Category Archives: Local News
30th/Northwood Trail Opens in Jasper
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the city of Jasper celebrated the opening of 30th/ Northwood Trail Thursday. The 1.6-mile asphalt and concrete trail was constructed by the city with he...
Aug 14, 2025
Indiana Republicans Speaking Out Against Redistricting
Several Republican lawmakers are speaking out against a proposal to redistrict the state's congressional boundaries. Vice President JD Vance met with Governor Mike Braun and other Republican leaders l...
Aug 14, 2025
VTFD Chief Tim Smith Receives Fire Chief of the Year Award
Vincennes Township Fire Department Chief Tim Smith is the recipient of the Fire Chief of the Year Award from the Great Lakes Division of the International Association of Fire Chiefs. The Great Lakes D...
Aug 13, 2025
Indiana Achieves Unprecedented Growth in Third Grade Literacy Rates
Indiana is celebrating a significant milestone in education, with third-grade literacy rates seeing an unprecedented increase. According to the latest IREAD assessment, 87.3 percent of third-grade stu...
Aug 13, 2025
Daviess Co. Arrests
Washington Police arrested a Washington man Tuesday for Battery with a Deadly Weapon and Battery Causing Serious Bodily Injury. 28-year-old Brandon Jerome Cooney is being held without bond in the Davi...
Aug 13, 2025
Indiana ICE Protest
A group in southern Indiana gathered outside the Jeffersonville ICE facility Tuesday to protest what they believe are inhumane immigration enforcement and detention practices. The group, Do Something ...
Aug 13, 2025
Attorneys For Roy Lee Ward Trying To Pause His Execution
The attorneys for Roy Lee Ward are trying to get his October 10th execution paused. The defense team put in a filing with the Indiana Supreme Court to "recall" his tentative execution date based on ne...
Aug 13, 2025
Braun Says Republican Lawmakers Seriously Considering Redistricting
Governor Mike Braun says Republican lawmakers are seriously considering redrawing Indiana's congressional maps. He says he has not decided if he will call a special session and adds it depends on what...
Aug 13, 2025
WIN Energy REMC Announces WIN for the Community Program
WIN Energy REMC is announcing a new program giving non-profit, non-political organizations in rural Clay, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Pike, Posey, Sullivan, and Vigo counties the opportunity to request volu...
Aug 12, 2025
Call Before You Dig
Digging damages nearly 1,000 utility lines every day across the country, affecting both professional excavators and homeowners. The 811 service connects callers to local utility companies, which mark ...
Aug 12, 2025
This Day in Country Music
On this day July 24, 1957
Born on this day was Pam Tillis country music singer-songwriter and actress, (she is the daughter of country music singer Mel Tillis). Originally a demo singer in Nashville, Tennessee, she scored the 1991 hit "Don't Tell Me What to Do", and has since c...
Jul 24, 2025
On this day June 24, 2000
Dixie Chick Natalie Maines married actor Adrian Pasdar at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada for 55 dollars.
Jun 24, 2025
On this day June 22, 2011
Glen Campbell announced he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. This news came five months after Campbell announced his retirement from the music business.
Jun 22, 2025
On this day June 21, 1976
Reba McEntire married Charlie Battles at the First Baptist Church in Stringtown, Oklahoma. They had their honeymoon in Texas, where they promoted her latest single to local radio stations.
Jun 21, 2025
On this day June 20, 1949
Born on this day in Tuskegee, Alabama, was Lionel Richie, singer, songwriter and one time member of the Commodores. Kenny Rogers scored the 1980 crossover country hit with the Richie written and produced track "Lady". Richie released his tenth studio a...
Jun 20, 2025
On this day June 20, 2007
presented the to Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Don Williams and songwriter Harlan Howard at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. Buck Owens received the Jim Reeves International Award.
Jun 20, 2025
On this day June 19, 2006
Taylor Swift released her debut single "Tim McGraw" the lead single from her self-titled debut album. Swift wrote the song during her freshman year of high school, knowing that she and her senior boyfriend would break up at the end of the year when he ...
Jun 19, 2025
On this day June 19, 1954
"I Don't Hurt Anymore" by Hank Snow began a 20 week run at #1 on the Country Best Seller list. Also on the chart, "One by One" by Red Foley and Kitty Wells began a 21 week run at #2 on same chart, managing a single week at #1 later in the year.
Jun 19, 2025