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-Fort Wayne Regional Dispatch Center- Accepting Applications for Dispatcher Position(s)
(Fort Wayne, IN)- The Indiana State Police is accepting applications for (3) Regional Dispatcher positions at the Fort Wayne Post Regional Dispatch Center (RDC) located at 5811 Ellison Road.
This RDC covers the eleven counties that comprise the Fort Wayne Post (Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Jay, Huntington, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wells, and Whitley), as well as the seven counties that comprise the Peru Post (Cass, Fulton, Grant, Howard, Miami, Tipton, and Wabash).
Primary responsibilities of a dispatcher are to receive, record, and accurately dispatch information to police personnel, other law enforcement agencies, and other support services through the use of a Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) System, Records Management System (RMS), Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL), Geographic Information System (GIS) and other Regional Dispatch Center resources.
A high school diploma or GED equivalent is required as well as the ability to be seated in a confined area for extended periods of time. Two years of public safety communications experience preferred.
Pay starts at $38,532.00 per year, and may be adjusted based on education, experience, and training. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, retirement plans and accrued time off.
*Applications are only accepted via online portal. Deadline for applications is Friday May 27, 2022.
Eagles heading to NCAA II Super Regional
EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Southern Indiana Softball swept two games from No. 8-seeded Saginaw Valley State University Saturday to win the NCAA Division II Midwest Region #1 Tournament and clinch a spot in next week’s NCAA II Midwest Super Regional.
The top-seeded Screaming Eagles (47-11), who earned their third trip to the super regionals and first since winning the national championship in 2018, came out of the elimination bracket to defeat the Cardinals, 5-0, in the opener to force an “if necessary” game. They rallied from a 2-1 deficit to earn a 7-2 win in the deciding game.
USI will host No. 3-seeded Grand Valley State University in the best-of-three super regional Thursday-Friday at the USI Softball Field. Game one on Thursday will be 1 p.m., while game two on Friday is a noon start. The third game, if necessary, would be Friday at 2:30 p.m.
USI 5, SVSU 0
USI played small ball to get on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first inning of the opening game. Sophomore outfielder Mackenzie Bedrick (Brownsburg, Indiana) drew a lead-off walk and scored the first run following a sacrifice bunt, base hit and sacrifice fly by junior pitcher/designated player Allie Goodin (Evansville, Indiana).
Saginaw Valley State (36-20) had the bases loaded with one out in the top of the third, but Goodin was able to get out of the jam to keep the Eagles in front.
Senior third baseman Mary Bean (Chicago, Illinois) led the bottom of the third inning off with a solo home run, while a solo home run by sophomore first baseman Lexi Fair (Greenwood, Indiana) to lead off the sixth inning put the Eagles in front, 3-0. Sophomore catcher Sammie Kihega (Greenfield, Indiana) hit a two-run home run four batters later as USI went up, 5-0.
Goodin (15-3) earned the win after blanking the Cardinals through 4 1/3 innings of work. Freshman pitcher Josie Newman(Indianapolis, Indiana) picked up her third save of the year after holding the Cardinals scoreless through 2 2/3 innings of work.
USI 7, SVSU 2
Despite jumping out to a 1-0 lead with a first-inning tally, the Eagles found themselves playing catchup after the Cardinals struck for two runs in the top of the fourth frame.
USI, however, responded as Goodin drove in sophomore outfielder Mackenzie Bedrick (Brownsburg, Indiana) for the second time to tie the contest in the fifth inning.
The Eagles took the lead two batters later when Kihega hit a three-run shot over the right-centerfield fence. USI tacked on two more tallies in the sixth inning as freshman outfielder Kennedy Nalley (Huntingburg, Indiana) hit an RBI-triple into the gap in right-center, while Fair had a successful suicide squeeze in the next at-bat to give the Eagles a comfortable 7-2 cushion.
Newman (16-3) got the win after allowing two runs off five hits in seven innings of work. She had six strikeouts in the victory.
Trailblazers close out regular season with impressive sweep over John Wood CC
VINCENNES, Ind. – The Vincennes University Trailblazer baseball team took the field at Jerry Blemker Field for one last time during the 2022 Spring regular season Saturday afternoon and did not disappoint on Sophomore Recognition Day.
Vincennes picked up two wins and completed the four-game weekend sweep over John Wood, winning game one of the day 6-2 and taking game two 12-0 in five innings.
VU got on the board first in game one of the day when sophomore Ryan Bartley (Tuscola, Ill.) led off the third inning with a single.
Bartley would later steal second and score on an RBI single by freshman Colton Evans (Henderson, Ky.).
Vincennes would add another run in the inning when sophomore Peyton Lane (New Paris, Ohio) drove in sophomore Connor VanLannen (Clinton, Ind.) to give the Trailblazers an early 2-0 lead.
VU would add more to their lead in the fourth, scoring four runs in the inning on a two-RBI single by VanLannen and a sacrifice fly by Evans. Sophomore Josiah Sizemore (Cambridge City, Ind.) also scored in the inning on a wild pitch as Vincennes held a 6-0 advantage.
John Wood would attempt to mount a late comeback, scoring a pair of runs in the sixth, but were unable to cut into the VU lead as the Trailblazers took game one of the day 6-2 and clinch the No. 6 seed in next week’s Mid-West Athletic Conference (MWAC) tournament.
Freshman Dawson Blaylock (Eaton, Ohio) got the start on the mound in game one of the day and had a really impressive outing on the mound, throwing six plus innings, allowing two runs on four hits and striking out three.
Freshman Eli Steimel (Sullivan, Ind.) entered the game in the seventh to close out the game, throwing one inning of hitless baseball and striking out one batter.
VU looked to close out the regular season strong in game two of the day and wasted little time getting going at the plate as the first three batters of the game (Ethan Burdette (Linton, Ind.), Connor VanLannen and Peyton Lane) all reached on singles to start the bottom of the first.
All three Trailblazer batters would come around to score in the inning, one on a sacrifice fly by freshman Jordan Roth (Delphi, Ind.) as VU opened up game two with a 3-0 lead.
Vincennes added more to their lead in the second, with Ryan Bartley leading off with a single and scoring on a wild pitch.
Ethan Burdette and Peyton Lane would each score their second runs of the game later in the inning on a two-RBI triple by Colton Evans that gave VU a 6-0 lead after two innings of play.
The Trailblazers continued to pile on in the third, sending 10 batters to the plate and scoring four runs in the inning, including Burdette’s third run in as many innings as VU held a commanding 10-0 lead.
VU would score again in the fourth, plating a pair of runs with back-to-back doubles by Bartley and freshman Will Egger (Terre Haute, Ind.).
John Wood looked to avoid the run rule loss in the fifth, loading the bases with one out before Vincennes closed out the game on a 9-3-6 double play to come away with the 12-0 win to close out the regular season.
Freshman Jake Stuteville (Rockport, Ind.) took the mound in game two and threw a very efficient four and one-third innings, allowing only three hits and striking out three on just 44 pitches.
Freshman Caleb Moore (Wentzville, Mo.) closed out the game, getting the final two outs on the fly ball double play without allowing a hit.
“I’m extremely proud of the way our guys battled all weekend,†VU Head Baseball Coach Chris Barney said. “Especially our sophomores. These two games today were complete team victories.â€
“Knowing that we had clinched our spot in the tournament yesterday, our goal as a team game-by-game was to just improve our seed,†VU sophomore shortstop and Northern Kentucky commit Peyton Lane said. “We were playing more loose out there today and I thought it was a much more fun way to play baseball when we are all having fun. No one was getting down, everybody was picking each other up in the dugout constantly, so it was a great way as a team to go into next week the way we are playing.â€
Todd Rokita Works With Bipartisan, Binational Colleagues On Border Failure
Todd Rokita Works With Bipartisan, Binational Colleagues On Border Failure
Attorney General Todd Rokita worked with bipartisan, binational colleagues on the border failure this week at a collaborative summit near the southern border. Joined by 5 bipartisan attorneys general from US states and 14 Mexican attorneys general, the event hosted important discussions about human trafficking, drug policy, the cartels who are taking advantage of our open southern border and opportunities for binational legal cooperation. Â
“We are directly interacting with my Mexican counterparts and Mexican non-governmental organizations who acknowledged, among other things, that President Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy was effective in reducing the sex trafficking of children,†said Attorney General Rokita. “This summit gave me the ability to hear that the drug cartels are driving a significant amount of this crime to inland U.S. states, like Indiana, a lot of the Fentanyl they are sending is originating in China, and the Left’s open-border insanity makes it possible on a grand scale. There was no disagreement from anyone that enforcing our border would dramatically improve the situation for both Mexican citizens and US citizens, like those living in Indiana.â€Â
It is estimated that half of illegal aliens entering the US at the southern border are from countries other than Mexico and Central America, utilizing Mexico as a land bridge to the US. Â
“For example, children from other countries are also victims of Biden’s refusal to enforce the rule of law at the border,†Attorney General Rokita said. Â
Summit participants expressed concern for what they see as an increase in children’s organ harvesting and reported that 80% of women are sexually assaulted while journeying to and across the southern border. Approximately 60% of children have been violated by the time they are trafficked across the border. Â
Attorney General Rokita said participants discussed how parents of illegal alien children are sold the American dream for their kids by the cartels, told that if they trust their kids to the cartels, the kids will have a new, rich life in the US. Instead, kids are then told that their parents didn’t make full payment for their trip and they must now be sexually exploited in order to compensate the cartel for their journey. It’s reprehensible and those in charge of our country are allowing it to happen because of their open border insanity.Â
“Many of those kids and the drugs end up in Indiana, and it’s just as despicable for statewide politicians, woke corporations, and Indiana’s fake news to ignore these atrocities,†said Attorney General Rokita. “We are all border states when it comes to the effect of open borders.â€Â
Illegal aliens who cross the southern border reach Indiana within 48 hours. The current construction of I-69 in Texas means they will arrive even more quickly to Indiana, the Crossroads of America.
  As fentanyl overdoses, drug trafficking, and human trafficking increase across Hoosier communities, the problem must be addressed at its root. Â
Attorney General Rokita continues to fight the Biden administration’s weak policies regarding illegal aliens and has joined two multistate lawsuits to date that would force the Biden Administration to enforce our southern border. Just this week, he announced an 18-state amicus brief, filed with the United States Supreme Court, in support of President Trump’s successful “Remain in Mexico†policy.  Â
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ALL THE GRASS IS GREENÂ
ALL THE GRASS IS GREENÂ
GAVEL GAMUTÂ By Jim Redwine
MAY 15, 2022
I like brown grass. It matches the unfallen brown leaves I don’t have to rake and the brown stagnant water in the pond that hides my fish from the ravenous blue heron. Also, brown grass does not engender chiggers. Ah, chiggers, Mother Nature’s reminder that we humans are, in fact, at the top of the insect world’s food pyramid. Here’s how the internet waxes eloquent about chiggers:
“They bite their human host (who invited them?) and by embedding their mouthparts into the skin cause intense irritation with intense itching.†Ugh!
The omniscient internet says chiggers prosper in grasslands, like the Osage County, Oklahoma prairie, and are most numerous in early summer when the grass is heaviest; you know, like now! I have been doing my own fieldwork on chiggers since the mowing season has returned. I can attest that for once the internet is correct; chiggers proliferate in tall green grasses.
My ankles still display chigger bites from those halcyon childhood summer days when I would gayly traipse through the green prairie grasses in short pants and bare feet while the chiggers were rejoicing at the opportunity to embed their heads permanently into my skin and scar me physically and mentally for eternity. Surely someone should have kept me out of tall green grass for the first ten years of my life and surely I should not be communicating with chiggers now as beautiful dry brown grass turns into tall green chigger heaven.
Unfortunately, I cannot convince Peg our yard looks just fine with waving green stems interspersed with golden dandelions. She insists that I do battle with the vegetation that is being protected by battalions of chiggers as ferocious as Ukrainian freedom fighters. I don’t get it. Peg plants countless flowers and even decorative grasses while she insists I attack our yard with a smoking, noisy grass decapitating Kubota dragon. No wonder the chiggers launch counter attacks. I say let bygones be bygones. I’ll forgive those childhood chiggers if today’s marauders will leave me alone. But how can they if Peg demands I destroy their homes?
I say the blame for my chigger discomfort falls squarely upon Peg’s pathological need to impress the neighbors. Neighbors? We live in the country! Our cabin is a quarter of a mile from the main county road. Nobody ever sees our yard unless you count FedEx and UPS drivers who deliver Peg’s ever regenerating plants for her to plant and the chiggers to nest in. If I did not mow the yard all summer no one would see or care; well, except Peg of course.
But the real problem is not Peg. The real problem is the United States government that can send out trillions of borrowed dollars to encourage people not to work and trillions of borrowed dollars to help Ukrainians blow up Russian tanks, planes and ships but cannot spend a Depression Era dime to eliminate chiggers. It is time we returned to those thrilling days of yesteryear when instead of spreading armaments we spread insect killer, not DDT, of course.
Let’s hear it for dead chiggers and live, itch-free people. That’s a better campaign slogan than “Ban the U.S. Supreme Court†or “Raise a statue to Sammy Alito.†Well, excuse me a moment. I’ve got to go get Peg to type up this column for the paper and I can see out the window she is gleefully planting even more insect habitat.
p.s. Gentle Reader, Peg and I have two upcoming book signings for our new historical novel, Unanimous for Murder, that is a sequel to JUDGE LYNCH!. The first is May 17, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Osage County Historical Society Museum at 700 Lynn Avenue in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The second is May 20, 2022 at Capers Emporium, 602 Main Street, New Harmony, Indiana from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Please drop by and say hello!
For more Gavel Gamut articles go to www.jamesmredwine.com
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The 21st Annual Pride Prom Was A Huge SuccessÂ
The 21st Annual Pride Prom Was A Huge SuccessÂ
The Tri-State Alliance held the 21st annual Pride Prom on April 23. 2022. Â According to TSA President Julie Robinson, over 1,000 middle and high school students attended the event, making it the largest prom in our region.
“Pride Prom” was created to provide a safe dance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students to attend. The event is sponsored by the TSA Youth Group, which is a safe place for LGBTQ middle and high school students and their straight-supportive friends. The youth group meets every Saturday of the year from 7 pm-9:30 pm at the TSA offices, 501 John Street Suite 5, Evansville, IN 47713.
For more information email 3statealliance@gmail.com, call or text 812-480-0204, or send a message on Facebook messenger.
For updates, follow the Tri-State Alliance on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, or check out the group’s May newsletter at TSAGL.org online.