Category Archives: Local News
Sheriff's Office Warns Daviess Co. Business Owners of Magnet Sales Issue
The Daviess County Sheriff's Office is advising business owners there is a marketing company called "Five Fish" asking local businesses to buy advertising space on a magnet that will be distributed to...
Jul 01, 2025
Commission To Examine Accepting Several Illinois Counties to Indiana
A commission of six Hoosiers and five people from Illinois will examine the possibility of Indiana accepting several counties from Illinois after voters there approved seceding from the state. Illinoi...
Jul 01, 2025
Indiana Farm Bureau Says Fourth Of July Cookout Costs Up 5%
The Fourth of July cookout will cost Hoosiers five percent more this year than last year. Indiana Farm Bureau says feeding a group of ten people will cost 71-dollars-49-cents, slightly more than the n...
Jul 01, 2025
Indiana Cigarette Taxes Increase 200%
Smoking in Indiana is more expensive starting today. The state's cigarette tax has risen from nearly one-dollar to three-dollars, which is a 200-percent increase. The hike is part of the 2025 state bu...
Jul 01, 2025
Daviess Co. Arrests
Washington Police arrested a Washington woman Monday for Criminal Trespass. 22-year-old Alexis Fowler is being held on $5,000 bond in the Daviess County Security Center. Washington Police also arreste...
Jul 01, 2025
Seized Pike Co. Drug Money to be Put to Good Use
The Pike County Prosecutor's Office says $10,000 in seized drug money has been earmarked for various efforts benefiting the county. Over 33-hundred dollars will be deposited into the prosecutor's offi...
Jun 30, 2025
Death Investigation Being Conducted After Individual in Custody Dies
The Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division has requested the assistance of the Indiana State Police concerning an investigation into the death of a man in their custody. 48-year-old ...
Jun 30, 2025
Jasper Man Arrested for Domestic Battery and Strangulation
Jasper Police arrested a Jasper man Friday on two counts of Domestic Battery in the Presence of a Child and two counts of Strangulation. 30-year-old Yosmani Suarez was arrested Friday evening at his p...
Jun 30, 2025
Martin County Solid Waste Independence Day Schedule
Martin County Solid Waste will be closed Thursday, the 3rd, and Friday, the 4th for the Independence Day Holiday. However, it will be open 8 until 12 on Saturday, the 5th at the Loogootee location onl...
Jun 30, 2025
Another Execution Requested by State of Indiana
State attorneys have sent a request to the Indiana Supreme Court to announce the date for 52-year-old Roy Lee Ward to be executed for raping and killing a teenager in 2001. If the request is accepted,...
Jun 29, 2025
This Day in Country Music
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, 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
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 18, 1969
Glen Campbell was at #1 on the country album chart with The singers thirteenth studio album spent 11 weeks at #1 and 26 weeks on the chart. The album features session drummer Hal Blaine who has played on 50 #1 hits and worked with numerous artists in...
Jun 18, 2025