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U of E Music Department Will Not Be Cut
The University of Evansville reverses itself on one part of a proposed realignment that would remove 17 majors and considerable staff from its curriculum. The university now says the music department ...
Feb 08, 2021 WIKY News Photo by ay Zimmer
IN Lieutenant Governor Takes The Needle
Indiana Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch came tome to take the needle on Friday Crouch took the first of two shots of the Pfizer vaccine at the Deaconess clinic in downtown Evansville. She said afte...
Feb 08, 2021 Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch (Photo: Office of the Lieutenant Governor)
Teen Shot
An Evansville teenager is still in the hospital after being shot Saturday night. Evansville police were dispatched to a shots-fired call in the Cedar Trace Apartments parking lot about 6:30pm . They f...
Feb 08, 2021 Tac6 Media / CC
New School COVID Guidelines in IN Take Effect
New guidelines introduced last week by Indiana health officials take effect today... ...these are guidelines concerning contact tracing and quarantining in schools. Indiana state health commissioner D...
Feb 08, 2021 Jack Sem / CC
Drug Bust from Traffic Stop
Officers make a Sunday morning traffic stop and find more than they bargained for. Police were on patrol about 2am yesterday (Sun) morning on at Elmandorf Avenue near Pollack when they see a car turn ...
Feb 08, 2021 Elsa Olofsson / CC
Over $21,000 raised for Special Olympics by "Plungers" on Saturday
The annual Polar Plunge to benefit Indiana Special Olympics raised over $21,000 on Saturday at Scales Lake Park in Boonville. WIKY Morning Host Dennis Jon Bailey served as co-MC with Channel 14's Byro...
Feb 07, 2021
*UPDATE She has been found safe* Henderson P.D. searching for missing woman
UPDATE This person has been found safe. Henderson Police have taken a missing persons report for Amber Codynah age 19. Codynah is 5'3, 130lbs, brown eyes and blonde hair. She was last seen in the area...
Feb 05, 2021 Image provided by Henderson Police Department
Upper Mt Vernon Rd Closure today
Upper Mount Vernon Road will be closed between Meadowview and Diefenbach for road work today, Friday February 5, 2021. This road will be closed to all traffic except emergency vehicles from 9:30 am to...
Feb 05, 2021 Alan Levine
EVPL Foundation hosting Spring Book Sale
The Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library Foundation will hold an alternative Spring Book Sale on Saturday, March 6 at EVPL Central. A bag of ten books for $5 or a bag of ten DVDs for $10 will be avai...
Feb 05, 2021 Stewart Butterfield / CC
Temporary Jail Solution Mulled
Vanderburgh County sheriff Dave Wedding has an idea for a temporary jail expansion that will cost a fraction of the $89 million price tag fo a new jail extension. He told 14 news that his idea calls f...
Feb 05, 2021 Image courtesy of Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office
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