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Felony Charges For Vanderburgh County
Brandon Heath Whitledge
| Count 1 – HC – Domestic Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury to a Pregnant Woman : 5F : Pending |
Ricky Lamont Lockridge
| Count 1 – (Attempt) Residential Entry : 6F : Pending |
Sarah Elizabeth Fenwick
| Count 1 – Residential Entry : 6F : Pending |
Jonathan David Stokes
| Count 1 – HC – Possession of Methamphetamine : 4F : Pending |
Justin Lee Kunze
| Count 1 – Operating a Motor Vehicle After Forfeiture of License for Life : 5F : Pending |
Steven Ray Rose
|  | Count 1 – Intimidation : 5F : Pending | ||
|  | Count 2 – Intimidation : 5F : Pending | ||
|  | Count 3 – (Attempt) Battery by Means of a Deadly Weapon : 5F : Pending | ||
|  | Count 4 – Disarming a Law Enforcement Officer : 5F : Pending |
|  | Count 5 – Resisting Law Enforcement : AM : Pending |
Catherine Elizabeth Albert
| Count 1 – Unlawful Possession of Syringe : 6F : Pending |
William Lamar Thomas
|  | Count 1 – Resisting Law Enforcement : 6F : Pending |
Andrew Christopher Sheets
| Count 1 – Operating a Vehicle as an Habitual Traffic Violator : 6F : Pending |
Jayvon Jontay Gilmore
|  | Count 1 – Possession of a Narcotic Drug : 5F : Pending | ||
|  | Count 2 – Possession of a Controlled Substance : 6F : Pending | ||
|  | Count 3 – Carrying a Handgun Without a License : AM : Pending | ||
|  | Count 4 – Possession of Marijuana : BM : Pending |
Robert Lee Brehm
| Count 1 – HC – Possession of Methamphetamine : 6F : Pending | |||
|  | Count 2 – HC – Unlawful Possession of Syringe : 6F : Pending | ||
UE volleyball begins 3-match homestand on Friday
Aces open the weekend against Bradley
 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – After taking to the road for its first three Missouri Valley Conference matches, the University of Evansville volleyball team is at Meeks Family Fieldhouse for its next three contests. That stretch begins this weekend with a Friday match at 6 p.m. versus Bradley and a Saturday contest against Illinois State beginning at 5 p.m.
Last Time Out
– Facing Valparaiso on the road Saturday evening, the Purple Aces fell in a hard-fought match by a 3-1 final
– Giulia Cardona led UE with 17 digs and 16 kills while Alondra Vazquez added 14 kills and 8 digs…Taya Haffner had one of her top outings, recording 45 assists, 12 digs and a pair of service aces
Another 40+ Performance
– Freshman Taya Haffner fell just one shy of her career mark with 45 assists on Saturday at Valpo while adding 12 digs and 2 aces
– Haffner’s average of 10.80 assists per set continues to pace the MVC while ranking 22nd in the country and 5th among all freshmen nationally
– She rebounded nicely from a season-low 20-assist contest at Loyola to pick up 45 the next night…it marked the fourth time in the fall that she has had 40+ helpers
– The return home should be a positive for Haffner, who registered 13.2 assists/set in two home matches including 43 versus Murray State, her top total in a 3-set match
– Starting her college career in her hometown of Fort Wayne, Ind., Haffner averaged 12.33 assists and 3.00 digs on her way to a spot on the Purdue Fort Wayne Invitational All-Tournament Team
On the Cusp
– With a total of 1,141 kills in her career, Alondra Vazquez is knocking on the door of UE’s career top ten list
– Laura Seib (1982-85) is currently 10th on the Aces list with 1,215
– Vazquez is also quickly approaching the top ten list for digs – Vazquez currently stands with 1,076 in her career and is closing in on Erica Haukap (2002-05), who is 10th with 1,137
Holding Her Own
– Things are coming together for freshman Madisyn Steele, who has picked up 8+ kills in two of her last four outings
– Her career kill mark came against Murray State where she finished with 10 while most recently, she recorded 8 at Valpo
– Steele has hit .636 or higher in three of the last five matches
– She earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team at the home-opening Dunn Hospitality Tournament
– With 0.81 blocks per set, Steele is second for UE – she has picked up one solo and 24 block assists in the last 26 frames
Swimming & Diving Opens Season Saturday At EIU
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – After a record-breaking spring 2021 campaign, the University of Evansville swimming and diving teams will take to the pool for the first time this fall on Saturday, as the Purple Aces will travel to Charleston, Illinois to battle Eastern Illinois in a dual meet. The meet will begin at 1 p.m.
Evansville set three men’s school records and six women’s school records in the pool last season. Overall, the Purple Aces have broken 13 different school records combined in head coach Stuart Wilson’s first two seasons as head coach. The Purple Aces return 32 total letterwinners – 16 men and 16 women –including 11 different record-holders at UE.
“Training has been going very well so far this fall,” said Wilson. “We are working on several different areas that will help the team perform even better this season, and this team has total trust in the training that we are doing.
“The attitude of this team has been incredible. Getting back to training consistently has been a big breath of fresh air, and this team is excited to be able to do things that they couldn’t do last year.”
On the men’s side, junior co-captain Riccardo Di Domenico (Johannesburg, South Africa) returns after breaking the school record in the 100 butterfly (48:49), while also nearly breaking two of the oldest records on file at UE in the 100 (45.03) and 200 (1:38.38) freestyle events. Di Domenico’s freestyle times rank as the second-fastest in UE history, and were within tenths of a second away from records that have stood since 2001 at Evansville.
“As good as Riccardo has been for us, he still has even more room for improvement, which is a great thing to think about as a coach,” said Wilson. “He trains hard in every practice and never lets a good practice go to waste. I expect him to make more noise in the Mid-American Conference this year.”
Sophomore Jackson Caudill (Mount Sterling, KY/Montgomery County) returns after smashing the school record in the 1,000-free by over five seconds with a time of 9:37.82. Senior Oskar Menkhaus (Davidson, N.C./William A. Hough) also is a record-holder for UE, as he set the 500-yard free mark in 2020 with a time of 4:31.60. Sophomore Grant Kay (Ellicott City, MD/Hebron) will help add depth in the mid-distance freestyle events, having posted top 10 times at UE in both the 500 and 1,000-free. In all, UE has established new school records in three of the six freestyle distances in the past two years under Wilson.
“As good as our freestyle group has been, it has gotten even stronger with the freshman class coming in,” said Wilson. “I really believe that we will open some eyes in the conference in the freestyle event with the group that we have this year.
Senior co-captain Zeke Metz (Topeka, KS/Seaman) and junior Max Dehen (Ramsey, MN/Anoka) also own parts of relay school records at UE, and both will help in the IM discipline. Metz and Di Domenico will help lead a talented group of butterfly swimmers, as both senior EE Tan (Selangor, Malaysia) and junior Griffin Hammett (Loganville, GA/Loganville) posted times in UE’s career Top 10 a season ago. Grad student Pierce Lively (Ringgold, GA/Heritage) also owns one of the 10 fastest times in the 100 breast for UE, while junior Sam Leatherwood (Loveland, OH/Milford) posted the seventh-fastest time in the 100 backstroke last season.
On the women’s side, junior school record-holders Sage Moore (Lexington, OH/Lexington), Sarah Jahns (Lilburn, GA/Parkview) and Maya Cunningham (Yakima, WA/Eisenhower) anchor the various disciplines for UE. Moore, who earned honorable mention all-Missouri Valley Conference honors a year ago, set the school record in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:17.74) last spring, while also posting the second-fastest 100-yard breaststroke time (1:03.93) in school history.
“Sage is one of the hardest workers on the team,” said Wilson. “She gives everything that she has in the pool, dryland and in the weight room, and she has gained a lot more confidence this past year. She will once again be a leader for us this year.”
Cunningham, meanwhile, rewrote the record book in the 200 butterfly, as the honorable mention all-MVC swimmer broke UE’s school record by over a second with a time of 2:03.19. Jahns, another honorable mention all-Valley swimmer in 2021, meanwhile set school records in both the 1,000 free (10:14.99) and the 200 backstroke (2:00.65), shattering those records by seconds.
“Sarah is so competitive, and she does so much for our program both in the distance events and the backstroke,” said Wilson. “Maya has also been tremendous for us in the butterfly events, and both have been very consistent in training this fall.”
Honorable mention all-MVC relay record-holders Iryna Tsesiul (Minsk, Belarus – sophomore backstroke) and Jessie Steele (Houston, TX – senior freestyler) also return for the Aces. Senior captains Emily Vasquez (Huntsville, AL/St. John Paul II) and Nicolette Wickes (San Antonio, TX/Johnson) will provide leadership and depth in the freestyle and butterfly events. UE will also return four of its divers from a year ago – honorable mention all-MVC senior Maggie Franz (Mundelein, IL/Mundelein), fellow seniors Fae-Siri Keighley (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Sarah Kempf (Greenwood, IN/Center Grove), and sophomore Madison Rollett (Evansville, IN/Reitz).
Senator Braun introduces bill to accelerate FDA approval for COVID therapeutics
WASHINGTONÂ – Senator Mike Braun today introduced the ADAPT for COVID(Accelerated Drug Approval for Prescription Therapies for Coronavirus)Â Act to accelerate drug approval for treatments for COVID-19.
Several countries have launched efforts to develop vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, but any treatment developed in another developed country will still need to go through FDA’s burdensome approval process. That means that even when new treatments for COVID-19 developed abroad are safe, clinically effective, and can be manufactured safely and consistently, it will still be up to a full year before Americans can access them.
This bill authorizes the FDA to create an expedited approval process to approve an application of a drug that is intended to treat or prevent the coronavirus or another disease of epidemic potential that is currently authorized to be marketed in other developed countries (such as Israel, Australia, Canada, South Korea, and Japan). This legislation requires FDA to review and make a determination on an approval application within 6 months of receiving the application.
Senator Braun has called for increased investment in and rapid approval of COVID therapeutics since May of 2020.
“Operation Warp Speed was a incredible success, and considering that this virus will not be eradicated, we need to apply the same accelerated approval mindset to treatments and therapeutics for COVID-19 as we did for the vaccines.” -Â Senator
Domestic Battery Arrest
On October 7th, around 5:10 a.m., Evansville Police Officers were dispatched to the 800 block of Hess Ave in reference to a person with a gun. The victim stated that the suspect, later identified as 30-year-old Chase Melton, had a gun and was threatening to kill her and also physically assaulted her. The victim had visible, but non-life-threatening, injuries.
Melton initially refused to come out of the residence, but officers were eventually able to talk Melton into coming outside. At around 6:00 a.m., Melton was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center for the following charges:
Pointing Firearm/Weapon Domestic Battery Strangulation Communication/Intimidation
IC CODE: 35-47-4-3 IC CODE: 35-42-2-1.3
IC CODE: 35-42-2-9 IC CODE: 35-45-2-1
OMVWI Accident
On October 7th, around 2:40 a.m., Evansville Police Officers were dispatched to the area of Saratoga Dr. and Saddlebrooke Ln. in reference to a vehicle that ran into a house. The vehicle ran into the attached garage area of the house. Luckily, neither the resident inside the home nor the driver were injured. The driver was identified as 25-year-old Brennan Carr and told officers that he fell asleep while driving. Officers determined that Carr was impaired. Carr was arrested without incident and booked into the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center. Carr was arrested on the following charges:
*Operating a vehicle while intoxicated-prior
*Operating a vehicle while intoxicated-endangerment *Controlled Substance- Possession Schedule I, II, III, IV, V
IC CODE: 9-30-5-3(a)(1) IC CODE: 9-30-5-2(b) IC CODE: 35-48-4-7
Indiana Swimming and Diving Opens Season with Three Wins
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana swimming got its 2021-22 season off to a winning start Wednesday (Oct. 6), defeating Kentucky and Indiana State at Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center.
 TEAM SCORES
Men
Indiana 171, Kentucky 115
Women
Indiana 162, Kentucky 138
Indiana 253, Indiana State 47
HOOSIER WINNERS
MEN
Luke Barr – 100 Breaststroke (55.48), 200 IM (1:48.59)
Bruno Blaskovic – 50 Freestyle (20.10)
Brendan Burns – 200 Medley Relay (1:26.69), 100 Butterfly (47.90)
Mikey Calvillo – 1000 Freestyle (9:12.38), 500 Freestyle (4:27.39)
Gabriel Fantoni – 200 Medley Relay (1:26.69), 100 Backstroke (46.43)
Tomer Frankel – 400 Freestyle Relay (2:56.44)
Jack Franzman – 200 Medley Relay (1:26.69), 400 Freestyle Relay (2:56.44)
Corey Gambardella – 200 Butterfly (1:46.14)
Josh Matheny – 200 Breaststroke (2.00:69)
Van Mathias – 200 Medley Relay (1:26.69), 400 Freestyle Relay (2:56.44)
Rafael Miroslaw – 200 Freestyle (1:377.15), 100 Freestyle (44.42), 400 Freestyle Relay (2:56.44)
Jacob Steele – 200 Backstroke (1:45.70)
WOMEN
Elizabeth Broshears – 100 Butterfly (54.73), 400 Freestyle Relay (3:21.59)
Mariah Denigan – 1000 Freestyle (9:55.13)
Anne Fowler – 3-Meter Dive (346.90)
Tarrin Gilliland – 1-Meter Dive (306.20)
Mackenzie Looze – 200 IM (2:00.15)
Anna Peplowski – 200 Freestyle (1:48.21), 400 Freestyle Relay (3:21.59)
Noelle Peplowski – 100 Breaststroke (1:01.33)
Ella Ristic – 500 Freestyle (4:53.86), 400 Freestyle Relay (3:21.59)
Ashley Turak – 400 Freestyle Relay (3:21.59)
NOTABLES
- The men have won 10 straight matchups against Kentucky, with their last defeat coming in 2009.
- Indiana divers won three of four events, as Andrew Capobianco (1M -361.40), Tarrin Gilliland (1M – 306.20) and Anne Fowler all earned victories on opening day.
- Five IU freshmen earned wins, including three men’s swimmers (Luke Barr, Josh Matheny and Rafael Miroslaw) and two women’s swimmers (Mariah Denigan and Anna Peplowski).
- The men’s team won every swimming event, and had each of the top three finishers in ten of those events.
- Ten IU swimmers won multiple events, and freshman Rafael Miroslaw led the pack with three victories in his first-career event.
 NCAA CUTS
A: None.
B: Gabriel Fantoni (100 Back – 46.43), Corey Gambardella (200 Fly – 1:46.69), Noelle Peplowski (100 Breast – 1:01.33)
NCAA ZONE QUALIFYING SCORES
1-Meter: Andrew Capobianco (361.40); Quentin Henninger (345.00); Tarrin Gilliland (306.20), Anne Fowler (268.20)
3-Meter: Andrew Capobianco (378.95); Cole VanDevender (340.85); Quentin Henninger (331.60); Anne Fowler (353.00); Tarrin Gilliland (346.90); Taylor Carter (285.55)
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