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Otters overpower Grizzlies to move into tie for second wild card

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The Evansville Otters blasted three home runs to power their way to a 10-6 victory over the Gateway Grizzlies on Wednesday night at GCS Ballpark and moved into a tie with the Florence Freedom for the second wild card spot in the Frontier League.

Evansville broke through with two runs in the top of the third inning to take the lead. David Cronin hit a solo homer, his third of the season, and was immediately followed by Ryan Long with another solo home run, his twelfth of the year.

Hunter Cullen smashed a two-run homer, his third on the year, to give the Otters a 4-0 lead in the top of the fifth.

Trae Santos hit a three-run homer to bring the Grizzlies to within a run in the bottom of the fifth.

J.J Gould plated the fifth run of the game for the Otters with a sacrifice fly in the top of the sixth.

The Otters then broke the game open with five runs in the top of the ninth. Jeff Gardner plated a run with a double and was followed by a two-run single from Carlos Castro. Gould capped off the frame with a two-run single to raise his RBI total to three on the game.

Gateway plated three runs in the bottom half of the frame, but ultimately the Otters prevailed 10-6.

Tyler Beardsley picks up the win for the Otters, his fifth on the year. Beardsley went six innings, allowing three runs on seven hits, two walks and six strikeouts.

Joe Hauser takes the loss for Gateway. Hauser went 5.2 innings, allowing five runs, four earned, on nine hits and one strikeout.

Garrett Harris is credited with the save, his first of the year for Evansville. Harris threw the final three innings, allowing three runs on four hits while striking out two.

The Otters will now go for the sweep of the series tomorrow at 6:35 p.m. at GCS Ballpark.

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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Marriage Licenses Issued

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Marriage Licenses Issued

“READERS FORUM” AUGUST 30, 2018

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Trump Rally Shines Spotlight On Evansville

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Trump Rally Shines Spotlight on Evansville

AUGUST 30TH, 2018 JEFF GOLDBERG EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

When President Donald Trump touches down in Evansville on Thursday it will be a big moment for the city. With the President’s every move watched closely, all eyes will be on Evansville.

Some folks are hopeful this will raise the profile for the City of Evansville. With many new and improving signature events, this Make America Great Again rally serves as the cherry on top.

Evansville Convention and Visitor Bureau executive director Joe Taylor already has a list of talking points to go over with the major players coming into town. He hopes to leverage this into more opportunities down the line.

Evansville could also see a political bump from the rally. Trump will be in town in part to stump for Republican Senate Candidate Mike Braun. With the folks in Washington likely to be watching, they may start to think about Evansville as a hub for politics.

 

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Indiana Chamber Won’t Endorse in U.S. Senate Race

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Indiana Chamber Won’t Endorse in U.S. Senate Race

AUGUST 30TH, 2018 Tyrone MORRIS INDIANA

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce is rebuffing an organization tradition. For the first time in 10 years, the organization will not endorse a Senate candidate.

Republican businessman Mike Braun is trying to up-seat incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly.

The midterm election will determine the balance of power in Washington. The Indiana Chamber’s Congressional Affairs Committee has always endorsed the Republican Senate candidate in the past: Dan Coats in 2010, Richard Mourdock in 2012 and Sen. Todd Young in 2016. In all three elections, there wasn’t an incumbent running.

However, this year, the Chamber chose not to endorse either candidate.

The Chamber says business leaders throughout the state interviewed both candidates and found issues with the public policy stances of both.

Indiana Black Legislative Caucus Continues Push For Hate Crimes Law

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Indiana Black Legislative Caucus Continues Push For Hate Crimes Law

August 28, 2018    

By State Rep. Cherrish Pryor
For TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS—The fight to pass legislation punishing those who commit hate crimes is not a new one in Indiana.

What has gained attention is the small, but growing number of Republican lawmakers in the Indiana General Assembly who find themselves drawn toward supporting hate crimes legislation, no doubt because of the constant stream of incidents committed by people who simply don’t like others because of the way they look or their faith or their gender or their sexual orientation.

For minority legislators in Indiana, however, this battle has been a lengthy one, led by members of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus, who have spoken loudly and eloquently on the need to pass a hate crimes law.

 

Painting symbols of hate at a synagogue in Carmel, Indiana, was merely the latest in a lengthy series of hateful acts that have stretched through the years.

Since 1999, there have been more than 30 attempts to pass legislation to deal with bias crimes or hate crimes in Indiana.

In that time, there has been no greater champion for correcting this injustice than state Rep. Gregory W. Porter, D-Indianapolis. For more than 15 years, his agenda has consistently included some type of proposal to punish hate crimes in our state. 

Indeed, it is because of Rep. Porter that we have a law on the books that requires law enforcement across our state to report information on crimes that have been caused by the color, creed, disability, national origin, race, religion or sexual orientation of the person affected by the crime.

That happened in 2000. Since that time, IBLC members have made numerous attempts to put teeth behind a hate crimes law. Those efforts have been made by stalwart champions like state Rep. Bill Crawford, D-Indianapolis, and state Sens. Cleo Washington, D-South Bend, and Glenn Howard, D-Indianapolis.

In recent times, Rep. Porter has been joined in his efforts by state Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis. These two gentlemen have engaged in the seemingly Sisyphean task of convincing a legislature controlled by Republicans that Indiana should not be one of five states without a hate crimes law on its books.

Yet these gentlemen have endured and slowly but surely, the sheer weight of common sense in the face of injustice has started to bring more lawmakers into their camp. Whereas once it would have seemed impossible for Republican lawmakers to put their name on hate crimes legislation, we are seeing fine-minded public servants like state Sen. Sue Glick, R-LaGrange, become champions of this cause.

And now, as we move toward the 2019 session of the Indiana General Assembly, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has announced his support for a hate crimes law.

Of course, this is a positive step forward, but it must be said that many roadblocks remain in the path of making this law become reality. In the past, the introduction of a hate crimes law has been greeted with great attention and declarations of support, only to lose steam as legislators begin to equivocate in the face of resistance. These folks begin to talk about hate crimes being covered under existing case law when the reality of the situation is that they would just as soon not deal with this issue.

But their intransigence will not succeed in the face of the persistence shown by leaders like Rep. Porter and Sen. Taylor.

A hate crimes law is coming. Count on it.

FOOTNOTE: State Rep. Cherrish Pryor is a Democrat from Indianapolis and serves as chair of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus.

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Curtis Hill Praises Court for Rejecting Argument That ‘Right to Try’ Negates Laws Against Marijuana Use

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First Church of Cannabis is foiled again

Attorney General Curtis Hill today praised a Marion Circuit Court decision rejecting an argument by the First Church of Cannabis (FCOC) that their case should be reopened in light of the Right to Try Act – legislation approved this year that allows terminally ill patients to try investigational treatments.

The court already had rejected the FCOC’s attempts to gain exemption from anti-marijuana statutes on the basis of religious freedom. This month, the small group of marijuana enthusiasts filed a Motion to Correct Error with the court seeking to keep alive their efforts to freely smoke pot.

The plaintiffs began calling themselves a church in 2015 in order to mock Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which they opposed, and to argue for the right to use marijuana as a matter of religious liberty. On this basis, the group filed a lawsuit against state and local officials seeking relief from Indiana’s anti-marijuana statutes.

In July, the Marion Superior Court concluded that the “church” and its members cannot use “marijuana as a holy sacrament” or sell marijuana in their gift shop. This month – in response to the FCOC’s efforts to somehow use the Right to Try Act to its advantage – the court held its ground.

“Under the Right to Try Act, an ‘eligible patient’ means an individual that has exhausted all approved treatment options and is unable to participate in clinical trials and has been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease or condition,” the court stated. “Indiana’s compelling interest in preventing more general use in the name of public health and safety exists even if the Right to Try Act may permit certain eligible residents of Indiana to use marijuana for narrow and limited medical purposes under the direction and supervision of a physician.”

Attorney General Hill said it’s high time the FCOC stop wasting the court’s time.

“The First Church of Cannabis is determined to twist legitimate legal protections into licenses to violate laws against the possession, sale and use of marijuana,” Attorney General Hill said. “These statutes are designed to protect the health, safety and well-being of Hoosiers statewide, and I appreciate the court’s steadfastness in defending their validity.”

Sweeney Set To Join Busy Southern Indiana District Court

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Sweeney Confirmed To Southern District Bench

August 29, 2018
Marilyn Odendahl

With the confirmation of James Sweeney II to the federal bench, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana will be getting a much-needed judge to fill a longstanding vacancy and help handle one of the heaviest dockets in the country.

Sweeney, who was nominated to the Southern Indiana District Court by President Donald Trump, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate Tuesday. His confirmation will be sent to the White House where Trump will sign Sweeney’s commission, officially allowing him to assume the judicial office.

Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson is hopeful Sweeney will be able to start about mid-September. Although Sweeney has practiced in federal court, Magnus-Stinson said he will have to adjust from being an advocate to determining the appropriate decision under the law. He will also have to keep cases moving because the district has a high caseload per judge.

The Southern Indiana District has been designated a judicial emergency with the weighted filings reaching 821 per judge, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Currently, the court has five judgeships but is operating with three full-time judges and two senior judges.

Sweeney, who will fill the vacancy created when Judge Sarah Evans Barker took senior status in June 2014, will bring the court to four full-time judges. The other vacancy, created when Judge William Lawrence took senior status this summer, could be filled by James Hanlon, a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels. His nomination has been approved by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and is awaiting a vote by the full Senate.

A partner at Barnes & Thornburg, Sweeney is co-chair of the firm’s federal contracting, procurement and national security practice group. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Notre Dame Law School and clerked for now-retired Judge John Tinder at the Southern Indiana District Court and now-retired Judge James Ryan of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

For Sweeney, Magnus-Stinson offered the following advice: “Carefully listen to both sides, hire smart law clerks who can keep you up to the minute on the state of the law and enjoy it. It is a job of great variety, intellectual satisfaction, and challenges.”

The U.S. Track And Field Cross Country Coaches Association Released Its Preseason Regional And National Polls

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NEW ORLEANS, La. – where University of Southern Indiana Women’s Cross Country is tabbed third in the Midwest Region and 12th in the national poll.

Head Coach Mike Hillyard enters his 22nd season at the helm of the Screaming Eagles, leading the men’s team to 13 consecutive Great Lakes Valley Conference titles and 14 of the last 15 titles. The women’s team has compiled nine of the last 10 GLVC championships, including the previous seven.

The women’s squad returns 2017 NCAA Championship qualifier in senior Hope Jones (Cumberland, Indiana) after graduating five of the top seven runners in last year’s NCAA Midwest Regional team. Sophomore Jennifer Comastri (Indianapolis, Indiana) and junior Ellie Tjelmeland (Springfield, Illinois) hope to fill key spots in the 2018 campaign.

This year’s freshman class will feature many decorated distance athletes starting with Haley Barker(Boonville, Indiana), who is coming off three appearances at the IHSAA Cross Country Championships and two appearances at the IHSAA Track & Field Championships in her career at Boonville High School.

COACH HILLYARD QUOTABLE
“I never put much stock in national rankings, but it is a nice show of respect for our programs to start the season with both programs ranked in the top 12. National rankings don’t give you a bye and come with no guarantees. We will continue to prepare to the best of our abilities between now and December to make sure that we are ready when it matters.”

TAKE NOTE:

  • USI has been ranked a total of 59 times in the USTFCCCA poll, reaching as high as second
  • USI is the lone GLVC member ranked in the top 10 of the Midwest Region
  • USI started the 2017 regular season ranked 2nd, their highest ranking in the region before finishing 5th in the final poll
  • The women’s squad comes off a first-place GLVC Championship last year with 36 total points, 2 points ahead of second-place Bellarmine University
  • The Eagles also were the top GLVC finisher in the 2017 Midwest Regional last year with a fifth-place finish

FALL SLATE:
USI opens the season September 14 at Angel Mounds when it hosts the annual Stegemoller Classic. The Eagles are on the road for two consecutive meets–September 19 for the Greater Louisville Classic at EP “Tom” Sawyer State Park and October 6 for the Conference Crossover in Romeoville, Illinois–before hosting the Festival Year Fiasco October 20 at Angel Mounds.

The Eagles travel back to Louisville for the GLVC Championships November 3, before traveling to Hillsdale, Michigan, for the NCAA II Midwest Regional. The NCAA II National Championships are December 1 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and be part of the Division II Fall Festival.

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