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Tony Butts likes to start trouble. That attitude was the inspiration behind the name of his 1948 Chevy panel truck — the "Agitator."

Indiana legislators made changes to get blighted properties out of local government tax sales — but not in time to affect Friday's annual sale of liens for tax-delinquent properties in Evansville.

With the deadline fast approaching, Southwestern Indiana is putting the final touches on its Regional Cities application.

The former manager of finance and office services at Wayne-White Counties Electric Cooperative has been sentenced to federal prison for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the cooperative.

An Eldorado, Illinois, man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing four ounces of highly pure methamphetamine – also known as "ice."

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence late Thursday announced his appointment of Magistrate Jacob (Zach) Winsett as Warrick County Superior Court judge effective Sept. 1.

An Illinois man has been jailed on charges that he used Facebook to lure a 16-year-old girl into a sexual relationship.

A trial has been cancelled for an Evansville man accused of striking and killing a pedestrian while driving intoxicated earlier this year.

The LST 325 ship is headed east on the Ohio River to Pittsburgh for its biggest moneymaking venture of the year.

Evansville Police Department officials released the names of four officers who shot a truck that investigators said had just rammed a police cruiser.