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Kayla Roell Makes History with Win at Lawrenceburg Speedway
Roell won the sprint car race on Saturday night. Kayla Roell. Photo via Kayla Roell Racing Facebook page. (Lawrenceburg, Ind.) - History was made on Saturday night at The Burg. Kayla Roell became the first female to win a sprint car feature since the Lawrenceburg Speedway switched to a 3/8-mile...
Beryl’s Remnants Spawned 4 Indiana Tornadoes, Including an EF-3: NWS
MOUNT VERNON, Ind. (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Beryl spawned at least four tornadoes in Indiana, including an EF-3 twister with winds as high as 140 mph (225 kph) that tore through a small city in the state’s southwestern corner, the National Weather Service said. The tornado...
Derecho brings damaging winds, EF-1 tornado in Quad Cities
QUAD CITIES, Iowa/Ill. (KWQC) - The US National Weather Service in Davenport confirmed an EF-1 tornado in the Quad Cities metro. The storm Monday which moved across Iowa and Illinois into Indiana and Ohio has also been classified as a derecho by the Storm Prediction Center. A derecho is defined...
First-time Indiana delegate digs into Republican National Convention role
MILWAUKEE – First-time delegate Daniel Elliott of Martinsville, Indiana, wore his Texas Boot Company boots on the floor of the Republican National Convention on Monday as former President Donald Trump received the official nomination for president. “I always wear my cowboy boots,” Elliott, Indiana's state treasurer, told IndyStar. “I doubt very many people...
Jim’s Journal, July 16th, 2024
Congratulations are due to several teams of local high school volleyballers, with their teams earning top honors from the Indiana High School Volleyball Coaches’ Association, for doing exceptionally well in the classroom last school year, ’23-’24. In our part of the state, those outstanding academic squads include Batesville, Jac-Cen-Del, Oldenburg Academy, South Ripley, and Greensburg. Each of those teams reached a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or higher.
Indiana Barn Foundation gets selected for $100,000 grant
INDIANA (WTWO/WAWV)— Indiana Landmarks has decided to give their Local Leadership Challenge Grant to the Indiana Barn Foundation for staffing assistance. Indiana Landmarks has been giving this grant out since the late 1990s to help give funding to organizations focused on preservation work. With this money the non-profit will be hiring its first full-time executive […]
Assisting Veterans: Indiana Program Eases Back-to-School Financial Burdens
Indiana veterans who are facing financial hardship and struggling to provide essential school expenses for their dependent children can take advantage of the Military Family Relief Fund Back-to-School Program. Helping Veterans and Their Families. The Military Family Relief Fund Back-to-School Program aims to aid Indiana veterans who are going through...
State employment at record high, restored to pre-pandemic levels
(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — The number of state employees in Indiana has recovered from pandemic lows and superseded pre-pandemic records with over 32,000 Hoosiers employed by state government agencies. There were 32,075 employees working for 80 different state agencies and departments as of July 12, according to the Indiana Transparency Portal. This count is the highest […]
OLNEY SUMMER SWIMMING FROM OVER THE WEEKEND
This past weekend, the Olney Tigersharks dominated the Carmi Invitational Swim Meet in summer swimming:. Olney triumphed over Carmi with a score of 768 to 374. Fairfield secured third place with 369 points, followed by Wabash Valley in fourth (202) and McLeansboro in fifth (26). GIRLS. Olney outpaced Fairfield with...
Pistol Shoot Raises Funds for Young Leader Scholarship
The Young Leader Committee of the White County Farm Bureau held its 14th Annual Young Leader Pistol Shoot at the Carmi Rifle Club on Saturday, July 13. Nineteen shooters participated in this year’s event, which raised funds to support the Young Leader Collegiate Scholarship. This year’s event was a...
Worship 24/7 Expands To Houston With Help From Hope
Portland, OR-based Christian broadcaster Worship 24/7 is expanding its partnership with Hope Media Group, first formed in October 2023, to expand Worship 24/7’s programming to HMG-owned signals in Houston and Evansville, IN. In Houston, Worship 24/7 will be heard on Hope Media’s KSBJ-HD2 and 91.3, while in Evansville, the...
Divers recover body of Evansville teenager from Patoka Lake
EVANSVILLE — The Indiana Department of Natural Resources and Dubois County law enforcement are investigating the apparent drowning death of an Evansville teenager. In a news release published Monday morning, the IDNR said officers were dispatched to Patoka Lake at 1:43 p.m. Sunday "for a person going underwater and not resurfacing."
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