Evansville News

Volunteering: I spent 37 years serving our country in one capacity or another, and now I serve my community through the Rotary Club and First Lutheran Church.

The eastbound lanes of Veterans Memorial Parkway are closed between Waterworks Road and U.S. 41.

Evansville Day School shows a slight downward trend of graduates dipping from 92.3 percent in 2009 to 90.9 percent in 2012.

In March, Jack Perkins III, 28, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to child molesting, a Class A felony, and criminal confinement, a Class B felony.

Zachary McCloud, 35, faces felony charges of battery with a deadly weapon, resisting law enforcement, battery resulting in bodily injury and criminal mischief; as well as four counts of criminal mischief as a misdemeanor and resisting law enforcement as a misdemeanor.

Photographs by DENNY SIMMONS / Courier Press G. William Monaghan, Ph.D., offers students from South Middle School in Henderson, Ky., a lesson Friday morning in using carbon dating to find out how old the mounds at Angel Mounds State Historic Site are.

No rain officially fell at the Evansville Regional Airport on Thursday, the first full day that the National Weather Service had advised that scattered showers or storms could be possible.

Defense attorney John Brinson argued Friday in Vanderburgh Circuit Court that 24-year-old Naquan Powell did not have any weapons or explosives when he was arrested and was not a threat.

The pass rate on the reading exam for students in the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp.

On Sat. April 27, I attended Funk in the City at Haynie's Corner to help at the Veterans for Peace booth.

The University of Evansville is proud to announce that Robert Morse, professor of computer science, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to spend the Spring 2014 semester in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Officials said Hillcrest Washington Youth Home, Inc., an affiliated company of Southwestern, will be the corporate entity responsible for managing the majority of YSB's overall operations and programs.

KEVIN SWANK / Courier Press John Whinrey, left, receives a standing ovation as he is officially presented as the recipient of the Rotary Club of Evansville's annual Civic Award during the club's meeting Tuesday at Casino Aztar.

DENNY SIMMONS / Courier Press Archives Evansville-based Springleaf Finance - formerly American General Finance - laid off an undisclosed number of employees in February 2012.

In tonight's Eyewitness In-Depth, the National Transportation Safety Board recommends lowering the legal blood-alcohol level from .08 to .05. So what would this mean for you? How much you can or should you not drink before getting behind the wheel? Joining us tonight is Dr.

An Evansville woman says she wants charges brought against a police officer she claims broke into a vacant home she owns and is renovating.

Fans of WWE Superstars can get a chance to get up close and personal with the massive wrestlers Saturday night at the Ford Center .

The Indiana Heart Gallery, a compelling exhibit featuring portraits of children in need of adoptive families, is in Evansville.

In a recent press release Birki's by Birkenstock are being toted as the ideal shoe to wear this Memorial Day.

The go-ahead run scored on a two-out single by No. 8 hitter Carson Glick, who later came home courtesy of an RBI single by the No.