Category Archives: Local News

DEVELOPING: Three Dead in Ohio County UPDATE:
Kentucky State Police investigators will be executing search warrants this morning on a property in McHenry in Ohio County where three people were shot to death. The three bodies were found outside of...
May 20, 2021 Scott Davidson / CC

Hit/Run Suspect Sought
Police are looking for a driver who ran into an outbuilding at an east side business. It happened shortly after 9:00 yesterday (Wednesday) morning. The owners of Andersons Furniture and Appliance on W...
May 19, 2021 Ken Hawkins / CC

Man Sent to Prison for Fatal DUI Back In Jail For New DUI
The man who was sentenced to prison after a deadly crash, is back in jail on a new driving under the influence charge. 24 year oldMaxwell McMain, was booked Monday into the Webster County jail. ' In 2...
May 19, 2021 Darcy / CC

Winnecke to Address N-A-A-C-P
Mayor Lloyd Winnecke is planning an address to the Evansville chapter of the NAACP. It happens this evening, Thursday at 5:30, and can be seen on the chapter's Facebook page. The organization is playi...
May 19, 2021 Mayor Lloyd Winnecke (Photo: City of Evansville)

Ivy Tech Graduates 1300
1300 students accepted their degrees from IVY Tech in ceremonies at the Ford center. It was a momentous occasion for the Evansville campus, celebrating achievement in person for the first time since t...
May 19, 2021 John Walker / CC

Pandemic Unemployment Ends
Governor Holcomb says Indiana will end its participation in all federally funded pandemic unemployment insurance programs effective June 19, 2021. The programs that will end are: Federal Pandemic Unem...
May 18, 2021 Governor Eric Holcomb

Mask Mandate Lapses
Workers have been busy restoring city-owned buildings to pre-pandemic conditions. This comes as city-mandated mask regulations expired at midnight. In the Civic Center, crews re-configured public meet...
May 18, 2021 Marco Verch Professional Photographer and Speaker / CC

Bike Trails for Oakland City
The Oakland City mayor and town council are working to bring new bike trails to the area. Trail Heads Bike has already created parks and trails for cyclists around the Tri-State area, and Oakland City...
May 18, 2021 Riho Lüüs

Mask Mandate Expires
In Evansville, the last local government requirements concerning wearing masks expire at the end of the day. That means, barring an extension, as of tomorrow (Tuesday), there will be no local orders i...
May 17, 2021 Olgierd Rudak / CC

Henderson Wildfire
Authorities are investigating a wild-land fire that broke out in the Alzey (AL-zee) Bottoms area of Henderson County Saturday night. Officials found several spot fires that extended into the woods alo...
May 17, 2021 Dan Zen / CC


