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EPD REPORT

Scott tallies double-double as Aces fall at ISU

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Evansville defense dominates early before Sycamores find rhythm
Junior center Kelsi Scott recorded a double-double to lead the Purple Aces as the University of Evansville could not hold off Indiana State late in a 56-48 loss on Friday night in Terre Haute, Ind. at the Hulman Center.

Scott scored 10 points and recorded a career-high 13 rebounds while sophomore guard Macie Lively added 10 points of her own and tied a career-high with eight boards. The Aces opened the game shooting 36.7% (11-30) from the field in the first half, but finished the game shooting 20% (5-25) in the second half. Indiana State was led by Wendi Bibbins who scored a game-high 16 points, adding eight rebounds and five blocks. Evansville stifled the Sycamores in the opening half, keeping Indiana State to just 15.8% (6-38) shooting from the field. The Sycamores found their rhythm in the second half, shooting 42.4 % (14-33).

After the Sycamores scored the first bucket of the contest, Evansville went on an 8-0 run to pull out to an 8-2 lead. Following a pair of Indiana State free throws with 7:54 left in the opening quarter, both teams endured a 3:20 scoreless streak ended by a layup by Miller. The Sycamores twice cut their deficit to a basket late in the first quarter, but Noe ended the period with a layup to give the Aces a 14-10 lead after the first 10 minutes.

Evansville quickly took control in the second quarter as the Aces went on a 9-0 run to increase their lead to 23-10 with 5:12 left before the half. Defensively, the Aces shined in the second quarter, holding the Sycamores to just five points and taking a 25-15 advantage to the break.

Coming out of the half, Indiana State pushed back. The Sycamores went on a 10-1 run over the first 3:30 to trim the Aces’ lead to 26-25. In the following two minutes, Evansville responded and increased its lead back to five at 30-25, but Indiana State continued to find answers as the Aces lead sat at just one at 36-35 heading into the final quarter.

After Noe opened the quarter with a three, Indiana State responded and gained momentum again. The Sycamores went on a 20-9 in the final period and shot 46.7% from the field to grab the lead and come away with the 56-48 win.

The Aces get a full week off from competition before traveling to take on UNI on Friday, January 12 and wrapping-up the three-game road swing on Sunday, January 14 at Drake.

Confinement Officer Arrested on Felony Battery Charges

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The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a confinement officer on charges of Battery resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. The arrest stems from an on-duty incident in which Confinement Officer Joshua Davis was found to have used excessive and unjustifiable force against a Vanderburgh County Jail inmate.

During the early morning hours of Monday, January 01, 2018 Officer Davis was conducting inmate “roll call” in one of the housing units at the jail. While verifying the inmate count, Officer Davis was subjected to a series of verbal taunts from a group of inmates. Officer Davis elected to enter a cell and challenge one of the inmates to a confrontation, which culminated in Davis striking the inmate several times in the face. The inmate fell and struck his head on a metal bunk, resulting in serious bodily injury.

The jail command staff began an immediate review of the incident and determined that the force used by Officer Davis was not justifiable. The incident was then referred to the Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Section. The inmates who were present during the altercation were interviewed and available surveillance video preserved.

Officer Davis was interviewed by a Sheriff’s Office detective this morning and admitted to entering the cell and striking the inmate. After his statement was taken, Officer Davis was placed into custody and booked into the jail. His employment with the office was terminated shortly after his arrest.

Sheriff Dave Wedding stated, “Officer Davis has been an employee for approximately seven months, having completed his training in August of 2017. All confinement officers are trained in verbal de-escalation techniques, inmate management, defensive tactics and the legal aspects of the use of force. Nothing in the way Officer Davis conducted himself last Monday conformed to his training or met the minimum standards of conduct we expect from our officers and deputies.” Sheriff Wedding added, “While the job of a confinement officer is emotionally challenging, we do not excuse illegal conduct and will always hold our staff accountable for their actions.”

ARRESTED: 

Joshua Jemuel Davis, 30, of Evansville. Battery resulting in Serious Bodily Injury as a Level 5 Felony.

 

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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DCS Evaluation, Redistricting Reform Dominate Legislature

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By City County Observer StateHouse Editor, Gail Riecken
The Statehouse File report of the first meeting of the 2018 legislative session acknowledges Speaker Bosma endorsing the upcoming evaluation of DCS. However, one must question why the Speaker stated at that meeting the problems are not monetary. “I think it’s best for these experts to dive in, give some recommendations and then we can act on them,” Bosma said. “We added $600 million—well over half a billion dollars—to the DCS budget just this biennium. So it’s not a money issue.”
That singular statement ties the hands of the evaluation council company proposed by the Governor and now endorsed by the Speaker and damages the credibility of any final report.
Certainly the problems have been other than money, but many have been tied to money-including underpaid staff, underpaid residential facilities, lack of effective recruitment training-including training, lack of adequate funding for foster care, ongoing training and supervision of foster families and the children living there, all costing money.
These issues were continuously addressed with improvements by the recent director, former judge Mary Beth Bonaventura, when I was watching the DCS as a state representative, but that doesn’t mean the problems were solved.
There was a committee that was supposed to act as an independent committee to oversee the operation, the DCS Oversight Committee, but under the Republican leadership became a useless “reporting out” waste of time. This committee could have done its job, if the government, including the legislative majority party leadership, would have stopped worrying about public embarrassment and started thinking about how transparency can produce progress toward real success in protecting the health and welfare of our children.
Government officials, including the legislature should not hamper the investigation. Government should not limit the evaluation process. And, you and I need to know more about this company that is heading up the evaluation.
A couple of weeks ago, I asked an IndyStar reporter to investigate the company being hired to evaluate. I did not get a response. But we, the public, need to know the company’s credentials. What are the 20 states that they have serviced? What has been their experience? Who are the principles of the company and what is their background? And, now, I add why does the Speaker deny the money issue knowing it has been front burner for years and the recent director, Director Bonaventura, claims it remains an issue?

Former IU McKinney Dean Dies At 70

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IL for www.theindianalawyer.com

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law alumna and former dean and professor Susanah M. Mead has died, the school announced Thursday.

Mead died Dec. 23 at the age of 70, the school said. She was a 1976 graduate of the Indianapolis law school, where she returned to begin a legal education career in 1978 after clerking for two years for former Indiana Court of Appeals Chief Judge Paul H. Buchanan.

Mead’s service to the law school included positions as a legal writing instructor, professor of torts and product liability and director of the legal writing program. She also created the Dean’s Tutorial Society, which was one of the first organized, volunteer law school peer-tutoring programs in the country.

After being named associated dean for academic affairs in 1997, Mead began to work on the capital campaign that led to the construction of Lawrence W. Inlow Hall. She was then named interim dean of the law school in 2005, a position she held until 2007 as the first woman and alumnus to serve as dean. Mead was also one of IU McKinney’s first tenured female law professors.

 “She became more than just a friend and colleague – but also a role model for how to handle even the most difficult issues with patience, thoughtfulness, and grace,” current Dean Andrew Klein, who served as associate dean for academic affairs under Mead, said in a statement. “Perhaps the core of what I learned from Susie is the importance for a leader to confront challenges head-on, and the value of doing so in an open and civil fashion.”

Aside from her work with the law school, Mead was active in Indiana’s legal community, serving as the co-chair of the Indiana State Bar Association’s Conclave on Legal Education in 2007, and on the bar’s Buchanan Award selection committee. She received multiple honors for her legal contributions, including being named as an Indianapolis Bar Foundation Distinguished Fellow in 2006, receiving the ISBA’s Presidential Citation in 2007 and being recognized as an Indiana Lawyer Leadership in Law Distinguished Barrister in 2009. IU McKinney also honored mead as it Law Alumna of the Year in 2007.

A memorial service for Mead will be held at 2 p.m. Jan. 8 at the Christ Church Cathedral on Monument Circle, with a reception to follow at the Woodstock Club, 1301 W. 38th St., Indianapolis. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Mead’s memory to the Indiana University Foundation, P.O. Box 6460, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Her daughters, Holly, Edie and Sybil, plan to use the funds to support a scholarship for women law students at IU McKinney.

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Messer Wins Grassroots Conservatives Straw Poll

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Luke Messer won a recent U.S. Senate straw poll conducted by the Grassroots Conservatives in Bloomington, Indiana.
Messer led all six primary candidates by an eight-point advantage in the Dec. 28th poll. Below are the results of the straw poll released by the Grassroots Conservatives this week:
  1. Luke Messer 18-1 = 17 pts
  2. Todd Rokita, 11-2 = 9 pts
  3. Andrew Horning, 2-2 = 0 pts
  4. Mark Hurt, 2-2 = 0 pts
  5. Andrew Takami, 0-2 = -2 pts
  6. Mike Braun, 1-7 = -6 pts
 “Grassroots Conservatives were impressed with Rep. Luke Messer’s answers to more than an hour of tough questions on national issues,” said Grassroots Conservatives leader Robert Hall.  “We liked that he sponsored a bill to get rid of a loophole that illegal immigrants use to receive tax credits. And he voted against the $1 trillion Omnibus spending bill in May 2017 that failed to cut domestic spending as proposed by the Trump administration. I feel he is a solid conservative and has the best chance to replace Joe Donnelly as U.S. Senator.”
The straw poll was conducted using a point system in which each YES vote was 1 point and each NO vote was -1 point.
Also in December, Messer led his primary opponents in an IndyPolitics poll on the Indiana U.S. Senate race.

Aces Host Bradley In Saturday’s Courier & Press Game

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The first home game of the calendar year is up next for the University of Evansville men’s basketball team as they welcome Bradley to the Ford Center on Saturday afternoon for a 3 p.m. game.

Fans can get tickets for just $5 for the 3 p.m. game by bringing in the ticket vouchers that will be printed inside the Courier & Press on January 1 and January 5.  You can also bring any issue of the Courier & Press from Dec. 31 through Jan. 6 that does not include a coupon to redeem the same deal.

Vouchers/newspapers can be redeemed at the Carson Center or Ford Center until game time on Saturday.  Redemptions can be done at the Ford Center on the day of the game.  One voucher/newspaper can be redeemed for multiple tickets. These vouchers are good for sections 103-108 and 114-119.  One of the top halftime performances of the season will be on hand Saturday as the ZOOperstars will entertain everyone at the half.

In a battle to the wire on Wednesday, UE fell by a final of 65-63 at Southern Illinois. Four players finished in double figures for the Aces, but SIU shot 65% from outside to hold on for the win.

Another great game saw Dru Smith record 10 points and 7 steals at Southern Illinois; his 7 steals was the most since Colt Ryan had that many against Drake in 2013 and is tied for the 3rd-highest tally in the nation this season.  His effort of seven swipes was the most for the Aces since Colt Ryan had seven against Drake in 2013.  Smith leads the MVC in steals, assists and field goal percentage; he is the only player in the nation to currently lead his conference in those statistics.

It was just another day at the office for Ryan Taylor, who scored 21 points at SIU.  In three games since missing seven with an injury, Taylor has notched 21 points per game.  He has taken at least 16 shots in each MVC game and is shooting 48.2% overall in those three league outings.  The SIU game marked his 7th 20-point game of the season; he had six such games last season.

A 13-point outing at Southern Illinois saw Blake Simmons make it 8 out of 9 games reaching double figures.  Since the beginning of December, Simmons is averaging 13.9 points per game while shooting 57% from the field; he shot just 39% in the first seven games of the season.  Simmons begins the week with 958 career points; he is just 42 shy of becoming the 49th player in program history to score 1,000 in his career.

Bradley is off to a great start this season, recording a 12-4 mark through their first 16 games while winning two out of three MVC contests.  The Braves fell at Drake in the league opener before they defeated UNI and Valparaiso at home.  Darrell Brown is the top offensive threat for Bradley, notching 14.1 points per game and a team-high 65 assists.  Donte Thomas was the leader against the Crusaders, posting 19 points in the 80-71 victory.

 

Citizen’s Academy Spring 2018 Signups Are Underway!

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Open registration for the Evansville Police Department’s spring 2018 Citizen’s Academy is taking place. This is a 10 week program that’s ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE and offered to participants to build citizen’s awareness of police policies and procedures. Presentations are given by officers in specialty units i.e. Swat, Narcotics, Hazardous Devices, Crime Scene, and many more!

The goal of the Citizen’s Academy is to give citizen’s an inside look of the Evansville Police Department to create a better understanding and communication between citizens and police through education. The program begins February 20, so hurry and join. For more information contact Debbie Hildebrant at 812-436-4948 or email her at dhildebrant@evansvillepolice.com.

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