University of Southern Indiana men’s golf finished off its fall schedule in memorable fashion with a tournament victory and four school records.
The Screaming Eagles went 12-under at the two-day outing with a total of 564, setting a 36-hole record following their record-setting first round. Day one of the tournament found USI with a new 18-hole record with a team score of 280 (-8). USI’s performance on par-5s proved to be the greatest difference with an average score of 4.65 (-14) during the outing while also leading the tournament in total birdies with 33. USI’s 4-under total from day two pushed them to the tournament win over Hillsdale (570, -6) and host Trevecca Nazarene (571, -5).
Senior Zach Breault secured his name in the USI record books in multiple regards during his tournament victory. Breault followed up his record first round of 67 (-5) with an even-par second round, which gave him the 36-hole record with a card total of 139 (-5). The previous record was held by two Screaming Eagles at 141. He finished highly in multiple categories including tied for second in par-4 scoring (3.85), tied for second in total birdies with nine and tied for third in par-3 scoring at 2.88. This was Breault’s first tournament victory and career-low round (67) as a Screaming Eagle.
The Screaming Eagles claimed two more top-10 finishers with junior Zach Williams and freshman Jace Day both tying for seventh at 2-under (142). Williams carded a 71-71 tournament while Day went 70-72 over 36-holes. Williams carded season-low rounds and his eighth career top-10 round with his finish at General’s Retreat (Hermitage GC). He also was a leader in par-5 coring for the tournament at 4.50 (3rd) and total birdies (8, t-4th) This was Day’s first top-10 finish and low-round (70) of his young USI career. Day led the field in par-5 scoring at 4.25 while he also carded USI’s lone eagle of the two-day tournament.
Matthew Kingston finished the outing tied for 14th with an even-par (72-72, 144) 36 holes. Kingston led the tournament with 31 pars. Not far behind his teammates was Peyton Short, who carded a 3-over total of 147 (t-25th).
The Screaming Eagles will look to build upon this performance into their spring championship season.
Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office today.
Corey D. Massey: Intimidation (Level 5 Felony)
Marcus Tchanavian Hall: Carrying a handgun without a license (Level 5 Felony), Driving while suspended (A infraction)
Eric Scott Alexander: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony)
Larry Eddie Wilson: Operating a motor vehicle after forfeiture of license for life (Level 5 Felony), Operating a motor vehicle without financial responsibility (A infraction)
Zakareya I. Shalabi: Domestic battery resulting in bodily injury to a pregnant woman (Level 5 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)
James Richard Connelly Jr.: Failure to register as a sex or violent offender (Level 5 Felony)
Russell Elliott Mooney: Dealing in a schedule I controlled substance (Level 2 Felony), Possession of a narcotic drug (Level 6 Felony), Resisting law enforcement
Amber Rose Canmore: Attempt auto theft (Level 6 Felony)
Tammy Alana Lacer: Theft (Level 6 Felony)
Andrew Steven Houchin: Carrying a handgun without a license (Level 5 Felony), No operator’s license in possession (C infraction), Disregarding stop sign (C infraction)
The Indiana Department of Health today announced that 2,062 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at state and private laboratories. To date, a total of 166,564 Indiana residents are known to have had the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s dashboard.
A total of 3,958 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 51 from the previous day. Another 236 probable deaths have been reported based on clinical diagnoses in patients for whom no positive test is on record. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by the state and occurred over multiple days.
To date, 1,646,542 unique individuals have been tested in Indiana, up from 1,638,232 on Monday. A total of 2,754,311 tests, including repeat tests for unique individuals, have been reported to the state Department of Health since Feb. 26.
The state Department of Health will offer free drive-thru testing sites from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today through Saturday at the following locations:
Crown Point
Lake County Health Department
2900 W. 93rd Ave.
Martinsville
Morgan County Fairgrounds
1749 Hospital Dr.
Wabash
Wabash Testing Clinic
1360 Manchester Ave.
West Lafayette
White Horse Christian Center
1780 Cumberland Ave.
To find other testing sites around the state, visit www.coronavirus.in.gov and click on the COVID-19 testing information link.
You can not wear any items of clothing into the polls that support or oppose any candidate. This includes MAGA face masks, hats or anything else with Trump, MAGA, etc. We will be very busy that day and the more informed our voters are, it will be a big help. Thanks!
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This week, starting 10/26, the party will be doing nightly weekday phone banks. The state party is also coordinating daily door knocking with local candidates and is in need of volunteers to help with those efforts.
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If you are interested in helping out, please email Matt Server at mserver@indiana.gop or call him at 812-463-2358. Let’s help elect Republicans from Donald Trump down the ballot!
Fellow Hoosier,
I want to share with you the following video produced by the House GOP Doctors Caucus that debunks myths about Operation Warp Speed and the development of a vaccine for COVID-19 with science-based facts:
On the morning of October 27 around 1:00 a.m., the Evansville Police Department was called to the hospital for a report of a male who had been shot in the shoulder.Â
 When officers arrived they spoke with the victim and a witness. They claim they were walking in the area of Mary and Oregon Streets (both were unsure on exact location) when a black passenger car pulled up to them and started shooting. One of the rounds struck the victim in the shoulder.Â
 After being struck, the victim and the witness arrived at the hospital for treatment. Neither the victim nor the witness knew who shot at them or who owned the vehicle.Â
 The victim did not wish to assist in the investigation any further and declined to pursue charges against the suspect. The victim’s wounds are non life-threatening.
Nearly two years ago, after Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Senate Democrats launched a character assassination of then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Hoosiers sent me to Washington to confirm judges that uphold the Constitution, as the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U. S. Supreme Court has just accomplished.
While Justice Barrett will be a positive role model to young girls across the country, she is also the only sitting justice who did not receive her law degree from Harvard or Yale and a motivational figure for everyone in middle America.
Speaking of middle America, which liberals just think of as flyover country, Justice Barrett understands our values of faith, family, community and respect for the law and will be a strong advocate for religious liberty, which is one of the pillars of our great country.
Throughout her nearly one hundred written opinions on the appellate court, I can promise you that Justice Barrett has proven that she is a strong Constitutionalist who will not cut the American people out of their own government by treating the Supreme Court as a third policymaking chamber of Congress.
This is especially important to those who believe in the First Amendment, which includes the right to religious liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble and to petition the government.
I have full confidence Justice Barrett will protect these freedoms as the Founders intended.
Additionally, law-abiding gun owners like myself can be confident that the new Supreme Court Justice will protect our Second Amendment right to bear arms, which is under threat from coastal elites like billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who are actively working on gun control legislation to strip Constitutional rights from law-abiding Americans.
On the bench, Amy Coney Barrett’s record of defending our Constitutional rights is beyond question, and that’s why I was proud to be the first U.S. Senator to endorse her.
Now with the presidential election just over one week away and liberals threatening to pack the Supreme Court, it’s clearer than ever that we need to reelect Donald Trump and send my colleagues back to the U.S. Senate – especially Joni Ernst in Iowa, Martha McSally in Arizona, and Thom Tillis in North Carolina.
We need to do this so that liberals can’t undo our work by winning the White House and having a Democratically-controlled Senate pack the Supreme Court with liberal, activist judges.
Governor Eric J. Holcomb offered the following statement regarding the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States.
“Judge Amy Coney Barrett is another in a long line of Hoosiers prepared to make our state proud at the federal level. I’m confident her experience and intellect will continue to guide her as she welcomes this new, awesome responsibility. I wish her all the best as she serves our nation on the Supreme Court of the United States.â€
INDIANAPOLIS—Hoosiers who encounter issues at their polling places that keep them casting a ballot on Election Day will not be able to petition the courts to extend voting hours, a three-member panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
The decision, issued late Friday, overturned an injunction issued in September saying it would cause irreparable harm as a last-minute change to Indiana’s election laws.
Attorney General Curtis Hill celebrated the decision upholding a 2019 Indiana law that says only the county’s election board can petition the courts to extend voting hours. Hill has been an advocate for upholding Indiana’s election laws in several cases involving voting in the general election.
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill. Photo by Andrew Longstreth TheStateHouseFile.com
“Fortunately, we are seeing federal appeals courts nationwide recognizing states’ legitimate authority to enact and enforce reasonable election laws,†Hill said in a press release. “Taken as a whole, election regulations must exist for elections to be fair, meaningful, and legitimate.â€
Common Cause Indiana fought to obtain the preliminary injunction, and Director Julia Vaughn said the group is disappointed that the appellate court overturned U.S. District Judge Richard Young’s decision.
“We felt that Judge Young’s ruling was an important reinstatement of citizens’ rights to go to court to preserve their voting rights when they are threatened by long lines, equipment malfunctions, you know any of the problems that can happen on Election Day,†Vaughn said.
Another issue that Common Cause Indiana has been trying to address is the contradictory information being shared with poll workers and voters over what to do if a voter has requested an absentee ballot but decides to vote in-person.
In a letter to the Indiana Election Commission, Vaughn explained that state election code says that a voter who has not returned their absentee ballot may vote in person. However, the Election Division’s communication with election officials and communications with voters in Delaware County contradict the state law, Vaughn said.
She said she has received reports from voters in Lake and Monroe counties who had shown up to vote in person after requesting an absentee ballot were turned away.
Julia Vaughn with Common Cause Indiana in 2017. Photo by Andi TenBarge, TheStatehouseFile.com
“We think the statute is clear†Vaughn said. “It allows people to change their mind and simply tell the poll place workers at early voting that they’ve changed their mind, that they want to vote early.â€
The Indiana secretary of state’s office said that Hoosiers cannot use the excuse that they have changed their mind to vote early in-person.
“State law does not allow a voter who received an absentee-by-mail ballot to vote absentee in-person because they changed their mind,†said Valerie Warycha, communications director for Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson. “The absentee ballot must be lost, spoiled or defective and the ABS-5 form executed before an absentee ballot can be reissued.â€
However, on Election Day voters may surrender their absentee ballot and vote in person, Warycha said.
Lines at the polls are appearing to be an issue as well, especially in Marion County. The wait times skyrocketed over the weekend. At St. Luke’s United Methodist Church on West 86th Street, the wait was as long as eight hours, according to Indy Vote Times.
Vaughn said that Common Cause Indiana worked with a number of different organizations, including Vote Safe Indiana, to create Indy Vote Times as a tool for busy voters in Marion County.
“I think the problem is that we have had for a long time in Indiana had very low voter turnout, so that is what election administrators have grown accustomed to planning for,†Vaughn said. “And this year we’re not seeing that, and so clearly they should’ve planned for a larger turnout, bigger crowds.â€
There are five satellite locations for early voting in Marion County, in addition to the clerk’s office at the City-County Building.
As of Monday, one million ballots have been received, according to the Secretary of State’s office. Nearly 563,000 have been by mail and 672,000 are early in-person voting. In the 2016 election, 2.8 million Hoosiers voted with 934,000 of those votes being absentee.
FOOTNOTE: Taylor Wooten is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
