Mount Vernon News

BOB GWALTNEY / Courier & Press Jack Carter caulks the windows on the new brick facade of West Elementary School in Mount Vernon, Ind., on Thursday.

The Posey County Historic Society recently discovered an old newspaper article. It chronicled the dedication of the Mt.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your hot-air balloons -- and model trains, powered parachutes and radio-controlled model airplanes.

BOB GWALTNEY / Courier & Press Jack Carter caulks the windows on the new brick facade of West Elementary School in Mount Vernon, Ind., on Thursday.

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of stories about small Tri-State congregations.

DENNY SIMMONS / Courier & Press Melanie Doty, center, discusses what she thinks is a lack of enforcement of a law requiring reporting cases of suspected child abuse.

By JOI LOUVIERE Courier Press staff writer 464-7419 or louvierej@courierpress.com Friday, July 11, 2008 ERIN McCRACKEN / Courier & Press Amanda Stewart, a board member and working member of the River City ...

MOUNT VERNON, Ind. -- The force of June's record flooding on the Wabash River created an island that has left about a dozen farmers cut off from some of their cropland.

A Mt. Vernon, Ind., driver involved in a collision with a semi tractor trailer on the Lloyd Expressway this morning "is one very lucky woman," according to Deputy Rob Lutz of the Vanderburgh County sheriff's ...

Courtesy Willard Library, Karl K. Knecht photograph This photograph, taken around 1900, shows the Vanderburgh County Poor Farm, which is no longer standing.

A 17-year-old girl died Sunday morning in Mount Vernon after the four-wheeler she was riding overturned on top of her, officials said in a news release.

An Indiana motorcyclist died Tuesday of injuries he suffered in a crash on the Dragon the day before.

About 6,000 customers - including the University of Southern Indiana - were without power briefly Wednesday because of a problem at a Vectren substation.

Springfield police are watching an area west of downtown for fires. Someone set two buildings on fire Tuesday night.

Police have now arrested one of the men they believe stabbed a Posey County man, drove him to a rural area and then left him there.

The U.S. Coast Guard has shut down a portion of the Ohio River between Mount Vernon, Ind., and Old Shawneetown, Ill.

Motorists are being urged to use caution on the Lloyd Expressway from St. Joseph Avenue to near Mount Vernon while crews paint the roadway.

Indiana State Police are looking for a man in connection with the Tuesday stabbing of a 19-year-old Mount Vernon man.

ERIN McCRACKEN / Courier & Press The Henderson County Riverport Authority is an intermodal port that can ship large quantities of materials by barge, rail or truck.

River Sweep 2008, the annual shoreline cleanup of the Ohio River and its tributaries, will be held Saturday.