Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current) back issues from August 2007:
SPECIAL SESSION ON TAXES BACKED HOUSE REPUBLICANS PROPOSE MORE RELIEF
Aug 01, 2007; ... INDIANAPOLIS - Saying the planned tax-rebate check should beconverted into a fall tax credit, Indiana House Republicans onTuesday called for a special session of the Legislature to passadditional property tax relief. The minority House Republicans have proposed $200 million in ...
PLACE TO SPAY, NEUTER PETS HUMANE SOCIETY WORKING TO FIX PROBLEM
Aug 01, 2007; ... After years of planning, the Vanderburgh Humane Society opened aclinic this week to spay and neuter animals at a lower cost. Executive Director Kendall Paul is describing it as "the mostimportant program we've ever done." "We've been dreaming about doing this for years," she ...
A VACANT OUTLOOK ECONOMY SUFFERING FROM WANING BIG EVENTS
Aug 01, 2007; ... With fewer heads in hotel beds, less tourism dollars has beenflowing into the local economy through restaurants, attractions,stores and entertainment venues. Vanderburgh County's major hotels missed out on more than aquarter of a million dollars in revenue during the first six ...
ALCOHOL IS OFTENTIMES THE FORGOTTEN DRUG
Aug 01, 2007; ... In 2005, Gov. Mitch Daniels formed the Indiana Meth Free Coalitionto fight the state's methamphetamine problem. Daniels should be applauded for his efforts to curb methproduction and addiction. It's a terrible drug that can lead to alife of crime, mental and physical illness and, ...
SPENDING MONEY THE ISSUE: DEMOCRATS LAGGING ON BUDGET MEASURES, TOO. OUR VIEW: GOP SHOULDN'T POINT FINGERS.
Aug 01, 2007 ... Congress will soon knock off for its August recess, and theevidence to date is that the Democrats aren't much better than theRepublicans at getting their required work done. Congress' basic annual chore is to pass a budget blueprint andthen enact the 12 spending bills that fund the ...
SHAPING THE SCHOOL DAY THE ISSUE: NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND IMPACTING CURRICULUM. OUR VIEW: FEDS NOW A BIG INFLUENCE IN EDUCATION.
Aug 01, 2007 ... When the No Child Left Behind Act was passed, it was seen, forgood or ill, as a federal intrusion into an area that wastraditionally a local and state prerogative - elementary andsecondary education. Now comes evidence that in five years the act has reshaped, oftenin major ...
BRIEFS
Aug 01, 2007; ... Evansville Ozone alert issued today Along with high heat and humidity today, ozone pollution is alsoexpected to be high. Local officials are expecting that ozone mayreach levels unhealthy for active children and adults and people withrespiratory diseases such as asthma and ...
'EMACIATED' PIT BULL IS FREE TO A GOOD HOME
Aug 01, 2007; ... Free to a good home: A year-old pit bull in desperate need of loveand care. When Animal Control officers found him tied up in an Evansvillegarage Saturday, he hadn't eaten for weeks. The tan dog they've named Jon is "just emaciated beyond belief,"said Animal Control head Tom ...
ETHANOL SPILL SEEPS INTO GROUNDWATER
Aug 01, 2007; ... Ethanol spilled Monday on Evansville's West Side has leaked intoand mixed with the groundwater. Indiana Department of Environmental Management officials and anenvironmental consulting team were working Tuesday to remove theaffected water. No one is in danger, said IDEM public ...
ALLEGED MURDER ACCOMPLICE SEEKS VALIDATION OF MARRIAGE MISTY DAVIS' AIM IS TO HAVE CHARGES DROPPED
Aug 01, 2007; ... OWENSBORO, Ky. - Misty Davis, the Pike County woman charged withhelping her boyfriend, Nicholas Harbison, escape after he killedthree people, is now asking a Kentucky judge to validate her andHarbison's marriage license. Davis wants Daviess Circuit Judge Henry "Mac" Griffin to ...
COURT APPOINTS DEFENDER FOR MOTHER IN NEGLECT CASE
Aug 01, 2007; ... A woman accused of child neglect after Vanderburgh Countysheriff's deputies found her autistic son playing naked outside herreportedly filthy home appeared in court Tuesday. Laura K. Peach, 41, of 18509 Old Princeton Road, Haubstadt, Ind.,was appointed a public defender, Christian ...
DRIVER GIVEN OUR YEARS IN FATAL CRASH [Corrected 08/09/07]
Aug 01, 2007; ... An Evansville man will serve four years in prison followed bythree more in an alcohol abuse probation program for charges stemmingfrom an accident in which hit and killed a teenager driving her mopedto work. Leonard D. Martin, 20, of Evansville, previously pleaded guilty ...
C.J.'S BILL PICKS UP SUPPORT
Aug 01, 2007; ... Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., reports he has picked up 14additional sponsors in the House of Representatives who are joininghim to get C.J.'s Home Protection Act passed into law. On June 21, Ellsworth announced he was introducing legislationrequiring manufactured and mobile homes to ...
HER FIRST DAY ON JOB NOVA CONNER IS FIRST WOMAN TO SERVE ON COMMISSION
Aug 01, 2007; ... BOONVILLE, Ind. - A single red rose lay on the desk amid theneatly stacked binders and reports Tuesday to greet new WarrickCounty Commissioner Nova Conner, the first woman to fill theposition. "The women in the office got it for my first day. Men, theywouldn't appreciate it, but ...
GROUP PUSHES PASSAGE PROGRESS
Aug 01, 2007; ... Hoping to create momentum for the Pigeon Creek Greenway and breakgridlock among local governments, Roberta Heiman will come to today'sVanderburgh County Council meeting loaded for bear. Heiman, a former Courier & Press reporter who says she wrotestories about the Greenway for 30 ...
MOM ACCUSED OF WELFARE FRAUD FOURTH CASE IN RECENT MONTHS
Aug 01, 2007; ... Another local mother - the fourth in recent months - has beenaccused of welfare fraud. Melissa Rose, 37, of 2505 Adams Ave., faces charges of Class Cfelony welfare fraud and Class D felony theft. According to Brett M. Yonkus, a special agent with the SocialSecurity ...
BRIEFS
Aug 01, 2007; ... Evansville Motorcyclist injured in crash with pickup A motorcyclist was listed in serious condition Tuesday night aftera crash with a Ford Ranger on the Lloyd Expressway at McDowell Road. Richard A. Ray, 21, was taken to Deaconess Hospital with injuriesdescribed ...
TONGUES WAGGING OVER CANINE GRAVE IN CITY CEMETERY
Aug 01, 2007; ... Only during the dog days of summer could a little rat terrierwho's been gone for years cause so much trouble. But, then, it's hard for some to let a dead dog lie when it'sburied in the Uniontown City Cemetery. People started talking when the owner recently put up a ...
GOP'S GOODE SEEKS ELLSWORTH'S SEAT
Aug 01, 2007; ... Republican Greg Goode is expected to announce in Evansville andTerre Haute today that he will challenge Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., for re-election. Goode, executive assistant to the president of Indiana StateUniversity, will make his Evansville announcement at 11:30 a.m. atThe ...
TRI-STATE COULD DRAW ON RICH PAST FOR OWN HISTORICAL PLAY
Aug 01, 2007; ... DAYTON, Tenn. - Jurors file back in the courtroom following eightdays of testimony in the sensational case that's been dubbed "themonkey trial." They find John Thomas Scopes guilty of teachingevolution and suggest the high school teacher be fined $100. The judge pounds his gavel, ...
AMERICAN GENERAL SEES GROWTH CEO SAYS MORE EXPANSION POSSIBLE IN DOWNTOWN EVANSVILLE
Aug 01, 2007; ... With plans for a new Downtown office building and the acquisitionof a British firm earlier this year, American General Finance ispoised for growth, the company's chairman and chief executive saidTuesday. Rick Geissinger, who has led the consumer finance company since1995, spoke ...
OBITUARIES
Aug 01, 2007 ... LOCAL Kenneth Fredrick Adams Kenneth Fredrick Adams, 84, of Evansville, passed away Monday,July 30, 2007, at 6:59 a.m. at Deaconess Hospital. Kenneth was born February 7, 1923, in Connelsville, Missouri, toFred and Leona Adams. He graduated from Princeton High ...
HIRING UNDER WAY FOR CALL CENTER AT&T CALLING
Aug 01, 2007; ... Construction on AT&T's new $22.3 million state-of-the-art customerservice call center is just getting started in earnest in the oldSam's Warehouse building at 5101 Vogel Road. But already a total of200 managers and other associates are hired for the startup of someof the operations ...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Aug 01, 2007; ... EVANSVILLE ONB promotes four Angie Briggs, Paula Briscoe, Terry Goebel and Martha Hendersonhave been promoted from assistant vice presidents to vice presidentsat Old National Bank. Briggs will continue as the bank's reconcilement/processingmanager. She graduated from ...
JOCKEYS DIDN'T HELP ELLIS OR THEIR FUTURE
Aug 01, 2007; ... Jockeys at Ellis Park made a mistake last Friday when they refusedto ride the final five races on the 10-race card after a suddendownpour. It was a disservice to fans, horsemen, management, and tothemselves professionally and financially. The Horsemen's Benevolent and ...
HOOSIER RECRUITS DRAWING IN FANS
Aug 01, 2007; ... Brent Dalrymple's phone hasn't stopped ringing. Indiana University hoop junkies can get a first-hand look at theHoosiers' highly-touted recruiting class when they play some area all-stars in an exhibition game at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at North DaviessHigh School outside Elnora, Ind., ...
DAY GETS WORKOUT WITH BEST
Aug 01, 2007; ... There is no such thing as a summer vacation for soccer playerslike Memorial High School senior Mitch Day. He made a verbal commitment to play for coach Mike Jacobs at theUniversity of Evansville, attended the prestigious Adidas-ESP (EliteSoccer Program) camp in California and a ...
SPORTS BRIEFS
Aug 01, 2007; ... BASKETBALL USI women draw Tiffin, Mount Olive The University of Southern Indiana women's basketball team willplay Great Lakes Region rival Tiffin University along with MountOlive College at the Bahamas Sunshine Shootout in Nassau on Dec. 19-20. Tiffin was 14-15, Mount Olive ...
GERMAN FOOD FAVORITES RECIPES FROM THE 1920S AND THE 21ST CENTURY SPICE UP VOLKSFEST MENU
Aug 01, 2007; ... Two 13-foot-long alpine horns, costing $3,000 apiece and handmadein Switzerland, are ready for opening ceremonies at 6 p.m. Thursdayat Germania Maennerchor's Volksfest. There's a new tent that will provide shade in the outdoor beergarden when frothy mugs and "Ein Prosit" toasts ...
WHAT'S YOUR WORKOUT? COUPLE MAKE IT A TEAM EFFORT
Aug 01, 2007; ... Exercise is a couples activity for Bob and Jeanne Gerst, who'vebeen married for 55 years. Since the beginning of the year, both been coming to the DowntownYMCA to participate in the Silver Sneakers fitness program for seniorcitizens. "I used to play golf and tennis, and ...
HOME-SCHOOLED HEALTH PARENTS SHOULD SET STANDARD FOR EATING, EXERCISE HABITS OF CHILDREN
Aug 01, 2007; ... Healthy school lunches are changing the way children feel aboutfruits and vegetables, but experts say the child obesity rate won'tdrop until families adopt better habits at home. The number of overweight children roughly tripled from the mid-1970s to 2004, according to two Centers ...
DUCK, DUCK, GOODWILL FAMILY CENTER AIDED BY RACING RUBBER
Aug 02, 2007; ... In 2004, Candy Langston filed for divorce. She had no income andno place to go. For three months, she and her son, Donnie Ray,bounced between living with her estranged husband and her mother. She worried, she said, "about my son most of all. That was thereal concern right ...
VECTREN'S NATURAL GAS HIKE APPROVED
Aug 02, 2007; ... Indiana regulators on Wednesday approved a natural gas base ratehike that will result in a bill increase of less than $4 a month forVectren's Southern Indiana customers. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission approved most of apreviously announced settlement with the Office of ...
BLUECATS OWNERS SHUT IT DOWN CITY GETS BLAMED AS TEAM IS FOR SALE
Aug 02, 2007; ... Five frustrating years in the red finally caught up to the quartetof owners of the Evansville BlueCats. After two weeks of deliberatingon the franchise's future, the owners informed staff on Wednesdayafternoon that the minor-league football team will cease operationsand be put up for ...
MENDENHALL PROPERTY SEIZED HANDCUFFS, SEX TOYS, BLOODY ITEMS EXTRACTED FROM HIS TRUCK
Aug 02, 2007; ... Handcuffs, sex toys and items with what is believed to be blood onthem are among hundreds of belongings seized during a search of atruck owned by suspected serial killer Bruce Mendenhall. Also Wednesday, the investigation of the trucker's backgroundexpanded to Anderson, Ind., as ...
HOW WILL BATBOY, ELVIS, PEERS GET PUBLICITY?
Aug 02, 2007; ... I sent an e-mail to the entire newsroom recently. The subject linesimply read: "A dark day for journalism." In the e-mail itself, there was no message, just a Web link to astory about another newspaper about to close its doors. But this isn't just any newspaper. It's the paper ...
CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE EXPANDS DESPITE VETO THREATS, 6 MILLION TO BE ADDED
Aug 02, 2007; ... House Democrats pushed through legislation Wednesday to add 6million lower-income children to a popular health insurance programwhile making deep cuts in federal payments to Medicare HMOs, defyinga veto threat from President Bush. On a 225-204, mostly party-line vote, the House ...
FEDERAL DEBT THE ISSUE: NOW IT IS THE DEMOCRATS' PROBLEM. OUR VIEW: THEY WILL HAVE TO GRIT THEIR TEETH AND KEEP BORROWING.
Aug 02, 2007 ... The Democrats knew when they took over Congress in January thatsometime during the year they would have to raise the ceiling on thenational debt. After all, raising the limit, which allows theDepartment of the Treasury to keep borrowing, was done four times infive years under President ...
PLANTING CROPS, REAPING SUBSIDIES THE ISSUE: FARM POLICY COMES AT TIME OF RECORD-HIGH PRICES. OUR VIEW: IT'S TIME FOR PRESIDENT TO STICK TO HIS PRINCIPLES.
Aug 02, 2007 ... In President Bush's first year in office, he issued a statement ofagricultural principles articulating what he said would be the basisfor his farm policy. He wanted to move away from subsidies and direct payments to asystem of savings accounts that would act as insurance for ...
SOLDIERS GIVE CONFLICTING TESTIMONIES
Aug 02, 2007; ... FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - A soldier in prison for conspiring to rape anIraqi girl and kill her and her family testified Wednesday thatstatements he previously made implicating a comrade in the attackwere false. Spc. James Barker, serving an 80-year prison term through a pleaagreement ...
GOODE MAKES IT OFFICIAL
Aug 02, 2007; ... The man Republican leaders call their likely challenger to Rep.Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., is a 34-year-old former congressional aidewho helped the impeachment effort against then-President BillClinton. Greg Goode, who announced his candidacy Wednesday before cheeringsupporters in ...
'HEART EPISODE' FELLS WHICKER COMMISSIONER RESTING AT HOME
Aug 02, 2007; ... Vanderburgh County Commissioner Mike Whicker was taken byambulance from the commissioners office in the Civic Center toDeaconess Hospital on Wednesday morning for what he later called a"heart episode." In a written statement sent after his 1 p.m. release fromDeaconess, Whicker, ...
TWINS TO AUDITION FOR 'AMERICAN IDOL'
Aug 02, 2007; ... They look alike, down to their slender 5-foot-5 swimming anddiving team frames. They've got the same lively brown eyes, wavy black hair andengaging smiles. And they've been singing together since they were 3 and beltingout "Kokomo" for their parents, David and Barbara ...
JOINT GREENWAY MEASURE A STEP CLOSER
Aug 02, 2007; ... Breaking a logjam that had frustrated Pigeon Creek Greenwaysupporters, the Vanderburgh County Council on Wednesday passed aproposed city-county ordinance establishing a new Pigeon CreekGreenway Advisory Board. The "interlocal" ordinance, which has already been passed by ...
EVIE HELPS KEEP EVANSVILLE BEAUTIFUL SPREAD ANTI-LITTER WORD
Aug 02, 2007; ... After seeing a mascot for Columbus, Ohio's litter campaign, SusanHarp began thinking with her husband about what she could create touse in her kindergarten classroom at Delaware Elementary School aboutthe issue. She thought and talked about it for a year, then one night she ...
MENDENHALL'S EX-GIRLFRIEND PLEADS GUILTY TO BAD CHECK CHARGE
Aug 02, 2007; ... The ex-girlfriend of suspected serial killer Bruce D. Mendenhallappeared in Edwards County Circuit Court on Tuesday, pleading guiltyto a 2004 felony bad check charge. Lori Darling Young, 42, now of Franklin, Ky., was placed on a yearof probation and ordered to pay $1,663.57 in ...
READERS SUGGEST WAYS TO HELP CITY'S NEEDY SCHOOLKIDS
Aug 02, 2007; ... A while back, I wrote about the struggles kids and teachers facein Evansville's Center City schools. I blamed poverty and suggested that if folks want to see animprovement in test scores and dropout rates, they'll find ways tovolunteer their time and energy to help these needy ...
SHOOTING SUSPECT OUT ON BAIL
Aug 02, 2007; ... A Newburgh man facing an attempted murder charge for shooting anassault rifle during a party is free on bail and the family of hisallegedly intended victim say they are in fear. Christopher Alan Mitchell, 23, of 5455 W. Esche Drive, allegedlyfired about 12 rounds from an assault ...
BRIEFS
Aug 02, 2007; ... Evansville Police officer sworn in early before Iraq tour Timothy Paul Wolfe, a 25-year-old resident of Washington, Ind.,was sworn in Wednesday as a new Evansville Police Department officer. Wolfe was sworn in early because of his upcoming militarydeployment. He is a ...
OBITUARIES
Aug 02, 2007 ... Local Shirley Dale Beck Shirley Dale Beck, 72, of Evansville, passed away on Tuesday, July31, 2007, at his residence. Shirley worked at GEO Transportation as a diesel mechanic. Heattended Mill Road Baptist Church. Shirley was a U. S. Air ...
WOULD-BE ROBBER GETS WALLET, NO CASH
Aug 02, 2007 ... An Evansville man was robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morningoutside an Evansville bar, although the suspect didn't make off withany cash, according to a police report. Quinn Dawson, 28, told police he and another member of his bandwere sitting in a car shortly before 5 a.m. near ...
BRIEFS
Aug 02, 2007; ... Evansville Boonville man killed in Indiana 66 crash An 84-year-old Boonville, Ind., man was killed when his FordRanger veered into a concrete spillway Wednesday afternoon in WarrickCounty. Randall Sanders died at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville,where he was ...
JOSHUA ACADEMY MAY GET STANLEY HALL BUILDING
Aug 02, 2007; ... Joshua Academy is interested in making the former Stanley Hallschool building its permanent home. A feasibility study and capital campaign, however, must comefirst, Executive Director Pam Decker said Tuesday. The Evansville-Vanderburgh School Board voted Monday to ...
WORKSHOP WILL EXPLORE SUICIDE WARNINGS
Aug 02, 2007; ... A free community program Friday will explain the warning signs ofsuicide and ways to interact with young people who are depressed ormay be considering taking their lives. The Indiana Youth Institute is sponsoring the 90-minute workshopin response to the surge in suicides in ...
MAN IN CHILD MOLESTING CASE IS ON PROBATION
Aug 02, 2007; ... After he was sentenced to a lesser charge on Wednesday, anEvansville man originally accused of child molesting reportedstraight to probation. Jackie Ray Brown Sr., 58, of Evansville, pleaded guilty in June tosexual battery, a class D felony. He was originally also charged ...
SCHOOLS EMBRACE FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN
Aug 02, 2007; ... FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Schools across Indiana are gearing up forexpanded full-day kindergarten programs - classes that districts canbetter afford this year because of more state funding. The Indiana General Assembly passed a two-year state budget inApril that included $75 million more ...
EVANSVILLE ISSUES OZONE ALERT TODAY
Aug 02, 2007 ... The Evansville area today is under an air quality alert for ozoneand fine particulate pollution. The Evansville EnvironmentalProtection Agency and Vanderburgh County Health Department areexpecting pollution levels that may be unhealthy for active childrenand adults and people with ...
ZOO ANIMALS WILL BE THEME OF UNITED WAY'S ART PROJECT
Aug 02, 2007 ... The United Way of Southwestern Indiana has announced the theme forits 2008 Art of Caring project will be zoo animals. The Art of Caring project began in 2002 as both a fundraiser and athank-you event for the community to enjoy. Each year during thesummer, fiberglass sculptures ...
BACK TO SCHOOL BLITZ SLATED FRIDAY
Aug 02, 2007 ... The annual Back to School Blitz, an event which collects schoolsupplies, new clothes and hygiene items for needy students headingback to school, will be from 6 to 10 a.m. Friday in the Courier &Press parking lot, 300 E. Walnut St. Organizers also will collect monetary donations ....
ANGEL MOUNDS TO HOST CONCERT, CAR WASH
Aug 02, 2007 ... Angel Mounds State Historic Site will host two events this weekend-- a concert Saturday and a car show on Sunday. The Saturday event, Bluegrass and Barbecue, runs from 3:30 to 10p.m. Performers include Shadowens & the Dodson Duo at 3:30 p.m.,Southern Comfort at 4:30 p.m., Randy ...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Aug 02, 2007; ... EVANSVILLE Realty Group hires Kelley Greer, Peggy Forbes, JoAnn Brunson and Ryan Beck are newRealtor associates with The Realty Group. Greer previously was employed by the Evansville-Vanderburgh SchoolCorporation as a nurse at Harrison High School. She graduated ...
VECTREN OPTS OUT OF PLANT [Corrected 08/09/07]
Aug 02, 2007; ... Vectren Corp. said Wednesday it would pull out of a partnershipwith Duke Energy to build a coal gasification power plant in KnoxCounty. The Evansville-based utility had an option to own 20 percent ofthe plant. But, after studying the company's future electricgeneration ...
TOYOTA TOPS FORD IN U.S. SALES
Aug 02, 2007; ... DETROIT - Toyota sold more cars and trucks in the United Statesthan Ford did in July, but the month wasn't particularly good foreither of the automakers. Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. sales plunged 19.1 percent in July from ayear earlier, the company said Wednesday, as high gas prices ...
LARGE FIELD SET FOR HIGH PURSE 14 HORSES TO START C.C. EMERALD
Aug 02, 2007; ... The final parts for Saturday's $600,000 Old National Back ClaimingCrown at Ellis Park came together Wednesday during the post positiondraw conducted in the track's clubhouse dining room. A total of 72 horses were entered in the seven-race series. Ownedin partnership by the ...
MOST VALUABLE LEGS REITZ'S JULIAN WILL PLAY RUNNING BACK
Aug 02, 2007; ... Although it was only 9:30 in the morning, the heat was alreadypounding Reitz High School's football players on Wednesday, the firstday full contact was allowed by the Indiana High School AthleticAssociation. Streaming with sweat, the Panthers ran up and down the side of ahill to ...