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The Evansville Police Department Issues Warning to Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over

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The Evansville Police Department is joining about 230 law-enforcement agencies across Indiana and thousands nationwide in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over mobilization. From mid-August through Labor Day, police will be out in full force arresting impaired drivers. Expect to see increased sobriety checkpoints, roving patrols and saturation patrols.

A driving while intoxicated (DWI) arrest means going to jail and losing your driver’s license. The average DWI cost? About $10,000, including car towing and repairs, attorney fees, fines, court costs, lost time at work and other hefty expenses.

Indiana law-enforcement agencies have participated in annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over traffic enforcement for more than 20 years. Overtime patrols are supported with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) funds distributed by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI). For more information, visit http://on.IN.gov/drivesober. 

New impaired-driving equipment

In every state, it is illegal to drive with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher. In Indiana, drivers under 21 with a BAC of .02 or higher are subject to fines and a license suspension for up to 1 year.

NHTSA and ICJI recently purchased more than 2,600 portable breath tests to assist 150 Indiana law-enforcement agencies with establishing probable cause in arresting drunk drivers.

But DWI includes more than alcohol, and there is no quick field test for the many prescription, over-the-counter and illegal drugs that can impair drivers. This year, the police officers highly trained to recognize and enforce drug-impaired driving were issued Android tablets to simplify documentation for prosecution.

Tips for a safe and fun season

The annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement campaign includes the Labor Day weekend, with thousands upon thousands of Hoosier families taking to their cars for end-of-summer barbecues, football games, lakes and pool parties. Sadly, it is also one of the deadliest times of year for impaired-driving deaths.

With all of today’s options for getting home safely, there’s no excuse for getting behind the wheel impaired as it endangers you and everyone else around you. Law enforcement recommends these safe alternatives to impaired driving:

  • Designate, or be, a sober driver.
  • Use public transportation.
  • Call a cab or a ridesharing service.
  • Download the SaferRide mobile app on the Android Play Store or the Apple iTunes Store. This app only has three options: call a taxi, call a friend, and identify your location for pickup.
  • Celebrate at home or a place where you can stay until sober.
  • Throwing a party? Offer non-alcoholic beverages and plenty of food.
  • Never provide alcohol to minors.
  • Ask young drivers about their plans.
  • Friend or family member about to drive? Take the keys and make alternate arrangements.

Ride Sober or Get Pulled Over

Motorcycle riders have the reputation for being tough, but no one is tough enough to withstand the effects of impaired riding. Motorcycles are about 3 percent of registered vehicles, but are dramatically overrepresented in fatal crashes involving alcohol. And the more that bikers drink, the less likely they are to wear their helmets.

Report impaired drivers

Impaired driving is three times more common at night than during the day. If you see an impaired driver, turn off the road away from the vehicle and call 911. Signs of impaired driving include:

  • Weaving, swerving, drifting, or straddling the center line
  • Driving at a very slow speed
  • Braking erratically
  • Making wide turns
  • Stopping without cause
  • Responding slowly to traffic signals
  • Driving after dark with headlights off
  • Almost striking an object or vehicle
  • Driving on the wrong side of the road
  • Turning abruptly or illegally

Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation Meeting

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The Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will meet in executive session at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, April 22, 2019, in the John H. Schroeder Conference Centre at the EVSC Administration Building, 951 Walnut, IN 47713, Evansville, IN. The session will be conducted according to Senate Enrolled Act 313, Section 1, I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1, as amended. The purpose of the meeting is for discussion of collective bargaining, (2)(A); initiation of litigation or litigation that is either pending or has been threatened specifically in writing, (2)(B); purchase or lease of property, (2)(D); and job performance evaluation of individual employees, (9).

The regular meeting of the School Board will follow at 5:30 p.m. in the EVSC Board Room, same address.

New IU Maurer Professorship Honors First Black, Female U.S. State Justice

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The Indiana University Maurer School of Law has announced the creation of a trailblazing endowed professorship – the first in Indiana University history to honor an African-American woman, and the law school’s first named after a woman of color.

Endowed by $1 million in pledges and gifts from faculty members, alumni and law school friends, the professorship honors Juanita Kidd Stout, IU Maurer alumni and the first African-American woman to serve on a United States state supreme court.

Lauren Robel, IU Bloomington provost and Val Nolan professor of law, contributed the endowment’s lead gift, with numerous IU law professors close behind.

Also contributing to the fund are law school dean Austin Parrish and Senior Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The total gift will count toward IU’s $3 billion bicentennial campaign.

Stout earned her JD degree in 1948 and a master of laws degree in 1954. She then opened her own practice in Pennsylvania, eventually working in the district attorney’s office. Stout was later elected to the Philadelphia Municipal Court in 1959, making her the first African-American woman in the country to be elected to a court of record.

Stout continued to break barriers when in 1988 she became the first African-American woman to be appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court — the first African-American woman appointed as a state supreme court justice in the U.S.

She received an honorary degree from IU in 1966 and was inducted into the law school’s Academy of Law Alumni Fellows in 1986. Philadelphia named the Juanita Kidd Stout Criminal Justice Center in recognition of her accomplishments as a lawyer and public servant upon her death in 1998.

“Justice Kidd Stout has long been a personal hero of mine,” said Robel. “She lived a remarkable life of historic firsts marked by courage and compassion while shattering barriers to women and African-Americans in the legal profession.”

Parrish noted that to be named the Juanita Kidd Stout Professor of Law will be a tremendous honor for a faculty member. The selection will be announced later this year.

“Establishing this professorship is an important way to recognize one of our most prominent and distinguished graduates,” Parrish said. “I was pleased to join Provost Robel in making a gift to establish this professorship as an enduring tribute to Justice Stout’s legacy, and I am grateful for the other faculty and friends of the law school who joined me in contributing.

“I would like to extend a special thanks to one of our alums who has asked to remain anonymous but whose tremendous generosity made this professorship possible.”

The professorship is another achievement in diversity efforts for the law school, which maintained more female graduates than male graduates this year. It also elected alumna Annie Xie as the Indiana Law Journal’s first woman of color editor-in-chief in 2016 and has appointed Jose Moncada as first Latino editor-in-chief for the coming year.

“The greatest law schools have great minds — faculty who are simultaneously creative scholars and engaging teachers,” Parrish said. “Endowed professorships are a crucial tool for retaining our world-class faculty, for continually enriching our academic environment and, in turn, for attracting the most talented students.”

HOT JOBS IN EVANSVILLE

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Evansville Vanderburgh County Civic Center Turns 50

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March Indiana Employment Report

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March Indiana Employment Report

Private Sector Employment Continues to Reach

Preliminary Record Peak

 Indiana’s unemployment rate stands at 3.6 percent for March and remains lower than the national rate of 3.8 percent. With the exception of one month when it was equal (October 2014), Indiana’s unemployment rate now has been below the U.S. rate for more than five years. The monthly unemployment rate is a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicator that reflects the number of unemployed people seeking employment within the prior four weeks as a percentage of the labor force.

Indiana’s labor force had a net increase of 6,769 over the previous month. This was a result of an increase of 2,634 unemployed residents and an increase of 4,135 employed residents. Indiana’s total labor force, which includes both Hoosiers employed and those seeking employment, stands at 3.41 million, and the state’s 65.3 percent labor force participation rate remains above the national rate of 63.0 percent.

Learn more about how unemployment rates are calculated here: http://www.hoosierdata.in.gov/infographics/employment-status.asp.

March 2019 Employment Charts

Employment by Sector

Private sector employment has grown by 38,100 over the year and 5,300 over the previous month. The monthly increase is primarily due to gains in the Professional and Business Services (1,200), the Leisure and Hospitality (1,100) and the Financial Activities (1,000) sectors. Gains were partially offset by a loss in the Other (-300), which includes Mining and Logging, IT and Other Services, sector. Total private employment reached a preliminary record highpoint of 2,750,400, which is 18,300 above the December 2018 peak. The March 2019 peak, like all data within this report, is subject to monthly revisions and annual benchmarking.

Midwest Unemployment Rates

March 2019 Midwest Unemployment Rates

  

EDITOR’S NOTES:

Data are sourced from March Current Employment Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics – U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

March employment data for Indiana Counties, Cities and MSAs will be available Monday, April 22, 2019, at noon (Eastern) pending U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics validation.

“LEFT JAB AND RIGHT JAB” APRIL, 21, 2019

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“LEFT JAB AND RIGHT JAB”

“RIGHT Jab And Left Jab” was created because we have two (2) commenters that post on a daily basis either in our “IS IT TRUE” or “Readers Forum” columns concerning National or International issues.  Recently several of our commenters complained that the posts made by Joe Biden and Ronald Reagan are either too lengthy or off-topic.
Joe Biden and Ronald Reagan comments are mostly about issues of National interest.  Most of our IS IT TRUE columns are about local or state issues so we have decided to give Mr. Biden and Mr. Reagan exclusive access to our newly created “LEFT JAB and RIGHT JAB”  column. They will be given exclusively to discuss national or world issues that they feel passionate about.
If they decide to make any future posts on the “Readers Forum” or “IS IT TRUE” columns we expect them to stay on topic.
We shall be posting the “LEFT JAB” AND “RIGHT JAB” twice a week.  Oh, “Left Jab” is the liberal view and the “Right Jab is representative of the more conservative view. Also, any reader who would like to react to the written comments of the two gentlemen is free to do so.

USI TENNIS TEAM DROPS MATCH TO DRURY UNIVERSITY 

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USI TENNIS TEAM DROPS MATCH TO DRURY UNIVERSITY 

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The University of Southern Indiana men’s team dropped a 4-0 decision to the No. 1 seed Drury University in the first round of the GLVC Tournament Friday afternoon at the UIndy Tennis Center.

Due to weather, the men’s and women’s tournament were moved indoors across town at the UIndy Tennis Center and Butler University on Friday. The Eagles (11-13, 2-3 GLVC) were the No. 4 seed from the east division as it entered match day.

Overall, USI finished 69-68 in singles matches where sophomore Spencer Blandford (Louisville, Kentucky) compiled a 16-7 record with freshman Marvin Kromer (Dogern, Germany) and freshman Martin Linares (Buenos Aires, Argentina) followed suit with 14-8 and 14-7 singles records, respectively.

In doubles, USI’s sophomore duo of Blandford and Kooper Falkenstein (Jeffersonville, Indiana) posted a team-best doubles record of 13-7 on the season.

This season is capped off by an All-GLVC honor in senior Ilia Karelin (Ekaterinburg, Russia) who finished 11-14 in singles play and 10-14 in doubles matches. The USI team as a whole also received the 2019 James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award from the conference.

 

Home runs help Aces softball earn doubleheader sweep

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UE picks up two wins on Friday

Four players hit home runs on Friday to lead the University of Evansville softball team to a doubleheader sweep at Missouri State.  UE took a 3-1 win in game one before finishing with an 11-7 triumph in game two.

Game one featured a 2-run home run from Lindsay Renneisen while the second tilt saw Eryn Gould, Bailee Bostic and Halie Woolf hit long balls.  Woolf’s shot was a grand slam that saw the Aces (15-26, 6-12 MVC) earn the come-from-behind win.  Missouri State (26-16, 11-7 MVC) took a pair of late leads in the contest, but the Aces answered each time.Emily Lockhart pitched a gem while Lindsay Renneisen hit her seventh home run of the season to lead UE to a 3-1 win in the first game of the day.  With a scoreless game to start the top of the third, Toni Galas reached on an error before scoring on an RBI single from Eryn Gould.

With one out, Lindsay Renneisen hit a home run to left-center to push the Evansville lead to 3-0.  That was all the cushion that Lockhart would need in the circle as she gave up just four hits while striking out seven in another complete game effort.  UE tallied five hits with Katie McLean, Allison Daggett and Bailee Bostic joining Gould and Renneisen with one apiece.

Riding the momentum from their win to start the day, the Aces got off to another nice start in the second game.  Drawing a 3-2 count, Eryn Gould led the game off with a home run to left-center.  With one out, Renneisen singled to center before Daggett reached on a double.  That brought Halie Fain to the plate, who came through with a single that scored Renneisen.

Missouri State scored their first run in the bottom of the first before the Aces roared back with two more in the third.  With two on and two outs, Bailee Bostic singled to right to score Daggett and Mea Adams.  The scored remained 4-1 in favor of UE until the bottom of the fourth when the Bears scored five times to take a 6-4 lead.  The big hit was a 3-run pinch hit home run by Hope Hamilton.

The lead for MSU did not last long as the Aces came right back with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth.  McKenzie Johnson and Gould notched RBI hits to make it a 6-6 game.  After the Bears retook the lead at 7-6 with a single run in the fifth, the Aces made another comeback.  Bailee Bostic led the seventh frame off with a home run that knotted the score.  Jessica Fehr followed up with a single before a Gould walk and McLean single loaded up the bases for Woolf, who came through with the game-winning grand slam with two outs.

Evansville’s offense recorded season-highs with 16 hits and 11 runs in the game.  Woolf had four runs batted in while Bostic tallied three and Gould had two.  Seven UE players recorded two hits apiece while Gould and Fehr both scored twice.  Izzy Vetter made the start in game two, allowing six runs in 3 2/3 innings.  Ashleigh Downing tossed 2/3 of an inning while Lockhart picked up her second win of the day, throwing a scoreless 2 2/3 frames while allowing just a hit.

 

Aces Baseball Indiana State Preview

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The University of Evansville baseball team re-enters Missouri Valley Conference play with a super showdown against Indiana State this weekend at Charles H. Braun Stadium. Due to inclement weather, game one of the series has been moved to 5 p.m. Saturday, followed by a doubleheader Sunday, with a start time of 12 p.m.

New Schedule –
Game 1 – Saturday @ 5 p.m.
Game 2 – Sunday @ 12 p.m..

Game 3 – Sunday @ 3:45 pm (approx.)

SETTING THE SCENE: • The Aces (18-15) are coming off a tough week, which saw UE suffer it’s fi rst winless week of the season, concluding with a four game sweep at the hands of Indiana, capped by a tough 6-5 extra-inning loss at the hands of the Hoosiers last Sunday in Bloomington. However. Evansville bounced back in a big way,
out-slugging Murray State in a 16-12 non-conference road victory.

THE OPPOSITION: • Indiana State (27-8) had won five of its last seven games before falling to 6th ranked Vanderbilt in a 7-1 midweek road loss in Nashville Tuesday night. Still, the Sycamores have had impressive victories over Big Ten opponents Illinois, Purdue, Michigan State, Michigan, as well as a three game sweep of Rutgers. ISU
bounced back from a series loss to Missouri State in their Missouri Valley Conference opener to sweep Valparaiso this past weekend.

THE STARTING ROTATION: • The Aces will open the weekend with junior right-hander Adam Lukas (4-3, 4.74 ERA) taking the hill for UE. In his last start, the highly-touted ace pitched well, however a couple of mistakes and a lack run support led to a 5-0 loss to Indiana. Indiana State will counter with LHP Triston Polley (5-0, 1.78
ERA).

On Saturday, the Aces will send out junior left-hander Nathan Croner (5-3, 3.50 ERA) to face the Sycamores. Last time out,Croner pitched six strong innings against Indiana, allowing three runs on eight hits, but was a tough luck loser in a 5-1 setback. ISU will counter with RHP Collin Liberatore (6-0, 2.89 ERA).

On Sunday, the Aces will once again turn to senior right-hander Justin Hayden (1-1, 4.01 ERA) to make his second start in a row. Last weekend, Hayden recovered from a rocky start to toss two scoreless frames, in all giving up four runs on five hits, while striking out three. The Sycamores will counter with RHP Tyler Whitbread (5-1, 2.60 ERA).

ALL-TIME SERIES: • The Aces and Sycamore have faced each other 169 times over the years, with ISU holding a 105-64 edge in the series. The last time the two teams met, Indiana State took the series two games to one from Evansville in Terre Haute. The Sycamores took two of three from UE the last time this intra-
state series was played at Braun Stadium in 2017.

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