woman Faces Neglect, Resisting Charges
Evansville police say a woman's son was found blocks from her location, so was charged with neglect. Officers were dispatched to Fulton Avenue at West Delaware where a caller reported a child wearing ...
Jun 21, 2021 Brook Lowe (Vanderburgh County Jail)

Evansville man sentenced to 85 years for 2019 murder
Following an investigation that spanned over two years, 33-year-old Justin Robert Brewer was sentenced to 85 years at the Indiana Department of Corrections following his conviction in the deadly shoot...
Aaron Santini Jun 18, 2021 826 PARANORMAL / CC

Ivy Tech Celebrates Juneteenth
President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday that established Juneteenth as a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Earlier on the same day, Ivy Tech Community ...
Jun 18, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer

Brewer Sentenced to Time Served
Amber Brewer was sentenced to "time served" Thursday afternoon in Evansville. She and her husband, Justin Brewer, were charged in the 2019 shooting death Delvin Mitchell. Records show a plea deal was ...
Jun 18, 2021 Clyde Robinson / CC

Billings Sentenced in Shooting
Malachi Billings has been sentenced to nine years in prison. The prosecutor says he must serve five of that, then spend the rest on probation. Billings had been facing an attempted murder charge but p...
Jun 18, 2021 Allen Allen / CC


