Evansville IN

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Evansville Police say they found an 18-year-old with a gunshot wound Saturday. Officers say they were called to the 600 block of East Cherry Street around 1 p.m. because of shots fired. They say when they got there, they found the victim and got her medical...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - A man is facing several charges after police say he fired a gun outside an Evansville apartment building. Officers say they were called to the Arbors around 9:30 p.m. Saturday after several reports of shots fired. They say when they got there, 40-year-old Sherman Tate tried...

Henderson native David Wischer recently spent three weeks in Antwerp, Belgium, working alongside faculty and staff at the Royal Academy of Arts as a Fulbright Specialist. Wischer, an associate professor of digital and print media in the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky, said part of the reason he was there was to start working on a joint master’s...

Partly cloudy skies are expected tonight, with overnight lows dipping into the low 60s across Southern Indiana. Sunday morning will begin with partly cloudy skies before becoming cloudier in the afternoon, with highs soaring into the mid-80s. Winds will shift to the south-southwest, bringing much warmer air. Monday will see mostly cloudy conditions early, gradually giving way to partial sunshine later in...

More than two decades ago, five friends—community leaders all—began talking among themselves. And talking. And talking. Who, they wondered, would step into the shoes of the people who had been the lions of Henderson’s late 20th-century civic life?. People like Dr. John Logan, an irresistible force when...

HARMONY, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Mark Weaver is retiring after 30 years at a job he loved, Wendy’s in Brazil. His community held a retirement party on Saturday to show how much they appreciated his service. “It feels really good to have all these people here with me including my mom and everybody else here. Getting […]

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Local law enforcement and firefighters went head to head for the annual “Guns and Hoses” boxing event Saturday night. [Preview: EPD sergeant shares experience of 11 years in the ring at ‘Guns and Hoses’]. All proceeds from the event go to the...

(This history column first appeared in the April print edition of the Hendersonian.) The Henderson City Council fired the entire police force a month before it opened its first city hall in 1873. E.L Starling, in his 1887 history of the county, doesn’t address those turbulent times for the police...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - The Vanderburgh County EMA is putting out an alert this weekend to not do any outdoor burning, especially on Sunday. The concern right now is several factors: low humidity, mostly dry grounds and higher winds. All of that together can increase the probability for fire spread.

OWENSBORO, Ky. (WEVV) — Authorities with the Kentucky State Police are actively searching for an inmate who they say escaped from a corrections facility in Owensboro on Friday evening. According to officials, the escape occurred around 4:30 p.m. on April 10 at Dismas Charities, a residential reentry center. The...