Evansville Courier News

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INDIANAPOLIS — The two candidates seeking the Indiana House District 74 seat are sparring over the value of experience.

A Southwest Indiana legislative race to replace Dave Crooks could tip the balance on which party controls the Indiana House.

Fights in the Civic Center, threats against officials, one very angry parking ticket recipient and deadly shooting sprees in other places may combine to bring a big change.

Evansville and Vanderburgh County are fine tuning a plan to bring two security checkpoints much like those used at the courthouse to the Civic Center administration building.

The checkpoints at the building¿s front and rear plaza public entrances would be supplemented by resolution-enhanced inner and outer cameras and electronic keys with which employees could use nonpublic entrances.

A well-stocked pond offers Dubois, Ind., graveyard shift factory worker Gary Spurgeon a chance to unwind after a his early morning shift.

With a record 2,200 participants registered — up from about 1,870 a year ago — the 2008 half marathon was expected to raise $90,000 to $100,000 for the YMCA of Southwestern Indiana, said race director Barb Dykstra.

With the swelling numbers, it also achieved its overarching theme: Promote fitness within the area.

Race participants arrived at the top of Reitz Hill early Sunday morning, taking shuttle buses from Downtown Evansville or parking at Reitz High School. Runners stretched and lined up by pace time around the school's drive before the sun was up, readying for the 7 a.m. start.

The male caller left his telephone number at the Vanderburgh County Commissioners¿ office, recalls Commissioners President Jeff Korb. But when Korb returned the call, he got what he apparently perceived as a death threat. As a result, sheriff¿s deputies did extra patrols in the neighborhoods where Korb and Commissioners Troy Tornatta and Bill Nix live. ¿He did not like the way we handled the patient safety ordinance,¿ Korb said, referring to an ordinance stating a doctor may not perform an abortion in Vanderburgh County without having hospital admitting privileges in the county or an adjacent county.

A St. Clair County judge has denied a woman's request to withdraw her guilty plea in the death of her pregnant friend, the unborn child and the victim's three children.

The Elberfeld sewer system was built in the 1970s and is now in need of improvements to be in compliance with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.

Kentucky DOT uses old bridge to make a new one.

Job fair Tuesday in Evansville

A preview of upcoming meetings in the city and county.

A former hospital administrator and community volunteer who was honored earlier this year as the Evansville African American Museum Board Member of the Year has died.

Right to Life sponsored its annual Life Chain Sunday on Evansville's East Side.

Tristan Mannix’s idea of a Sunday morning fun run will never be mainstream.

But that didn’t keep the former track and cross country standout at the University of Southern Indiana from breezing to the win Sunday in the YMCA’s fifth-annual Evansville Half Marathon.

Weaving down the sidewalk homestretch of the 13.1-mile race to high-five spectators and the motorcycle cop that became the last person the winner passed, Mannix was having fun at the front.

Flash fire at Somerville Central in Gibson County

Not too early to plan for spring

Patrick Beyers and his 12-year-old daughter, Maggie Beyers, have different names for caged turkeys they pulled along Franklin Street in the Fall Festival's pet parade, Saturday. Maggie calls the big colorful male "Tom" and and the smaller hen "Tiny." To her father, however, they're "Lunch" and "Dinner." Maggie insists they won't wind up on a platter this Thanksgiving or any other day for that matter.

A lot has changed since the University of Southern Indiana¿s student newspaper, The Shield, began publishing. The newspaper is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month.