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Traffic Stop Nets Two Stolen Guns

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Early this morning at approximately 1:05, Trooper Zackary Fulton was patrolling St. Joseph Avenue near Delaware when he observed a vehicle traveling north with only one operating headlight. Trooper Fulton stopped the vehicle at Thornton’s gas station on St. Joseph Avenue at Maryland Street. The driver was identified as Keenan McDaniel, 19, of Evansville. His passenger was identified as Devon Ranes, 18, of Evansville. While talking to McDaniel, Fulton detected an odor of marijuana inside the vehicle. McDaniel, who has a valid Indiana permit to carry a gun, was wearing a Smith and Wesson 9 mm pistol on his right hip. Troopers did not locate any marijuana inside the vehicle, but they found a Keltec .32 caliber pistol on the passenger floorboard. Further investigation revealed the Keltec pistol was reported stolen out of Henderson, KY and the Smith and Wesson 9 mm pistol was reported stolen out of Vanderburgh County. McDaniel and Ranes were arrested and taken to the Vanderburgh County Jail where they are currently being held on bond.

Arrested and Charges:

  • Keenan McDaniel, 19, Evansville, IN
  1. Theft
  • Devon Ranes, 18, Evansville, IN
  1. Theft
  2. Carrying a Handgun without a Permit

Arresting Officer: Trooper Zackary Fulton, Indiana State Police

Assisting Officer: Trooper Taylor Fox, 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.

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USI Volleyball suffers four-set loss to Truman

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University of Southern Indiana Volleyball suffered a 25-23, 16-25, 22-25, 23-25 Great Lakes Valley Conference setback Saturday afternoon, marking just the second loss for the Screaming Eagles in the last 10 matches.

Freshman setter Casey Cepicky (St. Louis, Missouri) had 55 assists and 15 digs to lead USI, while freshman outside hitter Alyssa Yochum (Columbia, Illinois) finished with a season-high 16 kills and a .333 attacking percentage.

The Eagles (11-15, 4-9 GLVC) also got 11 kills and seven digs from senior middle hitter Te’Ayla Whitfield (Fort Wayne, Indiana) as well as 10 kills from sophomore outside hitter Mikaila Humphrey (Floyd Knobs, Indiana). Sophomore middle hitter Elexis Coleman (Joliet, Illinois) added nine kills and a .368 attacking percentage, while sophomore right side hitter Shawntel James (Elkhart, Indiana) contributed seven kills and a .375 attacking percentage in just two sets.

Senior libero Shannon Farrell (Munster, Indiana) inched closer to USI’s all-time dig mark as she finished with a match-high 28. Farrell needs just 55 digs to pass USI’s all-time mark of 1,848, which was set by Kayla Heldman (2010-13).

USI returns to action Friday at 7 p.m. when it begins a three-match homestand against GLVC foe Quincy University.

Set 1
USI overcame a late three-point deficit by winning seven of the final nine rallies to claim the two-point win and one-set advantage. Humphrey had six kills and hit .625 to lead the Eagles, offensively, while Farrell had eight digs in the opener.

Set 2
The Eagles had nine attacking errors and were held to a .091 attacking percentage as Truman rolled to the nine-point win. Truman, which benefited from an 8-2 run, posted a .387 attacking percentage to even the match at a set apiece. Cepicky had 12 assists to lead USI in set two.

Set 3
Truman (13-12, 6-7 GLVC) outscored the Eagles 7-1 in the final eight rallies to pick up the three-point win and one-set lead in the match. The Eagles, who hit .368 in the third frame, led 21-18 before the Bulldogs strung together four straight points to grab the lead. Yochum had four kills and a .333 attacking percentage to lead USI in the third stanza.

Set 4
USI saw an early six-point lead slip away as Truman rallied for a two-point, match-clinching win. Yochum had seven kills and a .385 attacking percentage to lead USI, which hit .304 as a team in the fourth set.

 

UE Volleyball takes down Southern Illinois, 3-0

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Mildrelis Rodriguez finishes with 14 kills

 Mildrelis Rodriguez led all players with 14 kills to lead the University of Evansville volleyball team to a 3-0 sweep against MVC rival Southern Illinois inside Meeks Family Fieldhouse.

Rodriguez tallied her 14 kills in 37 attempts and also registered 8 digs.  Cathy Schreiber also had a great night for UE (10-14, 4-8 MVC) as she totaled 11 kills.  Cassie Brooks led the way with 20 digs and Allana McInnis notched 17 assists, 8 digs and two service aces.  Brooks also notched two aces.

The sweep was the first for the Purple Aces in a conference match since defeating Bradley by a 3-0 final on Oct. 3, 2014 in a home match.

Southern Illinois (5-18, 4-8 MVC) saw Patience Brown and Maggie Nedoma post seven kills apiece.

Adeline Payne had a solo block in the early going as the Purple Aces scored the opening two points of the night.  Southern Illinois quickly came back to tie it at 4-4 before taking their first lead at 7-6.  SIU widened its lead to 9-6 before an Allana McInnis service ace got UE within one at 10-9.  The Salukis had the answer once again and stretched their lead out to 24-19.

That is when things got interesting.  Mildrelis Rodriguez took over and notched three kills in a run that saw the Aces tie it up at 24-24.  The back-and-forth action continued before UE put the finishing touches on the set.  With the score tied at 28-28, Taylor Jones notched a service ace before Cathy Schreiber and Rachel Tam had a block to give UE the win.

Riding the momentum they gained from the exciting opening set win, UE scored the first three points of the game and continued to lead at 6-4 as Rocio Fortuny had three early kills.  The Salukis made their way back, taking their first edge of the frame at 8-7.  They would hold the lead until UE went up 16-15 as Fortuny posted another kill.

SIU took its turn, reeling off the next four to take a 19-16 lead before it reached four at 21-17.  UE rallied as another pivotal McInnis ace tied the score up at 23-23.  The run continued with Rodriguez finishing it off with her 12th kill of the evening as UE took a 2-0 match lead with a 25-23 win.

UE had a strong start to game three, taking a 7-2 lead.  Later, Rachel Tam ace pushed the lead to six at 11-5.  Evansville’s lead continued to grow as two more aces, both by Cassie Brooks, made it a 19-11 game.  The Aces put the icing on the cake, running away to a 25-13 win to earn their first MVC match sweep in three years.

Evansville returns to the road next weekend for a swing through the state of Iowa.  A match at UNI begins the weekend on Friday before the Aces head to Des Moines to take on Drake.  Both matches begin at 7 p.m.

 

 Aces battle, but fall to Drake, 1-0

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                                                 Evansville can’t find late goal despite creating chances

Despite a flurry of chances late, the University of Evansville men’s soccer team was unable to find an equalizer as the Aces fell to Drake, 1-0, on Saturday evening at Arad McCutchan Stadium.

“It’s a cruel game, the sport of soccer. They had one shot in the second half and they scored. We had two off the post, three or four saved off the line and missed a penalty kick,” said Aces men’s soccer head coach Marshall Ray. “It wasn’t for a lack of effort or a lack of ability to create chances we just didn’t finish the chances we got. We were a bit unlucky and they finished the one chance they had. I have to give them credit and Caden (McCullough) had a great game this evening in goal for them.

Senior midfielders Ian McGrath and Arlick Ntabana led the Aces with three shots each. In goal, senior Matthew Keller made a pair of saves, allowing one goal. For the Bulldogs, Alex Peterson scored the lone goal in the match, while Antonio Sanchez and Leroy Enzugusi each had a pair of shots.

The first half passed without much event as the two sides combined for just five goals in the opening half.

Evansville looked poised to find its breakthrough in the 68th minute as the Aces fired three shots on-goal that were either blocked or saved.

In the 80th minute, Drake scored after a scrum in the box as the ball fell to the feet of Peterson, who finished it into the back of the net. The Aces had a pair of chances to equalize in the final five minutes. After a foul in the box, McGrath stepped to the spot for a penalty kick that was saved by Bulldog goalkeeper Caden McCullough.

With the clock ticking under 10 seconds, freshman Filip Johansson took one final shot from just inside the box that curled towards goal and just glanced off the post and out as the horn sounded.

In the match, Evansville out-shot Drake, 14-6, while the Bulldogs held a 4-2 advantage on corner kicks.

The Aces wrap-up a three-match homestand on Tuesday at 7 p.m. against Northern Kentucky as Evansville hosts its Senior Night as well as Trick-or-Treat with the Aces.

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Reports

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“READERS FORUM” OCTOBER 29, 2017

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Romans 2-Year-Olds Work For Breeders’ Cup Juvenile

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Romans 2-Year-Olds Work For Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
DEL MAR, Calif. (Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017) — Dale Romans doesn’t know if the Albaugh Family Stables’ 2-year-olds Free Drop Bill and Hollywood Star are as talented as his 2016 standout Not This Time. But the Louisville-based trainer believes both are good enough and doing well enough to win next Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar — the championship-crowning race that Not This Time narrowly lost last year at Santa Anita.
Free Drop Billy, the sharp winner of Keeneland’s Grade 1 Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity in his last start after losing Saratoga’s Hopeful in a photo finish, enhanced his growing reputation with a workout which the clockers timed for three-quarters of a mile in 1:14 2/5 Saturday morning at Del Mar. That followed an impressive move of five-eighths in 59 3/5 seconds at Santa Anita a week earlier, the fastest of 70 works at the distance.
“A year ago we had an awfully special horse,” said Romans, who as early as Sunday could overtake Hall of Famer Bill Mott as Churchill Downs’ all-time win leader. “I always say he’s the best 2-year-old I’ve ever had in Not This Time. But Billy is a horse that just keeps getting better and better and better. He’s so athletic, the way he gets over the racetrack and does things so easy. His two works in California have been absolutely spectacular. If he’s good enough, he’ll win.”
Romans called it a five-eighths of a mile work, which he clocked in 1:01, with a six-furlong gallop-out time of 1:13 3/5. He said the plan was to “just sit on him and without encouraging him, see what he wanted to do on his own. He had a fast work last week, and this week we wanted to leave a little bit in the tank. Hard to fill your tank up with seven days to a race if you empty it out.”
Tammy Fox, Romans’ life partner who is Free Drop Billy’s exercise rider, said that while last week’s work was quicker, she liked this one even better.
“He felt stronger to me,” she said. “He just skips over this racetrack. You don’t hear anything from him. He could sneak up a horse and neither the rider or the other horse would ever know it. That’s how quiet he is.
“Going into a big race like this a week out, everything is good. You couldn’t ask him to do any better. He’s not a big horse, but for his size, his stride is bigger than what you’d think. Just so fluent, and he reaches. Every step he makes on that dirt is just more of a reach for him. You can feel the acceleration and the power that he brings to me. That’s what I feel in my hands. It’s a pretty cool feeling.”
Not so impressive was Hollywood Star, a close second to 3-for-3 Juvenile hopeful The Tabulator in Churchill Downs’ Grade 2 Iroquois, who worked more lethargically. Hollywood Star was timed five-eighths of a mile in 1:02 in a short-lived experiment wearing blinkers. Hollywood Star, a $650,000 yearling purchase by the Spendthrift Farm stallion Malibu Moon and out of the multiple Grade 1-winner Hollywood Story, worked in 1:00 3/5 last week at Santa Anita.
“Sure didn’t look like he liked them,” Romans said of the blinkers. “He didn’t work near as well as Billy did.”
Though Hollywood Star’s last race was Sept. 16, Romans said he’s not worried that colt didn’t get enough out of the workout. “He’s plenty fit,” he said. “That’s plenty for him. I just wish he’d breeze on his own like he would in company and work like we know he can run.
“Even his last work at Santa Anita, he’ll work a while then drop the bit. His ears go back and forth. He’s never been focused from start to finish of a work or a race. When he figures it all out, he’s going to be a superstar. And I was thinking the blinkers might keep him focused all the way through. But they might just have aggravated him.”
Romans and Jason Loutsch, racing manager and partner with father-in-law Dennis Albaugh in the stable, are not prepared to put Free Drop Billy in the same league as Not This Time, the Iroquois winner who was making his third start in the Breeders’ Cup when he dropped a neck decision to Classic Empire, coming out of the race with what proved a career-ending injury. But they love how the chestnut colt with the big white blaze is progressing and always believed he would thrive at longer distances. A son of the Lane’s End stallion Union Rags and a $200,000 Keeneland yearling, Free Drop Billy won his June 15 debut at Churchill Downs, was second in Saratoga’s Grade 3 Sanford and the Hopeful, then powered to a four-length triumph in the 1 1/16-mile Breeders’ Futurity. (See stretch run)
“I think he has taken a step forward,” said Loutsch, who watched the work live on the TVG racing network while home in Des Moines, Iowa. “I thought he looked tremendous on the track, really relaxed the first half of the work. And when Tammy asked him down the lane, I thought he really just exploded — bellied down and did exactly what we wanted. We have no excuses going into next weekend.”
Robby Albarado, regular rider of both colts, opted to ride Free Drop Billy, with Joel Rosario to ride Hollywood Star.
A third Albaugh 2-year-old, the 2-for-2 Ellis Park Juvenile winner Dak Attack, missed the Breeders’ Futurity and subsequently the Breeders’ Cup with a tender shin. He could run in either Churchill Downs’ Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club on Nov. 25 or Remington Park’s Springboard Mile on Dec. 17, both offering points toward 2018 Kentucky Derby qualification.
“He never came out of training,” Loutsch said. “It was a really tough decision when we talked about it with Bret Jones (whose family bred Dak Attack and bought back into the colt after his purchase). We said, ‘Do we want to press on this and go forward? Or do we want to make sure he’s 100 percent going into the 3-year-old campaign? I think we made the right decision.
“Last year we were going with our superstar into the Breeders’ Cup and he had to be retired. To have three options like we do this year going into the Derby campaign is huge. These are animals and athletes and things happen. The more opportunities you have, the better your chances. To have two horses in the Breeders’ Cup is really, really cool. And our goal is to get three in the Kentucky Derby.”

Hamilton, Shepard To Present 2017 Indiana Civic Health Index At USI

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The Indiana Bar Foundation will present the results of the Indiana Civic Health Index (ICHI) at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, November 1 in University Center Room 2217 and 2218 on the University of Southern Indiana campus. The event is open to the public as seating is available.

Featured speakers at the presentation include former U.S. House of Representatives member Lee Hamilton, former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard and Chuck Dunlap, executive director of the Indiana Bar Foundation.

2017 is the third release of the ICHI by the Indiana Bar Foundation and its partners the Indiana Supreme Court, National Conference on Citizenship, the Indiana University Center on Representative Government, Indiana University Northwest, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the Indiana University Center for Civic Literacy. The first Indiana Civic Health indexes were previously published in 2011 and 2015. This updated publication shows a longer period for analysis of the importance of education and the increase in civic participation as education levels increase.

Key findings include information such as Indiana residents’ participation in activities associated with healthy communities and families, frequency of time spent with family and voter turnout among others.

The full 2017 Indiana Civic Health Index (PDF link) can be found online at inbf.org.

For more information contact Charles Dunlap at 317-269-7861 or cdunlap@inbf.org.

Hamilton, Shepard and Dunlap will be available for media interviews at 10:30 a.m. following the presentation.

Special Vanderburgh County Commissioners November 1, 2017 Meeting Agenda

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Agenda Of The Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners

November 1, 2017, 4:30 pm, Room 301

  1. Call to Order
  2. Attendance
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
  4. Action Items 
    1. Healthcare Insurance 2018
  5. Public Comment
  6. Adjournment

Holcomb Statement to Clarify INDOT Tolling Feasibility Study

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INDIANAPOLIS — Governor Holcomb has directed INDOT to clarify that a request for proposals (RFP) to develop a strategic plan for interstate tolling does not include study of tolling on the I-465 corridor.  The governor said midway through the 2017 legislative session that he did not consider tolling I-465 or similar loops around cities a viable option. He offered the following statement:

“In a March 30th interview, I said regarding tolling, ‘I don’t see I-465 or loops around our cities as viable options.’ For me, it was never a consideration. So to ensure there is no confusion, I have directed INDOT officials to remove the I-465 corridor from any further study.”

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