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Everyone in Petersburg saw Monday that it's still possible to get a good-sized crowd out for a traditional Labor Day parade. What was harder to see was a certain melancholy among some working men and women — and former working men and women — about the state of organized labor today.

An Evansville woman was arrested on multiple charges stemming from an alleged altercation at a birthday party Saturday evening, including allegedly driving while intoxicated with two young children inside the vehicle, police said.

The eighth annual Mount Vernon River Days celebration will begin Friday and continue through Sunday.

A Lynnville man accused of sending sexual messages to two young girls will be sentenced next week.

As Kevin Coon scouted North Side possibilities for an Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance agency headquarters, his wish list included plenty of space, lots of curb appeal and an easy-to-find location.

Lynn Miller-Pease, chief executive officer of Leadership Evansville, will present the results of VOICE, Evansville's citizen-driven planning process, at the University of Evansville Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in Room 100 of Koch Center for Engineering and Science. The event is free and open to the public.

The application period for two of the Indiana Office of Tourism Development's three new grant programs is now open.

The Komen Evansville Tri-State Race for the Cure affiliate will be recruiting volunteers and registering participants for the upcoming race on Wednesday from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Buffalo Wild Wings on Pearl Drive.

Tamara Hunt, professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana, will present "Masters, Servants and Seditious Libel in Eighteenth Century England," based on her research of court cases and the contractual relationship between master and servant, at 3 p.m. Friday in Kleymeyer Hall in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center at USI.

"An announcement is forthcoming" on the future of two deadly Spencer County intersections, an official with the Indiana Department of Transportation said last week.