Category Archives: Local News
COVID Relief Package Passes, Trump Will Sign
Both houses of congress have now passed the $900 trillion COVID relief package. The bill includes one-time payments of $600 to Americans making $75-thousand a year or less, along with extended unemplo...
Dec 22, 2020 Matt Turner / CC
Traffic Stop Yields Gun, Drugs
Indiana State Police pull over a car for speeding over the weekend, and found more than they bargained for. It happened on the Fulda shortcut in Spencer County. Troopers say the car was doing 55 in a ...
Dec 22, 2020 Blake Merter (Photo: Spencer County Jail)
Woman Drives at 4X Legal BAC Limit
Vanderburgh county deputies say a mother drove from Vincennes to Vanderburgh county today with an 8 year old child as a passenger while 4 times the legal limit. The girl's father, who claimed he fell ...
Dec 22, 2020 Aimee Adcock (Poto: Vanderburgh County Jail)
Deadline Set for Alles Clean-up
Henderson's Codes Department has set a deadline for cleanup of the former Alles Brothers property. The building in the 200 block of First Street partially collapsed in August. The Codes Department was...
Dec 21, 2020 WIKY News Photo by Jordan Rowe
Injured Dog to Have Surgery Monday
Officials say a road crew in Henderson found an injured dog with plastic around its neck in the median near the Zion exit on the parkway. According to Henderson county animal control, the dog's leg is...
Dec 21, 2020 Governor Tom Wolf / CC
Sports Bar Shooting
Evansville police respond to a shots-fired call at Rick's Sports Bar just before ten o'clock last (Sun) night. Preliminary investigation reveals that two men get into a fight in the bar's parking lot....
Dec 21, 2020 Shooting graphic -- Image Source: Midwest Communications
Police investigating converter thefts
Evansville Police say they've have two recent reports of people cutting catalytic converters from cars. Both happened at Wal-Mart, one each at the east side and west side stores. Police say there area...
Dec 20, 2020 Oak Ridge National Laboratory / CC
Red Kettle campaign still active
Less than a week is left on the Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign. Deputies from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office were ringing the bells at the kettles this weekend. The money collected stays ...
Dec 19, 2020 Ryan McFarland / CC
One person shot and killed in Oakland CIty
An Oakland City man is in the Gibson County Jail, accused of killing his father. According to police officials, the shooting took place in the 400 block of South Walnut Street. ISP Sgt. Todd Ringle sa...
Dec 19, 2020 WIKY News Photo by Jordan Rowe
Henderson County Fatal Fire
The Henderson County Coroner says one person and a dog died in an early Thursday morning fire. It happened at the Gumz Hunt Club on Martin-Martin Road in southern Henderson County. Smith Mills fire un...
Dec 18, 2020 Jason Bolonski / CC
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