Vincennes News

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education has recommended tuition and fee rate increases of no higher than 5 percent for the state's seven public college and university systems.

Longtime Vincennes University women's basketball coach Harry Meeks was named athletic director, replacing Tina Miller, who had served as interim athletic director for three years.

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MOLLY BARTELS / Courier Press Kayla Ryan makes her way to the top of a wall at Vertical eXcape Climbing Center in Evansville on Tuesday.

The Perry County commissioners accepted in a regular meeting Wednesday more than $1.2 million in federal stimulus funding that will bring improvements to French Ridge and Leopold roads.

THIS WILL BE SOME OF THE FIRST 90 DEGREE TEMPERATURES OF THE YEAR. DEW POINT TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 70S WILL ADD TO THE HEAT AND RESULT IN HEAT INDEX READINGS AROUND 100 DEGREES FOR A FEW HOURS THIS AFTERNOON.

Daniel Cannon of St. Charles was playing football in the parking lot of Taste of Himalayas in St.

The Greater Terre Haute Branch of the NAACP honored several graduating seniors May 14 as part of an inaugural program called "Umbrella Senior Salute." The goals of the program are to encourage the students to continue their education and to let them know that the NAACP is there to support them.

Janice and Tom Blackburn weren't on Saturday, when they brought out their lawn chairs and set up their version of fun right under the trees in Central Park.

ERIN McCRACKEN / Courier & Press Bill Henderson sits and talks with his wife, Kathe Henderson, 56, who has multiple sclerosis, in the hallway of Golden Living Center in Petersburg, Ind., last week.

The Northern Knox County fire crews were called at 2:18 a.m. CDT Wednesday to extinguish a burning garage at 7430 East Springtown Road, north of Vincennes, Ind.

Residents had the chance to learn more about aging, in a healthy way. Vincennes University hosted the fifth annual "Aging Well Retreat" for adults 50 and over.

When answering the phone, workers at Duell's Evansville lot now leave the word "Chrysler" out of the business' name.

The free event begins at 10:15 a.m. EDT and continues at 7 p.m. with a birthday party and movie showing.

Proceeds will benefit the Good Samaritan Hospital Breast Care Center and the Greater Evansville Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Experts will offer in-depth advice on strategies for earning federal incentives for electronic health records at Health Data Management's Health I.T. Stimulus Summit.

Vincennes' mayor is working to make the streets safer for bikes and pedestrians.

Daviess County Commissioners heard an insurance presentation aimed at beginning a wellness program for county employees.

Six representatives from the state Department of Transportation Vincennes office were in Washington Tuesday to meet with Daviess County Commissioners.

A Frontier Waterproofing crew has been working on the monument since August, and the project is expected to be complete by this August Courtesy National Park Service Stalactites have been growing in the basement of the George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes, Ind., because of leaks in the terrace.