The county's redevelopment commission is looking to expand its footprint.

Local officials are hoping to see even more dollars flow in for infrastructure repairs as part of the state's next round of Community Crossings Matching Grants.

FRANKLIN — When a crime scene or vehicle accident investigator looks into a crime or serious accident, the initial on-site investigation can take hours.

With 50 bills in hopper, some worry about 'top-down' approach to education by Indiana legislators and officials

Boy, dad, shot when gun discharges while wrestling

HGTV is known for making over houses, but now the home and garden TV network wants to make over a town, and Connersville wants to be it.

Private citizens who report concerns to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management now can do so anonymously. That could soon end.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana lawmakers are considering a bill that would undo a landmark Indiana Supreme Court ruling that affirmed that the shoreline of Lake Michigan is unquestionably owned by the state and held in trust for use by all residents.

TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska — There are no restaurants in Toksook Bay, Alaska. No motels or movie theater, either. There also aren't any factories. Or roads.

YARMOUTH, Maine — A massive elm tree nicknamed Herbie is long gone, but it is going to live on, thanks to cloned trees that are being made available to the public.

ATLANTA — Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday found leaders still wrestling over his contested legacy against the backdrop of a presidential election year.

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King banquet to feature ISU professors

Five more have filed to seek county offices later this year.

Local law enforcement officers are reminding residents that, regardless of the recent legalization of recreational marijuana in the neighboring state of Illinois, the drug is still illegal in Indiana.

Ollie Pickering, a native of Olney, Illinois, was a successful major league baseball player in the final years of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Following his major league career, Pickering settled in Vincennes, continuing to play ball in the minor leagues.

Members of the county’s Unsafe Building Board have overseen the demolition of another four eyesore properties.

Vincennes University will welcome the mother of Trayvon Martin to campus to kick off Black History Month.

The county council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to the addition of two deputies to the Knox County Sheriff's Department, the final step in a two-year process to implement new security measures at the courthouse.

Officials with the South Knox School Corp. are already looking ahead to warmer days.

Jamie Neal says the state of local business looks strong.

Lawsuit against IU given class action status

NEW YORK — Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted. What's more, it's been rising for two decades, and it's not clear when it will fall again.

BEDFORD — The difficult work of school consolidation didn’t end with the vote last week that approved closing four elementary schools and a middle school in North Lawrence Community Schools.

MONTGOMERY — The Barr-Reeve School Board has opened 2020 by beginning a march toward a new operations referendum during the May primary. The school system, which receives one of the lowest per pupil expenditures by the state, has been able for the last seven years to lower class sizes and ad…

City offices to be closed Monday

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The Urban Enterprise Association, it seems, is once again very nearly out of money.

County council members had hoped Tuesday evening to take advantage of Kathy Lane's expertise by appointing her to one of the three positions on the property tax appeals board.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's governor on Tuesday outlined to state legislators how to free up tens of millions of dollars to boost teacher pay but said he didn't want them to act on it until next year.

House backs abolishing all township assessor offices

Overspending can be a serious downer for your budget.

• The YMCA of Vincennes, 2010 College Ave., is now offering a dedicated time to evening pickleball players every Tuesday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Members get in free. Non-members pay a day pass fee of $7.

Hope it reopens this spring although usage 'may have plateaued'

A team of researchers is asking for data from cities and towns across Indiana to assemble the first state-wide map of urban forests and green spaces.

Bicentennial programs will continue through June

Franklin College President Thomas J. Minar was fired following his arrest this weekend in Wisconsin.

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Members of the Vincennes Community School Corp. Board of Trustees met bright and early on Monday morning for their annual reorganizational meeting and elected member Pat Hutchison to lead them into 2020.

The city fire department went on a record number of calls in 2019, fire chief Sonny Pinkstaff reported to members of the city’s Board of Works on Monday.

TERRE HAUTE — Ambulance lights flashed in the Terre Haute South Vigo High School automotive lab, but not for an emergency.