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Governor Eric J. Holcomb is directing flags statewide to be flown at half-staff on Sunday to honor the victims of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic.
Flags should be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Sunday, May 24.
Gov. Holcomb also asks businesses and residents across the state to lower their flags to half-staff on Sunday to commemorate the victims of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic.
“While social distancing, there are still many instances where we are working or otherwise enjoying the outdoors,†said EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation Anne Idsal. “EPA’s free UV Index app gives Americans the UV intensity forecast so we can take precautions to avoid UV overexposure and protect our health.â€
EPA, the National Weather Service, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention work together to make the UV Index forecast available in the United States. Check the UV Index on your phone’s weather app, or download a UV Index app like EPA’s UV index app (search for EPA’s UV Index in the iPhone App Store and on Google Play), a convenient tool to let you know the strength of the sun’s skin cancer-causing UV rays. EPA’s UV Index app gives daily and hourly UV intensity forecasts for your location, provides recommendations on sun safety, and is also available in Spanish.
Overexposure to UV is harmful and can lead to cataracts and skin cancer, the most common cancer in the Unites States. The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 100,350 new cases of melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, will occur in 2020. This is over 4,000 more estimated cases than in 2019.
Fortunately, it is easy to reduce your risks:
ORSANCO Weekly Water Quality Conditions for 22 May 2020
E.Coli: The Cincinnati area had extremely high colony counts of E.Coli this week, greatly exceeding water quality criteria. The Evansville area also experienced high bacterial counts, exceeding water quality criteria levels.
STAGES: Cincinnati and Evansville are at Action level conditions and will remain there over the next few days. Cincinnati is predicted to crest at nearly 49 ft over the weekend and Evansville is predicted to crest at nearly 39 ft over the weekend, with each remaining under Action level conditions. Other segments of the river are predicted to have elevated stages but within normal pool levels.
VELOCITIES: The Cincinnati area and Evansville areas are predicted to see some increase in velocity over the next few days.  All other sites are predicted to remain at nearly the same velocities over the next few days.
On May 21st, 2020 at 7:24p, Evansville Police Officers were dispatched to the 2700 block of S. Alvord Blvd in reference to a person with a gun call. The caller stated Christopher Courtney had pointed a gun at him and his family. The caller also stated Christopher physically forced a female into his Ford Mustang and was attempting to flee the area. Another witness also called in to Central Dispatch to report the incident.
Detective Sergeant Deyoung was in the area and located a black Ford Mustang matching William`s description.
Central Dispatch ran the plate and the vehicle was found to be reported stolen out of Webster County Kentucky. Sergeant Deyoung relayed the location of the Ford Mustang to responding E.P.D. Patrol units. Officer Hastings and Officer Turnock located the Ford Mustang and activated their police vehicle’s emergency lights in order to initiate a traffic stop. Officer Hastings relayed the Ford Mustang was attempting to flee the area. Hastings and Turnock pursued the Ford Mustang for less than two minutes before self-terminating the pursuit for the safety of the public. Central Dispatch soon began taking calls from citizens of a black Ford Mustang driving reckless near S. Green River Road.
Detective Beitler later located a black Ford Mustang parked on the right shoulder of the southbound lanes of I-69. He observed two individuals, one male and one female, walking away from the Ford Mustang. Beitler later observed both of the subjects walking through Evansville City property and private property in the 3500 block of Fickas Road. He then observed the male subject reach into the waist band of his shorts and drop an item near a detached garage. Â
EPD Patrol units arrived and placed the male subject in custody. The male subject were identified as Christopher Courtney. A .22 caliber revolver was found lying in the grass where Detective Beitler observed Courtney drop something. Detectives returned to the 2700 block of S. Alvord Blvd in order to speak with witnesses. It was ascertained that Courtney had physically assaulted his girlfriend and pointed the handgun at the reporter.
Courtney was charged with the below offenses and booked into the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center. Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked to call the Evansville Police Detective Office (812) 436-7979 or the tip line (812) 435-6194.
Officer Fahse was driving south bound on Fares Ave in a marked police vehicle, when a blue passenger car failed to yield the right of way coming out of a parking lot at Virginia and Fares. The vehicle stopped just short of hitting the driver’s side door of the police vehicle. She could smell the odor of marijuana coming from the open window of the vehicle. Fahse attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the blue passenger vehicle. The vehicle continued west bound on Virginia in an attempt to flee. The vehicle continued to increase its speed and ran a red light at Heidelbach and Virginia. Fahse terminated her pursuit of the vehicle because of safety concerns to the public.
Fahse was able to get the registration of the vehicle from the license plate. This led to an address in Warrick County. A Warrick County deputy sheriff went to the address the registration returned. The deputy was able to determine an address the car should be at in Evansville. Fahse and other officers then went to the 500 block of E. Parkland. While there they located the driver of the vehicle, Christopher Poodry. Poodry during the investigation gave officers a false name.
Poodry was arrested for the below offenses and booked into the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center. Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked to call the Evansville Police Detective Office (812) 436-7979 or the tip line (812) 435-6194.
  The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) today announced that 493 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 30,409 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.
 Intensive care unit and ventilator capacity remain steady. As of today, nearly 38 percent of ICU beds and more than 81 percent of ventilators were available as of Friday.
 A total of 1,791 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 27 over the previous day. Another 150 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 ISDH and occurred over multiple days.
                                                       To date, 208,561 tests have been reported to ISDH, up from 202,995 on Thursday.
                        Marion County had the most new cases, at 122. Other counties with more than 10 new cases were Allen (54), Delaware (10), Elkhart (61), Hamilton (12), Lake (42), Porter (33) and St. Joseph (16). A complete list of cases by county is posted at www.coronavirus.in.gov, which is updated daily at noon. Cases are listed by county of residence.
 Hoosiers who have symptoms of COVID-19 and those who have been exposed and need a test to return to work are encouraged to visit a state-sponsored testing site for free testing. Individuals without symptoms who are at high risk because they are over age 65, have diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure or another underlying condition, as well as those who are pregnant, live with a high-risk individual or are a member of a minority population that is at greater risk for severe illness, also are encouraged to get tested.
 ISDH is holding drive-thru testing clinics today through Saturday in Brazil, Hammond, Shelbyville and Wheatfield. For details about these clinics, or to find other testing locations around the state, visit www.coronavirus.in.gov and click on the COVID-19 testing information link.
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Gov. Eric J. Holcomb, the Indiana State Department of Health and other state leaders will host a virtual media briefing to provide updates on COVID-19 and its impact on Indiana.
WHO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Gov. Holcomb
State Health Commissioner Kristina Box, M.D., FACOG
Executive Director Indiana Department of Homeland Security Stephen Cox
Department of Workforce Development Commissioner Fred Payne
Indiana Economic Development Corporation Chief of Staff Luke Bosso
WHEN:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2:30 p.m. ET, Friday, May 22
Purdue University faces a second proposed class-action lawsuit filed by a student who says he and others are owed refunds for tuition and fees paid for in-person classes and activities that transitioned to remote education when campuses closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elijah Seslar filed a complaint against Purdue on Wednesday in Tippecanoe Circuit Court. Seslar is a full-time student studying finance at the university’s Fort Wayne campus.
His suit seeks a class of Purdue students who allege they are owed refunds for tuition and various fees paid for the spring 2020 semester at Purdue’s West Lafayette campus, campuses in Fort Wayne, Hammond and Westville, or at its polytechnic institute campuses in Anderson, Columbus, Indianapolis, Kokomo, Lafayette, New Albany, Richmond, South Bend, and Vincennes.
The suit is Elijah Seslar, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. The Trustees of Purdue University, 79-C01-2005-PL-59.
The case mirrors claims made in a suit the same attorneys filed last month against Indiana University in Monroe Circuit Court. In that case, IU Bloomington informatics student Justin Spiegel alleges he and other students who paid tuition and various fees for the spring 2020 semester were deprived of services, as well as the advantages of in-person interaction with fellow students, faculty, the institution, and the full university experience.
The suit filed Wednesday against Purdue states similar claims against the university, including breach of contract and unjust enrichment.
“These cases are about basic fairness,†Roy Willey, an attorney with the Charleston, South Carolina-based Anastopoulo Law Firm said of the suit the firm and Indianapolis attorney Jacob Cox filed on Seslar’s behalf. “Colleges and universities are not unlike any other business in America and they too have to tighten their belts during this unprecedented time. They are not any more entitled to keep the money for services they are not delivering than the mom and pop bakery on Main Street. Students and their families have pre-paid tuition and fees for services, access to facilities, and experiential education, and the universities and colleges are not delivering those services, access, or experiences. Now universities are not delivering those services that students and their families have paid for and it’s not fair for the universities with multi-million dollar endowments to keep all of the money that students and their families have paid.â€
Purdue spokesman Tim Doty did not immediately reply to a message seeking comment. He said last month after the first suit was filed against Purdue that the litigation had been expected but was without merit.
“It was sadly predictable that some plaintiff’s lawyer would attempt to profit from this unprecedented public health crisis that’s affected us all,†Doty said. “The suit is baseless and has no chance of ultimate success. In the meantime, it will be one more minor difficulty among all those we’re currently wrestling with.â€
The first suit against Purdue was filed by senior Zachary Church of Michigan, who alleged students were not offered adequate refunds for tuition, housing, meals, and more when they were asked in March to leave campus as COVID-19 began spreading across the country.
Church filed the lawsuit against the university and its board of trustees April 9 in the U.S. District Court for Northern Indiana. That suit before Judge Philip Simon, Church v. Purdue University, 4:20-cv-25, likewise seeks class-action status. The complaint is one of several that New York-based law firm Milberg Phillips Grossman LLP has filed on behalf of college students across the country who are now receiving a much different college experience than they expected.
Spokesman Chuck Carney last month issued a statement in response to the suit filed against IU. “In the midst of a global pandemic that has wreaked havoc on our entire way of life, Indiana University has acted responsibly to keep our students safe and progressing in their education,†he said.
