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Men’s Basketball Embarks On Road Trip To Bradley

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Aces And Braves Square Off on Saturday At 7 P.M.

A 2-game road trip awaits the University of Evansville men’s basketball team as the Purple Aces begin the stretch with a road game at Bradley on Saturday at 7 p.m.

A furious rally on Wednesday saw the Purple Aces cut a 13-point Indiana State lead to just two in the final minute before the Sycamores escaped with the 71-66 win.  Dru Smith fell just two points shy of his career mark, recording 23 points in the game on 7-of-12 shooting.

UE and Bradley tangled just two weeks ago inside the Ford Center as the Aces picked up their first MVC win of the season by a final of 68-44.  Ryan Taylor was the leading scorer in the contest with 21 points while Smith and Blake Simmons finished with 14 and 12, respectively.  Simmons enters Saturday’s game with 992 career points, just 8 shy of 1,000.

Another offensive outburst saw sophomore Dru Smith finish with 23 points on Wednesday versus the Sycamores, two off of his career mark.  Smith is on an absolute roll, posting 15.2 points per game in his six league games.  Smith notched five assists and a steal last time out and continues to lead the Valley in assists and steals.  Smith is 19th in the nation with 2.31 steals per game and is 67th in the NCAA with 5.0 assists.

Make it 13-for-13 for UE junior Ryan Taylor, who has scored at least 11 points in each of his 13 games played for the Aces this season.  Taylor chipped in 12 points against the Sycamores and retook the MVC scoring lead with his average of 20.4 points per game.  With 35.9 minutes per game, Taylor paces the league while his free throw efforts of 87.5% on the season are second.

Bradley is looking to right the ship as they have dropped three of their last four games, including a 68-44 game in Evansville, to drop to 13-7 and 3-4 in the MVC.  Darrell Brown continues to pace Bradley with 13.1 points per game.  Next up is Donte Thomas, who sits with 10.2 points and a team-high 6.7 rebounds; Thomas finished with 13 points and 13 rebounds on Wednesday in a 70-57 loss at Illinois State.  The Braves have been great at home this season, winning all nine games at Carver Arena.

 

Indiana State Police Investigating Police Action Shooting

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Friday morning at approximately 12:48, Warrick County Sheriff’s Department 911 Dispatch received a call regarding an individual with two knives that was threatening people at Governor Boon Square Apartments in Boonville. Two Boonville City Police officers arrived within two minutes and observed a male subject with two knives on the south side of the apartment complex.  The individual was told to drop the knives, but he refused and kept walking toward the officers. One officer discharged his Taser several times, but it was ineffective. The individual continued to approach the officers and refused to drop the knives. The second officer discharged his firearm striking the suspect.  Officers immediately contacted an ambulance and started to treat the individual for his injuries. He was transported to St. Vincent Hospital in Evansville where he died from his injuries.

Indiana State Police detectives and crime scene technicians are still on scene gathering information. Detectives are still attempting to positively identify the suspect.

Additional information will be released as it becomes available.

Investigating Agency: Indiana State Police

All criminal defendants are to be presumed innocent until, and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Updated Information – Indiana State Police Investigating Police Action Shooting

Warrick County – The suspect involved in this morning’s police action shooting has been identified as Marshall Coleman, 58, of Boonville.

According to state police detectives, the 911 call reporting a male with two knives threatening people at Governor Boon Square Apartments came from Coleman’s cell phone. Coleman resides in the complex and detectives believe Coleman made the 911 call to initiate a confrontation with police. When officers arrived they didn’t see anyone else outside other than Coleman and no other tenants reported being threatened or injured by Coleman.

The Boonville City Police Officers involved in the incident have been identified as Lt. Mark Hadley and Patrolman Trevor Winters. Both officers were placed on paid administrative leave until at least Monday.

The autopsy is taking place at this hour and additional information will be released as it becomes available.

Investigating Agency: Indiana State Police

Big first half gives Eagles GLVC win over Miners

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University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball used first-half runs of 17-0 and 9-0 to cruise to a 90-71 Great Lakes Valley Conference victory over visiting Missouri University of Science & Technology Thursday evening at the Physical Activities Center.

The No. 15/21 Screaming Eagles (14-2, 6-1 GLVC) trailed by as much as four points early in the contest and by one when they erupted for 17 consecutive points to take a commanding 27-11 lead with two minutes to play in the first quarter. They scored nine straight in the second quarter and led by as many as 24 points before taking a comfortable 50-29 lead into the intermission.

Ten different players contributed in the scoring column for the Eagles, who were led senior forward Morgan Dahlstrom (Grayslake, Illinois). Dahlstrom finished with 23 points and eight rebounds, including the first six points in USI’s 17-0 run.

Senior guard/forward Kaydie Grooms (Marshall, Illinois) finished with 16 points, while junior guard Alex Davidson (Salem, Indiana) chipped in 15 points, five rebounds and six steals. Junior forward Kacy Eschweiler (St. Charles, Missouri) added nine points and a career-high five assists, while junior forward/center Mikayla Rowan (Brazil, Indiana) added eight points, five rebounds, and three assists.

Senior guard Janie Arand led the Miners with 23 points, while sophomore forward Maddie Raley, a Haubstadt, Indiana, native, added 18 points and seven rebounds.

USI returns to action Saturday at 1 p.m. when it hosts Truman State University for the sixth annual Hoops for Troops Military Appreciation Day at the PAC. The Bulldogs (10-5, 5-3 GLVC) lost to the University of Indianapolis, 79-63, Thursday evening in Indianapolis.

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD REPORT

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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“READERS FORUM” JANUARY 19, 2018

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WHATS ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

We hope that today’s “Readers Forum” will provoke “…honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?”

Todays “Readers Poll” question is: Do you feel that U. S. Congressman Larry Bucshon has represented the needs of the people of the 8th District?

Please take time and read our articles entitled “STATEHOUSE Files, CHANNEL 44 NEWS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, READERS POLL, BIRTHDAYS, HOT JOBS” and “LOCAL SPORTS”.  You now are able to subscribe to get the CCO daily.

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EDITOR’S FOOTNOTE:  Any comments posted in this column do not represent the views or opinions of the City-County Observer or our advertisers.

 

Chief Judge Of The Vanderburgh County Superior Court Leslie C. Shively Selected As A CCO “Outstanding Community Services Award” Winners For 2018

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The City-County Observer is excited to announce our second (2) “Outstanding Community Services Award” winner for 2018.

The “Outstanding Community Services Award” winner for 2018 is the extremely popular and the very personable and the Honorable Chief Judge of the Vanderburgh Superior Court, Judge Leslie C. Shively

Judge Shively graduated from Indiana University, B.S./Accounting. He earned a Masters of Business Administration degree from Indiana University. He graduated with honors from the McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, with a Doctor of Jurisprudence.

For 32 years he represented numerous clients in civil litigation involving significant land use and property rights issues. He also represented governmental organizations, including the Vanderburgh County Election Board, the Town of Chandler and the Warrick County Plan Commission. From 2001–2011, he served as a member of the Indiana State Board of Law Examiners and was its President for two years. Judge Shively was appointed by the Indiana Supreme Court to act as a hearing officer in attorney disciplinary proceeding. He is currently the Chief judge of the Vanderburgh Superior Court.

The Boards And  Committees that Judge Les Shively has been involved in over the years are:

Board of Governors, Indiana State Bar Association (2014-2016)
Board of Managers, Indiana Judge’s Association (2014 – Present)
Board of Directors, Indiana Judicial Conference (2014 – Present)
Indiana University Board of Trustees – 1976-1977 (First Student Trustee)
Ivy Tech Community College (State Trustee) – 2009 – 2013
Indiana State Student Assistance Commission – 1986-1989
Indiana State Board of Law Examiners – 2001-2011; President 2009-2010
Vanderburgh County Election Board – 1991-1994
Evansville Bar Association, Secretary, 1982-1983; Board of Directors – 1982-1983
Indiana State Bar Association, Chair, Land Use Section, 2000-2004
Evansville Bar Association Board of Directors (1986) and (2013-2015)
Evansville Bar Association Foundation (2013-2017)

Publications That Judge Shively Has Authored are:
“Residential Transactions” for Lawson and Federoff’s Indiana Real Estate Transactions, 1995).

ICEF, Annual Real Estate Institute, November 6, 2003 (authored section on residential case law update).

ICLEF, Annual Estate Institute, November 1, 2006 (authored section on residential case law update)

ICLEF, Planning and Zoning, May 22, 2008, (authored “Establishing a Good Administrative Record in Your Zoning Case).

ICLEF, Planning, and Zoning, August 5, 2011; “Case Law Update” (authored section on residential case law update).

Some Of The Notable Awards That Judge Shively Received Were:
Elvis J. Stahr Distinguished Senior Award (1976)

EVSC Hall of Fame (2017)

Judge Shively Involvement In Area Boards And Organizations Are Nothing Less Than Impressive.  He served on the following boards and organizations.

Youth First: Governmental Affairs Committee – 2011-2012; Board of Directors 2012-present. This is an organization which works with the schools in Southwestern Indiana to provide counseling and direction for at-risk children.

Methodist Youth Home Board of Directors: 2002-2010. This is an entity which provides services and housing for young people in particular young women who are either the subject of CHINS petitions and/or of juvenile court proceedings.

Leadership Evansville Board of Directors: 1988-1989. This organization provides training and direction for future community leaders.

YMCA Board of Directors: 1988-1992; YMCA Dunigan Branch Board of Directors: 2002-2010

Vanderburgh County 4-H Center, Inc., Board of Directors: 1995-2003

He was also honored with the Martindale–Hubbell Highest Possible Rating in Both Legal Ability and Ethical Standards (2001) and was selected as a “Top Lawyer Indiana – Real Estate Law Indiana Monthly Magazine (2012)”

Judge Shively real claim to fame was from 1991-2009 he hosted a local current event/call-in radio show.  From 2000-2008, he co-hosted a weekly television show on PBS affiliate WNIN entitled “Shively & Shoulders” with fellow attorney and personal friend, Patrick Shoulders. On this show, they interviewed local and state public officials engaged in vigorous discussions on current issues and events.

When he has time he does some adjunct teaching at the University of Evansville and
Ivy Tech Community College.

In the next several weeks we shall be announcing other “Outstanding Community Services Award” winners for 2018. This year’s awards luncheon will be held at Tropicana-Evansville Walnut rooms A and B on March 22, 2018. The registration begins at 11:30 am, the event officially starts at 12 noon on March 22, 2018. Reservations for this event may be obtained by calling 812-774-8011. Deadline for registration is March 20, 2018. Last year’s event was a sellout.

Indiana Senate Panel Votes Against Expanded Cold Beer Sales

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Indiana will likely remain the only state that restricts who can sell cold beer after a Senate panel voted Wednesday to uphold a closely guarded law that protects the interests of liquor stores.

The measure, the first to ever receive a hearing in the Senate Public Policy Committee, was voted down 9-1, all but dooming the effort this legislative session. A House committee voted 12-1 earlier Wednesday to support lifting Indiana’s decades-old ban on Sunday carryout alcohol sales.

In Indiana, grocers, convenience stores, and pharmacies can sell cold wine and warm beer. But the sale of cold beer is primarily restricted to liquor stores, whose owners have donated generously to lawmakers’ campaign funds while battling fiercely to maintain the status quo.

“A vote to expand cold beer sales” is a vote to “put liquor stores out of business,” testified Jon Sinder, who is a co-owner of Crown Liquors, a chain of central Indiana liquor stores.

During Wednesday’s hearing, both sides portrayed the other as greedy.

It pitted convenience store owners, purporting to stand up for consumer interests and free markets, against liquor stores that portrayed themselves as mom-and-pop businesses that are the state’s trusted purveyor of alcohol.

Indiana’s past embrace of temperance movement was an undercurrent that ran throughout, with opponents warning a change in the cold beer law would lead to social ills fueled by a proliferation of street corner alcohol stores.

“Alcohol and gas do not mix. So let’s go ahead and use Hoosier common sense and be different from the other 49 states,” said Knightstown resident Sarah Ward, who is president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Indiana.

Jay Ricker, the owner of the Ricker’s chain of convenience stores, vowed to keep pushing the proposal this session, though he acknowledged it was an uphill fight.

“You know who gets left out?” asked Ricker. “It’s the consumers in Indiana. And everybody seems to ignore that.

Ricker said he offered a number of concessions to lawmakers and liquor store owners. He proposed raising the age of cashiers to 21, mandating alcohol training and increasing fees that convenience stores would pay to help cover additional enforcement.

But supporters of the measure, including Ricker, said Republican committee Chairman Ron Alting would not allow any of their proposals to be heard during the committee.

An Associated Press review last year found liquor store interests have spent at least $150,000 on lobbying in recent years while donating more than $750,000 to lawmakers since 2010. Alting topped the list.

The cold beer measure is one of two major alcohol proposals before the Legislature this session. Earlier in the day, the House Public Policy committee approved a bill that would repeal Indiana’s Prohibition-era ban on Sunday carryout alcohol sales. That measure appears to have much broader support.

The added sense of urgency lawmakers are approaching alcohol matters with this session was touched off by Ricker last year.

He found a legal loophole and started serving burritos at two stores, enabling him to obtain an alcohol license typically reserved for restaurants. That set him up to sell carryout cold beer — until lawmakers intervened.

They passed legislation last spring that Ricker said will make it virtually impossible to renew his licenses.

“I have to sell what my customers want,” he said, “And my customers want a cold beer.”

 

Judge Mary Beth Bonaventura To Join Staff Of AG Curtis Hill

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Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill announced today that Judge Mary Beth Bonaventura is joining his staff to serve in the position of Special Counsel.

Previously, Judge Bonaventura spent more than 30 years in judicial roles in Lake County. She worked as Magistrate in the Juvenile Court for more than a decade until 1993, when then-Governor Evan Bayh appointed her to serve as Senior Judge of the Lake County Superior Court, Juvenile Division.

In 2013, then-Governor Mike Pence appointed Judge Bonaventura to serve as Director of the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS), which works to ensure the financial support of children and, foremost, to protect children from abuse and neglect. Judge Bonaventura served in this role until December of 2017.

She joins the Office of the Attorney General effective Monday, January 22.

“I’m extremely pleased to bring aboard a leader of such caliber as Judge Bonaventura,” Attorney General Hill said. “Her breadth of experience and depth of knowledge will continue to prove indispensable assets to the citizens of Indiana as she steps into this next phase of her distinguished public service.”

Judge Bonaventura expressed eagerness to begin her new role.

“I am honored and excited to have the opportunity to work with AG Hill on continuing the fight against the opioid crisis and tackling the many challenges facing Hoosiers and their families,” she said.

Judge Bonaventura has led or served on many boards and commissions as part of her advocacy for children. In addition, she has received many awards and citations for her work. A Lake County native, she earned a Juris Doctor degree from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, and received an honorary Doctor of Arts and Humane Letters degree from Marian University.

Food Inspection Report For Vanderburgh County

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