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The developer says it will transform 200 acres of farmland into a mecca for high-end shops, a quaint town square and beautiful neighborhoods.

For over 40 years the Indiana State Police have been giving young people an up close look at law enforcement through its youth camps programs.

Kentucky Wesleyan may be headed to a new conference, but the Panthers will continue their rivalry with the University of Southern Indiana.

As the national ambassador for Easter Seals, Ben Trockman did a lot of traveling.

Raised in Ferdinand, Indiana, one of six children she was a 1978 graduate of Forest Park High School, earned a degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University in 1982, and established a career in engineering and management at AC Spark Plug, Michelin, and Frito-Lay. In 1986, Sue and her family returned to Evansville where she founded a ... (more)

MOLLY BARTELS / COURIER PRESS Cars travel south along University Parkway in Evansville on Friday.

Greensburg - North Decatur High School senior Kaleb Kramer has been named the recipient of a full-tuition, four-year scholarship as the Decatur County Community Foundation 2013 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar, reported DCCF Executive Director Deb Locke.

Four Indiana communities have been selected to host community conversations that will help them better understand their past and prepare for Indiana's Bicentennial in 2016.

MOLLY BARTELS / COURIER & PRESS The 2013 Star Student Award banquet was held at the Bauerhaus in Evansville on Sunday, May 5, 2013.

KEVIN SWANK / Courier & Press USI's Christine Denise Harris of Indianapolis used her mortarboard to thank her mom and dad during graduation ceremonies at the PAC on Saturday.

Expansion of Evansville's Greenway Passage and completion of the paved path between the University of Southern Indiana and Burdette Park have inspired growing parades of individuals, couples, friends and families to load up their bikes, lace up their sneakers, leash up their pets and hit the trails.

When she was taking an English class at University of Southern Indiana back in 2011, Jess Durkin had a writing assignment to fulfill - professor Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw told the class they could write about anything they wanted but it had to be something travel related.

I have lived on the West Side of Evansville for most of my life. My grandparents resided in the old railroad community of Howell and I have witnessed the neighborhood devolve from what was once an independent, small-town community akin to "Andy of Mayberry," to what now, in places, looks like a slum you could find in any big, neglected city.

Lynn, a fifth-grade teacher at Highland Elementary School, was one of eight Indiana educators named the Martha Lea and Bill Armstrong Teacher Educators for the 2013-14 school year at the IU School of Education Celebration of Teaching ceremony in late April.

Four Indiana communities have been selected to host community conversations that will help them better understand their past and prepare for Indiana's Bicentennial in 2016.

A new poetry prize named for poet Michael Waters, a professor in the Monmouth University English Department, has been created by Southern Indiana Review , a literary magazine published twice a year by the University of Southern Indiana.

The fifth annual May Day Film Festival will feature free admission, free popcorn, Storm Troopers and a dozen independent movie screenings in the Evansville Museum, Saturday.

Mike Fetscher, an associate in technology at the University of Southern Indiana, said he experienced router issues with his ground phone at his home.

In the largest graduating class in more than a decade, the University of Evansville will award 595 degrees to 579 students during the university's 115th commencement ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ford Center .

Sweeping all three doubles matches early in its NCAA Preliminary Round final against Ferris State University on Sunday, the University of Southern Indiana men's tennis team cruised to a 5-0 victory and advance to the round of 16 for the first time in school history.