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JUST IN: FIRE DEPARTMENT DISCOVERED DECEASED PERSON
JUST IN: FIRE DEPARTMENT DISCOVERED DECEASED PERSON
The Vanderburgh County Coroners Office was called to a residence at 821 Taylor Ave. after the Evansville Fire Department had responded to the report of a house fire and discovered a deceased person inside.
The victim has been identified as Charles Jackson, age 94, the sole resident of the home. An autopsy has been scheduled for Tuesday to determine if the death was related to the fire or occurred prior to it. The Evansville Fire Department is investigating the cause and origin of the fire.
Authority,
Steve Lockyear
Vanderburgh County Coroner
Breaking News: One Suspect Arrested, Two Still At Large Following Sunday Morning Pharmacy Robbery
 Evansville Police responded to a robbery in progress at CVS Pharmacy at Oak Hill and Morgan at 6:00am on Sunday.
Officers located 20 year old JAWAUN HARLIN of Indianapolis in the store. HARLIN had an employee pinned to the floor when officers arrived. He tried to flee, but was quickly captured.
Two other suspects were involved in the robbery. Both fled before officers arrived. Â They were black males wearing hoodies with their faces partially covered.
No weapons were displayed, but at least one employee was assaulted during the robbery.
Police are asking anyone with information on the two remaining suspects to call EPD or WeTip at 1-800-78-CRIME.
FOOTNOTE: All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
UE Men Pick Up Huge Win Over Bradley
Averaging 21 points per game in his first three Missouri Valley Conference games of the season, Ryan Taylor matched that output once again on Saturday, scoring 21 as the University of Evansville men’s basketball team took a 68-44 win over Bradley on Saturday inside the Ford Center.
Taylor hit 8 of his 17 field goals on the day and was 4-for-6 from outside. He was one of three to hit double figures for the Purple Aces (11-6, 1-3 MVC). Dru Smith finished the day with 14 points while Blake Simmons had 12. The offense was rolling as the Aces were credited with 23 assists on 25 makes. K.J. Riley posted seven while Smith and Simmons finished with six and five, respectively.
“Bradley plays as hard as anybody we will see all year and it was up to us to match them,” UE head coach Marty Simmons said after the win. “This is about as hard as we have played all season.”
“We had a good practice yesterday and it really carried over into today,” Simmons added.
Pacing Bradley (12-5, 2-2 MVC) was Donte Thomas, who had 12 points and four steals. ElIjah Childs hit 5 out of 7 shots to tally 10 points.
“This was a must win based on how close we have been,” Aces senior Blake Simmons explained. “We knew we had to execute, play well and listen to the coaches. We did that and picked up a big win tonight.”
Ryan Taylor opened the day with a triple, accounting for three of his game-high 10 first-half points. UE continued to lead until the Braves tied it at 10-10 on a Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye triples at the 16:19 mark.
The decisive run of the first half came with the Aces up 16-14 with 13:08 on the clock. Evansville reeled off the next 14 points while holding Bradley scoreless for seven minutes. Blake Simmons began the run with a three while Taylor added five in the run to give UE a 30-16 lead with six minutes remaining in the half.
Bradley cut into the lead just a bit with three points in the final two seconds of the period to make it a 35-25 game going into the break. They were able to get within eight points on the first possession of the second stanza before Evansville solidified its advantage.
Up 38-29, the Purple Aces were able to post 10 in a row led by a Noah Frederking 3-pointer and an and-one by Dru Smith. Midway through the half, Frederking’s third field goal of the game set the advantage at 21 points – 52-31.
The lead never got under 19 in the final 10 minutes as the Aces pulled off the win by a final of 68-44.
Frederking had an efficient outing for the squad. He notched seven points on a perfect 3-for-3 shooting and hauled in a career-best five rebounds. Dainius Chatkevicius had a game-high seven caroms and notched six points while Riley added six points and five rebounds to go along with seven assists.
Evansville outshot Bradley by a 49.0%-34.9% tally and finished a perfect 10-10 from the charity stripe. Rebounding also went UE’s way by a 35-22 final.
“We definitely needed this,” Dru Smith said. “As long as we can keep executing the game plan and continue to play hard on defense, we will continue on this path.”
That path continues at the Ford Center on Wednesday as the Aces welcome Missouri State in a 7 p.m. game.
USI goes cold at Drury, falls 71-61
The University of Southern Indiana men’s basketball team went cold in the second half and lost to Drury University, 71-61, Saturday afternoon in Springfield, MO. USI saw its record fall to12-4 overall and 3-1 in the GLVC, while Drury goes to 9-2, 3-1 GLVC.
The Screaming Eagles and the Panthers traded control of the game throughout the opening half that featured 15 lead changes and four ties. USI’s largest leads of the half was three points, 11-8 at 13:29 and 34-31 at 1:09.
Offensively, the Eagles had seven different players score in the opening half, junior guard Alex Stein (Evansville, Indiana) leading way with nine points. Senior forward Julius Rajala (Helsinki, Finland) followed with eight points.
In the second half, USI and Drury continued to trade buckets until the Eagles seemed to take control with an 8-2 run to lead by three, 42-39, with 16:33 remaining. The Panthers, however, responded with a 12-0 run and took command with a 13-point lead, 66-53, with 2:09 to play. Drury would cruise the rest of the way to its 71-61 win as USI could get no closer than nine points in the final 76 seconds.
Individually for the Eagles, Stein led three players in double-digits with 16 points. Rajala followed with 12 points, while junior guard/forward Nate Hansen (Evansville, Indiana) rounded out the double-digit scorers with 11 points.
Rajala led USI on the glass with a career-high 12 rebounds for this second double-double of 2017-18. Senior forward DayJar Dickson (Washington, D.C.) also reached double-figures on the glass for the fourth time this season with 11 boards.
The Eagles return to the friendly surroundings of the Physical Activities Center Thursday when they host the University of Indianapolis for a 7:30 p.m. match-up. UIndy moved to 9-4 overall and 3-2 in the GLVC after a 76-69 victory at Rockhurst University this afternoon.
USI is leads the all-time series with UIndy, 55-22 overall, 51-21 in conference play. The Eagles also has a 35-8 all-time home mark against the Greyhounds, 34-8 in league action. USI took the first meeting this year in Indianapolis, 73-67, behind the 24-point performance of Rajala.
300 Indiana Townships Could Be Affected by House Republican Proposal
JANUARY 7th, 2018Â 
 TYRONE MORRIS INDIANA
 More than 300 Indiana townships could be eliminated under a proposal by House Republicans.
It targets townships with populations of fewer than 1,200. Over the next five years, it would likely affect property owners’ taxes.
House Speaker Brian Bosma has introduced the plan. The Indiana Township Association says people living in those smaller townships could see better fire and EMS service thanks to combined tax bases.
Indiana has 1,005 townships, but as rural populations have dropped off, some townships have struggled to afford basic needs.
PHONY PROPHETS PAINTING AN ALTERNATE GLOBAL WARMING REALITY?
By Susan Stamper Brown
On December 28, President Trump wrote on Twitter: “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!â€
Predictably, social media lit up with comments by agitated alarmists who apparently believe everything, including the gas problem their great uncle had during Christmas dinner, is caused by global warming. They won’t be happy until the Earth freezes over and everyone dies.
They must have missed the news that Escambia County Florida had nearly two inches of snow on December 10, Erie, Pennsylvania just broke a 59-year-old snowfall record and International Falls, Minnesota had a record-breaking 37 degrees below zero Christmas week. This happened thanks to a phenomenon scientists call a “Rossby wave†— not global warming — whereby Alaska blows it’s arctic air south while simultaneously “inhaling†warm air from the tropics. We get a break from the cold while folks in the Lower 48 get to experience what living in Alaska is like without buying a plane ticket.
You’re welcome.
Besides record-breaking cold, alarmists ignore that snowfall has increased for more than a century.
Up here in my little slice of paradise, researchers were recently shocked that the snowfall has doubled on Mt. Hunter in the Alaska range since the mid-1800s. In that same time frame, southcentral Alaska has experienced a 117 percent increase in winter snowfall and a 49 percent increase in summer snowfall. In addition, from 1950 to 2011, many coastal Alaskan towns have experienced winter snow increases ranging from 26 percent in Yakutat to 67 percent in Kodiak.Â
On December 6, 2017, in the Chugach mountains I call home, Thompson Pass, experienced one of history’s most intense snowfalls at a rate of 10 inches per hour. That’s a record even for Thompson Pass which often gets between 600 to 900 inches of snow per year.
Additionally, the sea ice improved this year.
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Alaska’s “cool late-summer weather over the central Arctic Ocean helped preserve sea ice, slowing its melting enough to rank this year’s annual ice minimum as only the eighth lowest in the satellite record, far from the worst it’s been.â€
Record cold. Record snow. Recovering sea ice. But, things are not always as they appear. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology announced in February 2017 they are investigating the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for alleged climate data manipulation after whistleblowers stepped forward, including Dr. John Bates, former principal scientist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville North Carolina who claims NOAA scientists put a “thumb on the scale†to favor their global warming argument.
Maybe this is not about science at all. Maybe it’s more about phony prophets painting fake pictures to produce an alternate reality.
Alarmists are not interested in the indisputable evidence the Earth goes through cyclical periods of cooling and warming. The Earth experienced periods of glaciation, then melting, long before the construction of Al Gore’s energy-devouring Nashville home and Leonardo DiCaprio’s excessive use of private jets.
Gore said the Arctic would be ice free by 2014 and the guy Democrats call a “prophet,†James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Godard Institute for Space Studies, predicted the Arctic ice would melt by the end of 2017.
Oops.
Hansen recently published a paper suggesting we are now on the brink of a short ice age caused by…wait for it…global warming. He claims global temperatures are an “unreliable diagnostic of planetary condition as the ice melt increases†and predicts “large scale regional cooling by mid-century†for the North Atlantic and Southern oceans.
Obviously, climate alarmists have the same answer for every weather pattern, so the rest of us normal folks should forget them and focus on reality. Right about now, a little global warming sounds nice as we dream of white sandy beaches, not the white powdery stuff outside our windows waiting to be shoveled.
FOOTNO)TE: ©2018 Susan Stamper Brown Susan lives in Alaska and writes about culture, politics and current events. She is a regular contributor to Townhall and The Christian Post. Susan’s nationally syndicated column is published in scores of newspapers and publications across the U.S. She was selected as one of America’s 40 Best Conservative columnists for 2017, and one of the 50 Best for 2015 and 2016.Â
The City County Observer posted this article without opinion, bias or editing.