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A West Salem, Illinois, man arrested last May on charges he battered a 4 ½ month-old family member has been sentenced to five years in prison.

In late August 2005, Nancy Lockyear sat at her usual table at the Neutral Ground Coffeehouse in New Orleans, working on her master's thesis.

Supporters of Southwestern Indiana's Regional Cities application say they've come up with a list of projects which would be "transformational" for the area.

Financing closed Friday on the convention hotel planned for Downtown Evansville, and road closures signaling the start of construction could occur sometime next week.

Mayor Lloyd Winnecke and his re-election challenger, Gail Riecken, have scheduled three debates. The election is Nov. 3.

The Wall That Heals, a half-sized replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., will be returning to Evansville next week.

Gail Riecken, Democratic nominee for mayor of Evansville, will have the first two in a series of planned town hall meetings on Saturday.

There will be a sobriety checkpoint somewhere in Vanderburgh County Friday night, authorities have announced.

I kissed my youth goodbye on May 3, 2014 after I balled my eyes out on a bar pool table while drinking a bottom shelf gin and tonic after graduating college. Alright, fine! I'm still in my youth. But the year since graduating has been an ever-changing maze of adulthood and gosh darnit it's completely confusing.

The Gibson County Sheriff's Office is still searching for a missing man with Parkinson's disease.