EVANSVILLE — Police are investigating after a driver struck and killed two pedestrians Thursday night near the intersection of North Fulton Avenue and West Florida Street. The incident was reported to law enforcement at 8:34 p.m., according to Evansville-Vanderburgh Central Dispatch. Officials have not publicly identified either pedestrian who was struck and killed. “The driver […]
EVANSVILLE — After a man allegedly ambushed and killed Evansville firefighter Robert F. Doerr II in 2019, investigators said he monitored police radio chatter using a smartphone app while he made his getaway. Such a tactic illustrates part of the rationale that law enforcement agencies around the country have used to cloak their radio transmissions […]
EVANSVILLE — An Evansville Police Department officer resigned earlier this month after an audit showed he used Clearview AI facial recognition technology for “personal purposes” over a span of months, Chief of Police Phil Smith disclosed during a news conference Tuesday. Smith told reporters that the officer, Michael Eric Dockery, had used the powerful software […]
The National Weather Service says severe thunderstorms are expected Sunday evening in the Tri-State. Here’s what forecasters are saying about the severe weather threat. When will severe thunderstorms arrive in Evansville and Henderson? One model posted by the National Weather Service showed storms firing up west of the Tri-State around 5 p.m., then moving through […]
EVANSVILLE – The man accused of stealing a truck and then was apprehended by an Evansville police K9 Thursday is the same person who once testified in court that he was the gunman in a 2014 Warrick County murder. Shawn Michael Grigsby, 35, was arrested Thursday morning and preliminarily charged with auto theft, resisting law […]
EVANSVILLE – A Florida man has been arrested and preliminarily charged with rape and strangulation after police say he attacked a woman at a West Side apartment complex. Jerrode Stephone Barker, 33, of Tampa, was booked into the Vanderburgh County jail Saturday afternoon. According to an affidavit filed in the case, a woman told police […]
EVANSVILLE – An Evansville man has been arrested after police say he fatally stabbed a motel employee he said tried to sexually assault his girlfriend. Dewayne Bruce Whitney Jr., 36, was booked into the Vanderburgh County jail Saturday night and preliminarily charged with murder. According to the affidavit filed in the case, Whitney told both […]
It’s 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Brad Byrd is dressed for work in a gray suit, white dress shirt and dark tie with blue dots. In two hours − as he has done thousands of times before − he will go on the air to anchor the weeknight news. But for the moment, he’s talking about […]
EVANSVILLE — Former fire chief Mike Connelly’s decision to retire last year amid an active harassment complaint from a subordinate meant he retained the financial benefits of being a public employee, but it’s difficult to know the exact total he walked away with. Connelly’s pension is a private record under Indiana law, but his salary […]
EVANSVILLE — The Southwest pocket of Indiana is receiving $45 million in state grant funding to focus on growth in four counties. The Southwest Indiana Regional Development Authority, a group including Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties, applied for funding in February from the Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative. SWIRDA’s proposal theme was to […]
5:10 p.m.: Traffic backups around Evansville, Indianapolis People may have no trouble leaving the Bloomington area, but are likely to run into some traffic backups if they are taking Interstate 69 north to Indianapolis or south to Evansville. We’re getting reports of standstill traffic on 865 and NB 65. This is from a live camera […]
Less than two weeks away, Evansville and surrounding cities are hosting events leading up to the total solar eclipse. Taking place on April 8, multiple cities are in the path of totality. Totality begins in Evansville around 2:02 p.m. and will last until 2:05 p.m. that day. Here’s a list of eclipse-related events throughout the […]