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Darius Suggs, one of two Evansville brothers charged with murder in a May 6 fatal shooting, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of reckless homicide Thursday.

During Jon Stewart's 16-year run with the Daily Show, which ends Thursday night, Evansville has cropped up on the irreverent "fake news show" a handful of times.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is progressing on a study of traffic flow along the U.S. 41 North Strip at Henderson.

A 29-year-old man has been charged with public nudity and public indecency, accused of exposing his genitals to at least two women in the parking lot of Eastland Mall last month.

The former owner of a dilapidated warehouse being sued by the city has agreed to pay for the cost of demolishing the structure.

Evansville-based Springleaf says its planned acquisition of OneMain Financial may be delayed.

Paul McManus, the Evansville man whose 2002 conviction and death sentence were overturned by a federal appeals court, agreed to plead guilty in return for life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday in Vanderburgh Circuit Court.

Six years ago, Ashley Frary pulled an all nighter to write what would eventually become her first full length musical. Before opening its current location, D'Alto Studio of Performing Arts ran a summer theater camp for kids at Evansville Day School. It needed an original show to perform at the end of the weeklong camp — at that point, getting the rights to a written show was too expensive — and Frary was tasked with the job.

A new exhibit on display at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art explores the artist's views on the creation of invented worlds. "Envisioned Worlds: Lithographs from the Hokes Archives" opened at the end of July and will be on display through September 5 and features the work of Beauvais Lyons, a professor of art at University of Tennessee, Knoxville and director of the Hokes Archives. Lyons will also host a workshop and lecture at the University of Southern Indiana on August 28.

The work of several regional artists will be on display at the Evansville Museum as part of a partner exhibition with the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana. "Working Together" -- an exhibition that juries the recent work of regional artists that is in its 22nd year — opens this weekend with a reception from 6 — 8 p.m. at the Evansville Museum. The exhibit runs through October 11.