Category Archives: Local News

Vote for New Evansville City Flag
Voting gets under way this week for a new Evansville city flag, which was coordinated from the Evansville Flag Project. Starting today, project officials say that people can vote between four differen...
Jun 07, 2021 One of four flag finalists -- (City of Evansville)

Zoo Admission Rises
New admission prices to Mesker Park Zoo will begin after the penguin exhibit opens in late summer or early fall. With the new exhibit, visitors will be able to get a close up look at the dozen or more...
Jun 07, 2021 Mesker Park Zoo (WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer)

Beware Telephone Scam
If you get a call from a Donald Gilmore purporting to be from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office, hang up, there's no such person. Prospective victims are told they need to pay up in amounts from...
Jun 07, 2021 Image courtesy of Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office

Six Year Old Run Over
Evansville police respond to a report of an accident with injuries in the 2000 block of East Virginia Friday evening. Arriving officers learned that 6 year old Brady McGill had been hit by a vehicle h...
Jun 07, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jordan Rowe

Kids Found Living in Storage Unit
A woman is faces neglect and drug charges after kids were found sleeping in a storage unit. Deputies say just after midnight Friday morning, they were doing a check at a storage facility on N. St. Jos...
Jun 07, 2021 Jordan Vaughn (Vanderburgh County Jail)

Holiday World Guest Dies
At Holiday World on Friday, a roller coaster returned to its station with a female passenger found to be unresponsive. She was given first aid by Holiday World EMTs before being taken to Jasper Memori...
Jun 07, 2021 WIKY News File Photo by Jordan Rowe

Issues with Meat Packers after Cyber Attack
The meatpacking company JBS confirms it still has some issues after a cyberattack this week. The world's largest meat supplier had to suspend production for a few days, causing worries to local meat s...
Jun 04, 2021 Leonid Mamchenkov / CC

METS Driver Assaulted
An Evansville man is accused of assaulting a METS bus driver Wednesday afternoon. Officers responded to the METS transfer station on NW Sixth Street for an assault in progress around 4 p.m. When they ...
Jun 04, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jordan Rowe

Child Molester Sentenced
A Mount Vernon man gets 20 years in prison for child molesting. 35-year-old Curtis Mosby of Mount Vernon admitted to performing sex acts on a child under the age of 14. Indiana State Police began thei...
Jun 04, 2021 Brian Turner / CC

LST To Re-Enact D-Day -- It was THERE
Evansville's own LST-325 was one of hundreds of similar ships that landed on the beaches of Normandy 77 years ago this Sunday. Many of those ships, though ironically NOT the 325, were built in the so-...
Jun 04, 2021 WIKY News Photo by Jay Zimmer


