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BREAKING NEWS: Bally’s Remains Open After Car Drives Off Bally’s Parking Garage

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Updated November 25, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Operations are returning to normal at Bally’s after a strange incident this morning.
In the midst of the normal morning routine at Bally’s Casino, the sense of normal disappeared in one frightening moment when a car came crashing through the roof of the conference center. That car came from the top floor of the attached parking garage.
At the time of the crash, Koorsen Fire and Safety was hosting a conference for building inspectors and firefighters at the site. Koorsen is the fire protection company for Bally’s, and they aided in getting the building’s systems turned off. Firefighters and others attending the conference rendered aid at the scene.
The vehicle hit a concrete barrier, causing it to drop through the roof of the conference center, followed by the Ford SUV. The driver of the vehicle was the only injury.
A crane was brought in during the afternoon to lift the SUV and the concrete barrier out of the conference center.
The unanswered question is, “Why?” Police are putting together all of the information, looking at video footage, and planning to talk to the driver to determine what happened.

Bally’s was able to continue with normal casino operations through the day today and the parking garage will remain close until further notice.

Bally’s released the following statement: “We are currently investigating an incident involving a vehicle that drove off the seventh floor of our parking garage and will provide updates as necessary. Upon initial review, the incident appears to be the result of driver error. There are no signage or structural issues with the parking garage. The safety of our guests and staff remains our top priority.”

CenterPoint Energy awards nearly $220,000 in grants to communities across its four-state footprint to fund safety projects 

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CenterPoint has awarded approximately $3.5 million to support more than 1,700 projects since launching the Community Safety Grants program 

 

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – July 22, 2025 –This year, CenterPoint Energy’s Community Safety Grants Program awarded 99 grants totaling nearly $220,000 to communities in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas. Grants are awarded to local government agencies located within CenterPoint’s service area for community safety equipment and projects.   

 

Since launching the program in 2003, CenterPoint has awarded approximately $3.5 million in grants for more than 1,700 efforts.  

 

“At CenterPoint, safety is our core value, and this drives every effort we undertake as a company for the customers and communities we are privileged to serve,” said June Deadrick, CenterPoint’s Vice President, Community Relations. “Through our Community Safety Grant Program, we appreciate the opportunity to fund vital safety equipment and projects helping emergency responders and public officials save lives and improve the health and safety of our customers.”  

 

Grants have enabled communities to fund various projects, including public AEDs (automated external defibrillators), water rescue materials, personal protective equipment for first responders, traffic control signs, utility locate devices and extraction tools to rescue people after vehicle crashes.   

 

CenterPoint awards program grants up to $2,500 to local government agencies working to fill funding gaps for safety materials and projects. 

 

FIRST WEST NILE VIRUS CASE OF 2025 REPORTED IN VANDERBURGH COUNTY RESIDENT  

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Mayor Terry Opens New Round of Forward Together Grants to Support Local Nonprofits

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Evansville Mayor Stephanie Terry announced today that her administration is now accepting applications for a new round of Forward Together grants.

Mayor Terry created the initiative in 2024 to strengthen local nonprofit efforts aligned with the City’s priorities of neighborhood revitalization, public safety, and poverty reduction. This year, eligible nonprofit organizations may apply for up to $35,000 in funding to support programs in one or more of the following categories:

  • Home Weatherization
  • Food Access
  • Services for people experiencing homelessness, and
  • Literacy.

The application deadline is Friday, September 19, at 5:00 p.m., and application materials are now available on the City’s website at www.evansvillegov.org/forwardtogether. Completed applications should be submitted via email to Ariah Leary, Director of Community Affairs and Special Projects, at aleary@evansville.in.gov.

“In communities across Evansville, nonprofit organizations are on the front lines, offering hope, opportunity, and critical services to those who need them most,” Mayor Terry said. “The Forward Together grant program is about amplifying that work. By investing in initiatives like literacy and food access, and by supporting organizations doing essential work around homelessness and home weatherization, we’re taking real, tangible steps toward building a more equitable and thriving city.”

The Forward Together program is funded by interest earned from American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds and reflects the City’s broader commitment to empowering grassroots solutions to systemic challenges.

All grant proposals will be reviewed by a volunteer committee before receiving final approval from the Mayor’s Office.


Evansville Mayor Stephanie Terry announced today that her administration is now accepting applications for a new round of Forward Together grants.

Mayor Terry created the initiative in 2024 to strengthen local nonprofit efforts aligned with the City’s priorities of neighborhood revitalization, public safety, and poverty reduction. This year, eligible nonprofit organizations may apply for up to $35,000 in funding to support programs in one or more of the following categories:

  • Home Weatherization
  • Food Access
  • Services for people experiencing homelessness, and
  • Literacy.

The application deadline is Friday, September 19, at 5:00 p.m., and application materials are now available on the City’s website at www.evansvillegov.org/forwardtogether. Completed applications should be submitted via email to Ariah Leary, Director of Community Affairs and Special Projects, at aleary@evansville.in.gov.

“In communities across Evansville, nonprofit organizations are on the front lines, offering hope, opportunity, and critical services to those who need them most,” Mayor Terry said. “The Forward Together grant program is about amplifying that work. By investing in initiatives like literacy and food access, and by supporting organizations doing essential work around homelessness and home weatherization, we’re taking real, tangible steps toward building a more equitable and thriving city.”

The Forward Together program is funded by interest earned from American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds and reflects the City’s broader commitment to empowering grassroots solutions to systemic challenges.

All grant proposals will be reviewed by a volunteer committee before receiving final approval from the Mayor’s Office.

 

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS Open government group launching public access hotline, hopes to ease PAC workload

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BY: MUÑIZ, Indina Capital 

 

A new hotline aims to help Hoosiers with public meeting and records questions — and buy recently installed Public Access Counselor Jennifer Ruby time to catch up.

The pilot project is operated by the Indiana Coalition for Open Government. The volunteer-staffed hotline will formally launch Aug. 1 but is already open for calls, President Zachary Baiel said Monday.

The coalition decided to take action as complaints of non-responsiveness and long wait times pile up among its own members and in the news.

Reach the hotline at 260-ASK-ICOG, or 260-275-4264.

“We convened a quick working group with ICOG and just said, ‘Hey, … it’s not hard to set up a phone number and do that sort of thing. Why don’t we try this?’” Baiel recounted.

“This gives us another way to connect with Hoosiers, which is already what we enjoy doing,” he added. “This might also alleviate the pressure on the PAC office.”

Removing ‘excuses’

The coalition was founded in 1995, with an informal luncheon organized by the Society of Professional Journalists’ Indiana chapter, according to the website.

It offers informational talks, webinars and other online resources, but focuses on aiding Hoosiers — answering questions, finding the right agency to contact, wording requests better, and so on. There’s no legal advice involved.

Baiel called the coalition “another voice, another perspective” to the governor-appointed PAC. It still directs people to the office for informal and formal advisory opinions, however.

Former PAC Luke Britt, who ran the office for about 12 years under previous Govs. Mike Pence and Eric Holcomb, announced plans to resign mid-February, WFYI reported. In late March, new Gov. Mike Braun named Indianapolis attorney Jennifer Ruby as the successor.

Ruby faces a daunting workload — and disgruntled Hoosiers.

Others are stepping in.

“We gave her a heads up, like, ‘Hey, don’t take offense to this or anything,’” Baiel said. “But, you know, she’s not blind, and I’ve seen plenty of the press around her … People aren’t getting responses. So we’re going to fill in the void.”

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There’s an accountability angle, too.

“If there’s anything we can do to help catch some of those people — that way, that doesn’t then become an excuse in terms of responding back to the public. Like, ‘Oh, we did so many of these really low-level calls a day, and that just eats up four hours, and we have no personnel, and we can’t do those,’” Baiel said. “You know, I like removing excuses, so this is another excuse that then can’t be used.”

He and two other members of the coalition’s board have committed to the hotline, with the goal of answering calls live or responding to voicemails day-of.

They’re using OpenPhone, a Voice over Internet Protocol provider, so that incoming calls will ring on their desktops or smartphone apps.

The project is billed as a 90-day pilot, but Baiel said he intends to keep it going. It will depend on costs, interest from board members and uptake from the public.

Epstein is Not About Epstein

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Freedom, Indiana – On Saturday, July 26th at noon, we will assemble at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis, to demand that our government stop lying, and stop keeping secrets about its corruption, blackmail, and a widespread ruling class culture of theft, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and rape.

It’s easy to see that promises to audit the Federal Reserve and Ft. Knox, major news stories like the Las Vegas mass shooting, catastrophes like 9/11 and the assassination of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. appear, disappear, and feed conspiracy theories.  It’s also easy to see that our government, while building a digital panopticon to monitor and control us, has itself become opaque and out of control.

From past revelations, we’ve already learned that our government has performed radiation and medical experiments on soldiers and citizens, has even started wars on lies, leading to uncountable needless deaths.  We’ve been warned from our nation’s founders through Eisenhower and JFK about nefarious actors building a shadow government in violation of constitutional and basic moral laws.  We did not heed their warnings.

While the proof is withheld from us, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that our today government is not merely corrupt, but also under the control of international actors with sick and murderous proclivities.

We’ve never had so much evidence of deceit from the self-contradictory mouths of our politicians.  We’ve never been closer to socioeconomic collapse, or WWIII.  We’ve never had a better reason to protest, and demand answers. 

We need revelations much more extensive and complete than the too-limited and quickly aborted Church Committee findings of 1975.  We demand our politicians open up and finally tell us the truth about who and what our government is, how it actually operates. We need to fix this mess before it collapses around us in the greatest tragedy of all – the end of the USA’s experiment with free people and a government on a leash of written law.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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Gov. Mike Braun Breaks Ground on Oak Street Village Housing Development

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READI 2.0 project progresses in southwest Indiana.

LOOGOOTEE, Ind. – Indiana Governor Mike Braun joined Loogootee Mayor Brian Ader and other community officials to break ground on Oak Street Village on Friday.

The development, funded by a $600,000 Regional Acceleration and Development Initiative (READI) 2.0 allocation and an $11.3 million Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) credit, is designed to provide accessible and affordable housing options to Hoosiers.

“The best economic development strategy is one that works closely with the local region, and I am excited that the Oak Street Village project is the product of that collaboration,” said Gov. Braun. “It was an honor to help break ground with the community leaders and partners in Loogootee, and I’m grateful for the partnership of local leaders alongside the state as we create more opportunity across Indiana.”

The Oak Street Village development will bring to life 50 one-, two- and three-bedroom units for families earning 30%, 50% and 60% AMI in Loogootee (Martin County).

The development will also feature a licensed childcare facility, pickle ball courts, and a public playground.

Construction began Friday, and the project is expected to be complete by November 2026.

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