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Leonhardt nabs GLVC Pitcher of Week honors

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University of Southern Indiana junior pitcher Jennifer Leonhardt (Louisville, Kentucky) was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Pitcher of the Week for Softball in an announcement by the league office Monday afternoon.

Leonhardt was instrumental in leading USI Softball to a 4-0 record in GLVC play this weekend. She went 2-0 in the circle with a 0.00 ERA, a .152 opponent batting average and 16 strikeouts in two appearances and 13.0 innings of work.

Against McKendree University on Saturday, Leonhardt scattered five hits across seven innings, striking out 10 batters en route to the complete-game victory. She followed that effort by carrying a no-hitter into the sixth inning of USI’s 7-0 game-one win over the University of Illinois Springfield Sunday.

Leonhardt finished the doubleheader with six strikeouts, giving up just two hits, in six innings of work before giving way to freshman hurler Katie Back (Indianapolis, Indiana), who pitched a scoreless seventh to preserve the shutout.

The biology major helped herself at the plate in all four games as she hit .556 (5-9) with two doubles, four sacrifices, three runs scored and a team-high six RBIs.

Leonhardt has been on fire as of late, holding the opposition scoreless in her last five appearances, or 30 and a third innings of work. She has not issued a walk in the last 35 innings.

On the year, Leonhardt is 10-3 with a 1.66 ERA, a .187 opponent batting average and 95 strikeouts. She also is hitting .390 with four doubles, a triple and 14 RBIs.

Monday’s honor marks the fifth time in Leonhardt’s career that she has earned GLVC Pitcher of the Week honors and the first since gathering the accolade last April.

USI (16-10, 4-0 GLVC) returns to action Saturday at noon when it visits Maryville University for a GLVC doubleheader in St. Louis, Missouri. The Eagles also visit the University of Missouri-St. Louis for a GLVC twinbill Sunday at noon. Both doubleheaders will be aired live on the GLVC Sports Network.

Volunteer Now for the 2019 Division II Men’s Elite Eight

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NCAA tournament basketball is back in Evansville! The Division II Men’s Elite Eight returns to the Ford Center March 27-30. We need your help to showcase what a great host community Evansville is!
Volunteer positions include: team check in and credential distribution, in game promotions assistant, media support, and team escort and locker room attendant. All volunteers will receive an official 2019 Elite Eight volunteer shirt as well as food and beverage during their shift.
Below is a link that will take you to the online registration to sign up to volunteer. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail Chelsie Buckman at cbuckman@evansvillesports.org
Thank you for your support and we hope to see you soon!

Aces Lukas gives UE back-to-back MVC Pitchers of the Week

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For the second week in a row, the University of Evansville baseball team has the Missouri Valley Conference pitcher of the week on their staff. The league has given the honor to junior right-hand pitcher Adam Lukas, who replaces teammate junior left-hand pitcher Nathan Croner, who wore the crown last week.

Lukas turned in a dominating performance against Creighton in last Friday’s series opener at Charles H. Braun Stadium, striking out 12, while holding the potent Bluejay lineup to a single hit in the Aces’ 7-1 victory. Cronercertainly put himself in the running to retain the award, tossing seven shutout frames at Creighton, while striking out seven batters in an 11-0 victory over the Bluejays.

The University of Evansville baseball team is back in action Wednesday night at home against Eastern Illinois University. First pitch is set for 6 p.m.

This Week at USI

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USI alumni, media invited to tour Screaming Eagles Arena

The University of Southern Indiana Alumni Association will hold a reception for USI alumni in honor of Ronald S. Rochon, USI’s fourth president, from 6-8 p.m. Monday, April 1 in the new Screaming Eagles Arena, with brief remarks beginning at 6:30 p.m. Attendees will be able to meet Dr. and Mrs. Rochon and be among the first to tour the new arena.

This event will mark the first opportunity for media to tour and shoot footage of Screaming Eagles Arena prior to its official opening for a moderated conversation with Gen. Colin Powell, USA (Ret.) on Thursday, April 4 and the inauguration of Ronald S. Rochon as USI’s fourth president on Friday, April 5. Interested outlets are please asked to contact Ben Luttrull, Media Relations Specialist, at bluttrull@usi.edu or 812-461-5259 to confirm their attendance. Information about parking, entrances and media credentials will be distributed closer to the event.

 

Tuesday, March 19

Day of events planned for new Africana Studies minor

The University of Southern Indiana College of Liberal Arts will sponsor multiple activites throughout the day Tuesday, March 19 to recognize and distribute information about the new Africana Studies minor program. At 10 a.m., a head wrap workshop will be offered in Fireside Lounge, located in University Center East. This will be followed by a reggae concert and refreshments at 11 a.m. At 6 p.m., a screening of the Oscar-nominated film BlacKkKlansman, as well as a panel discussion following the screening, will be held in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. For more information, contact Dr. Sakina Hughes, associate professor of history, at shughes1@usi.edu.

7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20

Annual Shaw Biology Lecture to feature director of National Center for Science Education

Ann Reid, director at the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, will present the University of Southern Indiana’s eighth annual Marlene V. Shaw Biology Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in Mitchell Auditorium, located in the lower level of the Health Professions Center on USI’s campus. The presentation, titled “The Enduring Power of Evidence,” will be free and open to the public. Read More

7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20

Two award-winning writers to present in USI Griffin Center

The spring 2019 Southern Indiana Reading Series continues with readings and discussions with poets Meg Day and Marty McConnell on Wednesday, March 20. The readings will begin at 7 p.m. at the University of Southern Indiana Griffin Center, followed by a reception. This event is free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase and for signing. In addition to the reading event, McConnell and Day will also be running workshops that focus on poetry and performance with USI Communications, English and Gender Studies students. Read More

11 a.m. Friday, March 22

USI to host Town Hall Meeting with State Senator Vaneta Becker

The campus community is invited to a Town Hall Meeting with State Senator Vaneta Becker ’94 at 11 a.m. Friday, March 22, in Mitchell Auditorium. The event, titled “A Legislator’s-eye View of the State Budget Process” and featuring discussion and Q-and-A with State Senator Becker, is free and open to the public. More Information

7 p.m. Friday, March 22

First-ever faculty piano recital to take place in USI Performance Center

The University of Southern Indiana Performing Arts department is excited to announce a piano recital by Thomas Drury, instructor in music, will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, March 22 in the USI Performance Center. This event, the first faculty piano recital from the USI Performing Arts Department, is free and open to the public. Works from Frederic Chopin and Scott Joplin will be performed. Read More

A collection of events on campus and in the community sponsored by USI student organizations

can be found on the USI events calendar by clicking here.

6 p.m. Thursday, April 4

General Colin Powell to speak on leadership at USI in April

The University of Southern Indiana will present “Leadership: Taking Charge,” a moderated discussion with General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.) at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 4, 2019, at the new USI Arena. The discussion will be free and open to the public. General Powell will be the fourth speaker in the University’s Romain College of Business Innovative Speaker Series. Previous speakers include T. Boone Pickens, legendary entrepreneur and philanthropist in 2013, Dr. Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2015, and Dr. Oscar Salazar, founding chief technology officer of Uber in 2017. Read More

10:30 a.m. Friday, April 5

USI holding inauguration of fourth president, Ronald S. Rochon, April 5

The public is cordially invited to attend the inauguration of Ronald S. Rochon as the fourth president of the University of Southern Indiana at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 5 at the newly-opened Screaming Eagles Arena on USI’s campus (Guests should be seated by 10:15 a.m.). The ceremony, with a theme of “Building Community by Celebrating Diversity, Engagement, and Service,” will highlight the University’s impact on its students and alumni, as well as the local and global communities. As part of the ceremony, presidents and other delegates of colleges and universities from around the country will participate, along with USI students, faculty, alumni and other special guests. Additional guests include, but are not limited to the governor of the State of Indiana, military generals, USI trustees, mayor of Evansville, members of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, former USI presidents and other University representatives. Read More

Friday, April 12 – Sunday, April 14

Startup Weekend Evansville 8.0 to focus on community health care

With an eye toward using innovation to make our area healthier, Startup Weekend Evansville (SWE) 8.0 will be held from Friday, April 12 through Sunday, April 14 in the newly-remodeled third floor of the Health Professions Center on the University of Southern Indiana campus. Open regionally to students, faculty, staff and the community, Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. For this year’s event, SWE organizers have chosen to theme the event “Better Health Through Innovation,” and are asking participants to focus their ideas on ways to improve the health outcomes of Vanderburgh County and the surrounding area. Read More

 

VCSO Regional Jail Officers Course Graduates 16 New Officers

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The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office graduated sixteen (16) new confinement officers from the Indiana Law Enforcement Basic Jail Officers Course last Friday. Officers from Vanderburgh, Martin, Posey, Spencer, Harrison and Warrick counties completed the Basic Jail Officer’s Course.

In 2006 the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board approved the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office as a regional training site for this forty (40) hour course, which is required of all newly hired jail officers during their first year. The new officers were instructed in subjects such as: ethics, tactical communication, report writing, jail operations, physical security, searches, evidence gathering, booking and admissions, blood borne pathogens, cultural awareness, suicide prevention, mental illness and legal issues.

The regional officers will return to their respective agencies next week in order to continue additional facility specific training. Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office confinement officers will spend the next two weeks attending additional classroom and practical training, which will include topics such as: housing unit supervision, gang identification, defensive and physical tactics, record keeping and practical scenarios. Upon completion of the classroom training, the new confinement officers will be assigned to a Field Training Officer (FTO) for an additional ten (10) weeks before being permitted to work alone.

At any given time the Sheriff’s Office houses over 675 inmates within the confines of a 146,500 square foot facility. As an Indiana Law Enforcement Academy accredited provider, the Sheriff’s Office accepts applications from outside agencies to attend the Basic Jail Officers Course at our facility.

 

Pictured above: Jail Officers Course – Class 2019-156

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COA: Trial court not required to order interest on equalization payment

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Katie Stancombe for www.theindianalawyer.com

A woman arguing interest should accrue on marital asset payments from her former husband failed to sway an appellate panel, which concluded the trial court was not required to include interest when reducing an equalization payment to a judgment.

Itamar Cohen was initially granted more than $2 million of the marital estate in the form of income-producing commercial properties in the dissolution of his marriage to Dina Hasten Cohen. That left Dina with $225,630.21 – far less than the statutory presumption of an equal division of assets.

Thus, the Marion Superior Court ordered Itamar to pay Dina an equalization payment of $922,275, paid at a rate of $6,000 per month for six years. Dina would also receive a balloon payment of roughly $490,000 before that time ran out.

However, Dina noted a catch in the order: Itamar would not be required to pay interest on those payments unless he made an untimely payment. If he missed a payment deadline, interest would begin to accrue.

Dina argued that provision was a mistake, asserting that in failing to include a provision for interest, the trial court’s order failed to take into consideration the time value of money, the risk of non-payment and inflation. Future payments with those factors considered, she argued, would not equal the payments’ current value.

Dina further argued that if a trial court declined to award interest when payments are time-delayed, then it did not truly award an equal share. So, in using an 8 percent interest rate as the discount rate, the current value of the payments awarded to Dina would be less in six years.

Despite noting some mathematical appeal in Dina’s time-value-of-money argument, the Indiana Court of Appeals rejected her assertions in Dina Hasten Cohen v. Itamar Cohen, 18A-DR-2139. The appeals court said it was bound by the Indiana Supreme Court’s holding in Rovai v. Rovai, 912 N.E.2d 374 (Ind. 2009).

In that case, the high court determined “the statute on civil post-judgment interest does not compel interest to run on the various internal elements of dissolution decrees.” Instead, the court held that the dissolution statutes “confer upon trial courts the authority to order interest or not in the course of fashioning a just and reasonable division of property.”

The appellate panel found the present case was “on all fours with Rovai,” and that contrary to Dina’s claims, the trial court was not required as a matter of law to include an award of interest when it reduced the equalization payment to a judgment.

“Instead, the decision to award interest, or not, was wholly within the discretion of the trial court,” Judge Paul Mathias wrote for the panel, with Chief Judge Nancy Vaidik and Judge Terry Crone concurring. “To the extent that Wife argues that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to award interest under the particular facts of this case, we disagree.”

The panel further added that Dina’s failure to provide a transcript of the trial court hearings led to the its inability to review any evidence she presented in support of a discretionary award of interest, and that it found no abuse of discretion on the trial court’s end.

“Wife will still receive $6,000 per month, plus a very large balloon payment,” Mathias concluded. “She will be paid in full within six years, and if Husband is late on any of the payments, interest will then accrue. Such an arrangement was well within the equitable discretion of the trial court in dividing the martial estate.”

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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 Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office today.

Masber L. Latdrik: Operating a vehicle with an ACE of 0.08 or more (Level 6 Felony)

Chelsea B. Jordan: Possession of cocaine (Level 6 Felony), Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)

Demond Antonio Davis: Battery against a public safety official (Level 6 Felony), Battery by bodily waste (Level 6 Felony), Invasion of privacy (Class A misdemeanor)

Jayvontae Deshay Schwartz: Dealing in a narcotic drug (Level 4 Felony), Dealing in a schedule I controlled substance (Level 5 Felony), Possession of a narcotic drug (Level 5 Felony), Dealing in marijuana (Level 5 Felony), Possession of a controlled substance (Level 6 Felony), Neglect of a dependent (Level 6 Felony)

Shaundris Danae Cook: Neglect of a dependent (Level 6 Felony)

Kyro Jerai Haynes: Neglect of a dependent (Level 6 Felony)

Shaina Celeste Covington-Brown: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Invasion of privacy (Class A misdemeanor)

James Christopher McClernon: Failure to register as a sex or violent offender (Level 5 Felony)

Joshua David Venson: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony), Possession of marijuana (Class A misdemeanor), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)

Patti L. Schaefer: Possession of a narcotic drug (Level 6 Felony)

Christina Y. Cayce: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor), Operating a motor vehicle without ever receiving a license (Class C misdemeanor), Operating a motor vehicle without financial responsibility (A infraction)

James Edward Mathis II: Criminal recklessness (Level 6 Felony), Strangulation (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Class A misdemeanor), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor), Possession of paraphernalia (Class A misdemeanor)

McNamara honors Highland baseball champions

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State Rep. Wendy McNamara (R-Evansville) today welcomed the Highland Baseball Challenger Little League team to the Statehouse to recognize their Little League World Series win.

In 2018, baseball players from the Highland Baseball Club in Evansville traveled to Pennsylvania to compete against players from around the world. The Highland Baseball Club Little League team defeated the Hazelton Little League Challenger team to become the 2018 Little League Challenger Division World Series Champions.

“This league has done a remarkable job making sure all can participate in sports and play on a team,” McNamara said. “Providing this opportunity to local families at no cost is incredible, and I congratulate the team on their great season.

Founded in 1989, the Little League Challenger Division was established for those with physical and intellectual challenges to play baseball in a team environment. The Evansville branch, The Highland Baseball Club Little League, was established in 2014. Currently, there are more than 950 Challenger programs worldwide serving over 30,000 athletes.

“I have never been to a sporting event with more energy and excitement in the air than at a Highland baseball game,” McNamara said. “The supportive, enthusiastic environment created by the players, fans and coaches is truly something to experience.”

 

 

 

 

Obituary For Brenda Murl Grose

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BRENDA MURL (WHITE) GROSE

by KOEHLER FUNERAL HOME-BOONVILLE

Boonville, IN. – Brenda Murl (White) Grose, 62, of Boonville, Indiana passed away after an extended illness on Saturday, March 16, 2019, at her home.

Brenda was born in Evansville, Indiana on May 14, 1956, to the late Johnny and Wanda (Mart) White.

She is survived by her children, Gary Leach II of Boonville, IN; Dale Atchison of Santa Claus, IN; Teresa (Atchison) Shourds of Rockport, IN; siblings, Linda Smith (Bob) of Evansville, IN; Teresa White (Steve) of Evansville, IN; Chuck White (Tonya) of Richland, IN; several nieces and nephews.

A celebration of life will be held from 1 P.M. until 3 P.M. on Friday, March 22, 2019, at the Richland General Baptist Church in Richland, Indiana.

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Daily Scriptures for the Week

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MONDAY
“No, not at all. I am saying that these sacrifices are offered to demons, not toGod. And I don’t want you to participate with demons. You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’sTable and at the table of demons, too.”
‭1 Corinthians ‭10:20-21 ‭

TUESDAY
“If someone who isn’t a believer asks you home for dinner, accept the invitation ifyou want to. Eat whatever is offered to you without raising questions ofconscience. But suppose someone tells you, “This meat was offered to an idol.” Don’t eat it, out of consideration for the conscience of the one who told you.”
‭1 Corinthians ‭10:27-28 ‭

WEDNESDAY
“And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing23,000 of them to die in one day. Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some ofthem did and then died from snakebites.”
‭1 Corinthians ‭10:8-9 ‭

THURSDAY
“So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols.” 1 Corinthians ‭10:14‭

FRIDAY
“Think about the people of Israel. Weren’t they united by eating the sacrifices atthe altar?”
1 Corinthians ‭10:18‭

SATURDAY
“No, not at all. I am saying that these sacrifices are offered to demons, not toGod. And I don’t want you to participate with demons.”
‭1 Corinthians ‭10:20 ‭

SUNDAY
“I, too, try to please everyone in everything I do. I don’t just do what is best forme; I do what is best for others so that many may be saved. And you shouldimitate me, just as I imitate Christ.”
‭1 Corinthians ‭10:33-34 ‭

Submitted to the City-County Observer by Karen Seltzer

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