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A group of Tibetan monks from the Tashi Kyil Monastery in northern India will be in Evansville starting Friday.

Have you ever started scratching your arm purely because you saw someone else scratching theirs?

An Evansville woman was arrested Wednesday afternoon after police said she fled a traffic stop, crashed her car two separate times and then fought an officer when he tried to arrest her Wednesday afternoon.

An April 4 trial date has been set for a man facing a possible life without parole sentence in a Warrick County slaying case.

Officers from the Evansville Police Department and animal control rescued one dog on Wednesday that was in the home of one of the people who were arrested during a drug bust earlier this week.

Two new specialized engineering programs were approved Thursday morning by the University of Southern Indiana trustees.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence visited Evansville on Thursday to talk about creating a task force to combat the increasing abuse of drugs behind recent outbreaks of HIV and hepatitis.

When Carrie and Ken Ellspermann's son Caleb was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2013 at age 8, the family had a lot of things to get used to: frequent blood-sugar checks, careful attention to diet and the realities of a lifelong disease.

Evansville Fire Department crews are on their way to a fire at Kight Home Center, a large business located just off Morgan Avenue between Green River and Burkhardt roads.

When Jim Hunter lived in Oklahoma, he worked at a writer's conference whose keynote speaker was author Billie Letts. She'd written several novels including "Where the Heart Is" and worked at Southeastern Oklahoma State University as a professor. But upon meeting her, Hunter said he couldn't stop asking about her son, award-winning playwright Tracy Letts.