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Vanderburgh County offices requested $5.3 million more than what's expected to be raised in tax revenue next year.

The Evansville Police Department sergeant who was arrested Tuesday told deputies that she put her wife in a choke hold at her Chandler, Indiana, home, according to court documents.

Much of Central and Northern Vanderburgh County, including parts of the North Side of Evansville, is under a precautionary water boil advisory.

Police arrested an Evansville man on Wednesday morning, hours after he was accused of raping a female acquaintance earlier this week.

Much of Evansville's North Side and parts of Vanderburgh County have little or no water pressure Wednesday morning.

A portion of Southbound U.S. 41 in Gibson County is closed due an early morning injury wreck Thursday, the Gibson County Sheriff's Office announced on Twitter.

Registration for WNIN's first high school short film competition has now open and aims to provide high school students with the skills for a future in filmmaking or visual art.

The University of Evansville's Music Department offers a wide range of concert experiences from its students, faculty and guest artists each year. This fall, and throughout the 2015 — 2016 school year, will continue with that tradition with series such as its First Tuesday concerts, guest artists such as vocalist Diane Schuur and faculty and student recitals throughout the semester. The season opens with the Fall Faculty Gala at 7:30 p.m. September 1.

The parents, teachers, families and community members who gathered in support of Caze Elementary School and Washington Middle School all had a common plea — for the state to allow continued local control of the schools to improve student achievement.

Thanks to a successful capital fundraising drive, the Lampion Center no longer has to conduct its mission under leaky roofs and in a workspace designed when the Beatles topped the charts.