U.S. Senator Todd Young of Indiana and a group of bipartisan lawmakers have reintroduced the Tornado Observation Research Notification and Deployment to Operations Act. The Hoosier Republican claims the act would improve the forecasting of tornadoes and other hazardous weather. Senator Young says the TORNADO Act would ...

A judge is temporarily halting President Trump's plan to freeze federal aid. On Tuesday, a federal judge granted an administrative stay, pausing Trump's plans at least through Monday. The freeze was set to take effect Tuesday at five p.m. Eastern. Prior to the ruling, Indiana Governor Mike Braun issued a statement Tues...

Indiana Governor Mike Braun signed an executive order Tuesday directing state law enforcement to cooperate with ICE in targeting people who have committed crimes after entering the country illegally. Braun stated that the policy is aimed at going after the worst offenders first, following the lead of President Trump. A...

The Indiana Breast Cancer Awareness Trust has awarded Jasper's Memorial Hospital Foundation a grant of just under $19,000 to provide screening and diagnostic services for low-income Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center patients who reside in counties within the hospital's service area. These grant funds will provid...

A bill under consideration in the Indiana Legislature could raise your food delivery bill if approved. The bill includes 35 provisions, one of which would allow counties to impose a fee on deliveries from services like DoorDash and Amazon. Counties could charge between 50 cents and $1.00 per delivery, potentially raisi...

Heart of Jasper is accepting applications for the Facade Grant Program. The Commercial Property Improvement Program and Home Improvement Program is intended to provide financial assistance for exterior building façade improvements in the Downtown and Riverfront Areas of Jasper. The goal of the program is to stim...

A Jasper man is facing numerous charges following a run-in with Jasper Police on Saturday. Police say 44-year-old Tony Grannan left the scene of a crash at 15th and Newton. Grannan was located on Wilhelm Strasse and was found to be intoxicated. He was arrested on charges of Obstruction of Justice, OWI, OWI Endangerment...

Indiana lawmakers have advanced a bill to raise the minimum teacher salary in the state to 45-thousand dollars. A Senate committee has approved the measure. Current law sets educators' minimum salary at 40-thousand dollars. The increase would align with Governor Mike Braun's proposed budget and raise pay for about six ...

The Triple A Motor Club says the average price of gas in Indiana on Tuesday stood at $3.00 a gallon, a penny lower than Monday and 12 cents lower than Tuesday's national average. It was also nine cents lower than a week ago, a penny lower than a month ago, and four cents higher than a year ago. Triple A also says the a...

An Indiana House committee has voted to add an extra 25-million dollars to a revolving loan fund. The fund is designed to incentivize housing construction in the state. The Indiana Association of Realtors testified in favor of the bill to add the money, noting Indiana's median home price has grown to 244-thousand-dolla...

The Daviess County Sheriff's Office arrested a Littlerock, California man Monday on a warrant for two counts of Child Molesting and one count each of Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated Endangerment and Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated. 50-year-old Jose Lozano Saucedo is being held on $252,000 bond in the Davies...

The suspect who was shot and killed in a Jasper County traffic stop on Sunday was identified Monday as 42-year-old Matthew Huttle from Hobart. Huttle was recently pardoned by President Trump for storming the Capitol on January 6th. Both he and his uncle were arrested for their involvement in the Capitol riots but later...

The Daviess Community Hospital Wound Care Center is now using a new MIST Therapy, a non-invasive treatment designed to promote faster healing for chronic and hard-to-heal wounds. MIST Therapy uses low-frequency ultrasound delivered through a saline mist to stimulate the body's natural healing processes. The advanced tr...

The Vincennes Mayor's Office advises that beginning on or around Wednesday crews with Ragle Construction will begin a retrofit project on the traffic signals at 6th Street and College Avenue and 7th Street and Washington Avenue at College Avenue. The work includes new cabinets, pedestrian push buttons and signal heads,...

The Indiana DNR says a Greencastle man died early Sunday morning when his golf cart fell through the ice on Glenn Flint Lake in Putnam County. Upon arrival, responders located and removed the golf cart's operator, 60-year-old Jeffrey Nowak of Greencastle, from the water and began life-saving efforts. Nowak was transpor...

Spring Mill State Park will offer an event that explores the hardships winter presented for soldiers of the Civil War on February 22nd and 23rd. The Pioneer Village will be open from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. each day with an Abraham Lincoln reenactor giving a speech at 12:45 p.m. in the Gristmill each day. A winter tactica...

A Henderson, Kentucky man is facing charges in connection with a three-vehicle crash Sunday night on State Road 165 in Gibson County. The Gibson County Sheriff's Office says 26-year-old Yoaris Lopez was intoxicated when he veered left of center and struck another vehicle head-on. A third vehicle was struck by a tire. T...

Two parents in Evansville are charged with neglect after they refused to pick their child up from a hospital. Amanda Osmon's son, who is 13, was admitted to the hospital for a mental health check after she and the boy had gotten into a fight Saturday evening. Once that was done, no one came to pick him up. A social wor...

Washington Police arrested a Washington man Sunday on a warrant for Failure to Appear in Court. 43-year-old Chad Warren Mattingly is being held on $50,000 bond in the Daviess County Security Center. 173 inmates were being held in the security center early Monday morning.

Many Americans are not only living paycheck-to-paycheck, but they're also living tax refund-to-tax refund. A new Credit Karma survey finds that nearly 40 percent of taxpayers rely on their refund to get by. According to the IRS, the average refund in 2024 was a little over 31-hundred dollars.

The IRS will start accepting and processing 2024 income tax returns today. The official deadline to file your taxes is still April 15th. The agency did note individuals and businesses affected by the wildfires in Southern California now have until October 15th to file their taxes

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is warning the public about scams related to California wildfire relief efforts. Raoul says if you are planning to donate, make sure the charity is providing direct aid or raising money for other groups. Donors may want to avoid the middleman and give directly to charities that hav...

A Greene County home was destroyed by fire Sunday night. The Eastern Greene Fire Territory says firefighters were called to the 2000 block of State Road 45 South around 6:00 PM. Flames were coming from the roof of the structure which consisted of two attached single-sided mobile homes with an addition on the back. The ...

Kia is recalling over 80-thousand of its Niro vehicles for issues with its seatbelts and airbags. Federal safety regulators say adjusting the front passenger seat could cause serious safety risk by damaging the wiring which controls critical features including the airbag and seat belts. That could prevent airbags from ...

A Vincennes woman has died following a two vehicle roll over crash Friday evening on US 41 at the North Patoka exit in Gibson County. WFIE-TV in Evansville reports the Vanderburgh County Coroner identified the victim as 53-year-old Amy Wilson of Vincennes. The Gibson County Sheriff's Office says multiple people were in...

The Gibson County Sheriff's Office says multiple people were injured Friday evening in a two vehicle roll over crash on US 41 at the North Patoka Exit. Names have not been released. The sheriff's Office says a car pulled from Main Street onto US 41 into the path of an SUV. The SUV struck a guard railed and flipped onto...

Our Community Foundation has announced the second of fifteen second-semester Teaching Innovator grant recipients. Washington Upper Elementary received a $250 grant to support Sweet Steps - Transforming Art into Real World, where students will learn about the artistic process from concept to creation. Washington Upper E...

The Daviess County Sheriff's Office arrested a Freelandville woman Friday on a warrant for three counts of Failure to Appear in Court. 44-year-old Tiffany Demoss is being held on $20,000 bond in the Daviess County Security Center. The Daviess County Sheriff's Office arrested 32-year-old Samantha Gray of Washington Frid...

The Indiana Sheriffs' Association is awarding college scholarships to qualified high school seniors or college students who are pursuing a degree in criminal justice studies. There will be about forty $750 scholarships awarded to qualifying students throughout the state. To qualify, an applicant must be an Indiana resi...

K9 Barker with the Jasper Post of the Indiana State Police will receive a bullet and stab protective vest thanks to a charitable donation from non-profit organization Vested Interest in K9s. K9 Barker's vest was sponsored by Deanne and Martin Barley of Fountain City, Indiana and will be embroidered with the sentiment &...