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Culture Shock By Kelly Gifford Auditions: University of EVansville Theatre is holding auditions for two young male roles for its upcoming production of "BIG FISH" next week. Two male roles, for children between the ages of eight to 13, will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the May Studio Theatre on UE's campus. Sctors should come prepared with a song of their choice, bring sheet music for live accompaniment and be prepared to read from the script. Interested actors should be available for evening

Summaries of Vanderburgh County Health Department’s inspections are made public after restaurants and food stores have had 10 days to respond. Reinspections are at the inspector’s discretion.

Go to any major car show in the United States and, chances are, you'll see someone wearing a "Frog Follies" shirt.

Habitat for Humanity welcomed more than 300 community members to its first “Rock the Block” event on Saturday to celebrate efforts to revitalize Jacobsville.

Initially sidelined by allergies while her campaign chairman spoke, Democratic mayoral candidate Gail Riecken eventually found her voice during a town hall meeting Saturday. When she did, she criticized Republican Mayor Lloyd Winnecke’s $1.7 million plan for waging a war on housing blight in Evansville by converting the nonprofit Evansville Brownfields Corp. into a land bank funded primarily with newly available riverboat money.

Authorities are still investigating a claim that an Evansville police officer’s son battered a civilian in late June while riding in a patrol car with his father.

A rating agency says Evansville's capability to retire debt on the Ford Center and the upcoming Downtown convention hotel project is strong.

Todd Bussey said Crossroads Christian Church saw a need and decided to fulfill it. Church members, like many from across the country, were traveling to gulf coast communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina. In making those trips, Bussey — Crossroads senior associate pastor — said they learned of dozens who had evacuated these areas settling in Evansville. "It's not like when someone suffers a fire and they have their neighbors to rally around and help," he said. "These people had no resources.

Some eye-popping figures flew around at Friday's 2015 Vanderburgh County tax sale, where winning bidders laid out more than $2.3 million for tax-delinquent properties.

After years of appeals and trials, the Boonville city limits may finally expand.