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Flood Relief Donation Drive this Saturday
- The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office has partnered with local businesses and civic organizations to provide flood relief supplies to the Houston area.
The Sheriff’s Office, Evansville Garage Doors, the Evansville Otters 12U travel baseball team, the 16U Lady Otters travel softball team, Subway (US41 and Morgan Ave), Evansville Boys & Girls Club, and Kitch & Schreiber Advertising are participating.
Non-perishable items such as sealed water bottle packs, canned goods, cleaning supplies, paper products and other dry goods are being collected.
On Saturday, September 02 and Saturday, September 09 three collection stations will be operated from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Relief supplies can be brought to one of the following locations:
- North High School Baseball Field at 15331 US Hwy 41 North
- Boys and Girls Club at 700 Bellemeade Ave
- Evansville Garage Doors at 808 Division Street
Supplies can also be dropped off at Evansville Garage Doors Monday through Friday from 7 AM to 5 PM. Monetary donations cannot be accepted. For a list of FEMA approved disaster charities that accept monetary donations, please click here.
On September 11, 2017 Evansville Garage Doors will truck the supplies to Texas for delivery to an approved distribution center.
We hope to see you at one of the collection centers listed above this Saturday! Please email info@vanderburghsheriff.com with any questions.
Supreme Court Disbars Attorney For Committing A Dozen Conduct Violations
Supreme Court Disbars Attorney For Committing A Dozen Conduct Violations
Olivia Covington for www.theindianalawyer.com
A Rockville attorney accused of a dozen professional conduct violations for mismanaging his trust account and disobeying a court order has been disbarred.
The Indiana Supreme Court reached that decision Thursday in the disciplinary action, In the Matter of: John Downey Pierce, 61S00-1703-DI, 153. The complaint filed by the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission alleges in September 2015, Rockville attorney John Downey Pierce commingled personal and client funds in his trust account and wrote three checks from that account for personal expenses, resulting in an overdraft. After the commission began an investigation into the matter, Pierce produced false documents that failed to adequately reflect deposits or transactions from the account.
The complaint also alleges Pierce failed to appear in court for his clients’ uncontested adoption hearing, and failed to complete related paperwork. The judge in the case ordered a show cause hearing, which Pierce failed to appear at, prompting the judge to file a grievance with the commission.
Finally, the complaint alleges Pierce failed to respond to the commission with respect to another grievance, which led to the initiation of show cause proceedings. Pierce also never responded to the full disciplinary complaint filed against him.
The hearing officer in Pierce’s case found his disciplinary history – which includes five completed and one pending action, according to the Indiana Roll of Attorneys – his selfish motive, his multiple offenses and his failure to acknowledge the wrongfulness of his action as aggravating factors, among others. The Indiana Supreme Court agreed and found Pierce in violation of 12 professional conduct and discipline rules.
Specifically, the high court found Pierce – who is already under indefinite suspension – to be in violation of Indiana Professional Conduct Rule 1.3; 1.15(a); 3.2; 3.4(c); 8.1(a) and (b); and 8.4(a) – (d), as well as Indiana Admission and Discipline Rules 23(29)(a)(3) and (4).
“We have disbarred other attorneys who have demonstrated similar unfitness to be entrusted with the responsibilities that accompany a license to practice law in this state,†the per curiam opinion says. “We acknowledge that Respondent may not have stolen as much money as some other disbarred attorneys, or been as pervasively dishonest or neglectful, but this offers faint praise. The nature of Respondent’s misconduct, coupled with his serial noncooperation and his failure to participate in these proceedings, persuade us that disbarment is the appropriate sanction here, as well.â€
Chief Justice Loretta Rush and Justices Steve David and Christopher Goff concurred with the sanction of disbarment, but Justices Mark Massa and Geoffrey Slaughter dissented from that sanction. While they agreed with the findings, the dissenting justices would impose a three-year suspension without automatic reinstatement.
The costs of the proceedings are also assessed against Pierce.
FIRST FRIDAYS FINAL EVENT OF THE YEAR!
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Hydrofest Safety Information
The Evansville Police Department, Evansville Fire Department, EMS and other Public Safety workers take the well-being of the Citizens of Evansville very seriously and would like to remind people of several items that will help make the event safe for everyone:
• With terrorist actions taking place on the world stage such as trucks running into large crowds of people, the EPD would ask that anyone having information of a large truck being rented under suspicious circumstances or a large truck or van being stolen to please report this to the Evansville Police Department as soon as possible.
• Because of terrorist events and other dangers, all packages of any type are subject to search at any time in the vicinity of these events.
• TENTS AND UMBRELLAS ARE NOT ALLOWED
• NO FIREWORKS
• NO PET DOGS OR PETS OF ANY KIND
• NO SKATEBOARDS
• NO BICYCLES
• NO ROLLERBLADES OR SKAT ES
• NO WATERGUNS
• CAN NOT BLOCK THE SIDEWALK ON THE LEVI
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BRING A 12 INCH BY 12 INCH BY 12 INCH COOLER INTO THE FESTIVAL AREA. ANYTHING LARGER WILL NOT BE ALLOWED.
PLEASE HELP TO MAKE THE EVANSVILLE HYDROFEST A SAFE AND ENJOYABLE EVENT FOR EVERYONE.
ADOPT A PET
Sandy is a female 3-year-old American rabbit. She was surrendered to VHS with five other female rabbits from an owner in Vincennes with terminal cancer. Sandy is the last one left, and she’d really love to go home soon! If you’re on the fence about adopting a bunny… Sandy is spayed & microchipped, which are two services that pet store bunnies would never come with. She recently went to a program for preschool-age kids at Ark Crisis Child Care Center and did great! Sandy’s adoption fee is only $40 and she’s ready to go home today.  Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 for adoption details!
Otters even series with close win over Cornbelters
The Evansville Otters took game two of the series against the Normal Cornbelters 3-1 to even the series in front of an announced crowd of 1,754 at Bosse Field on Wednesday night.
Evansville (51-41) was outhit seven hits to five by the Cornbelters, but starter Felix Baez allowed just one run in the effort.
Normal (47-45) left 10 runners on base in the game and could not take advantage with runners on second and third in the fourth and sixth innings.
Normal was on the board in the first inning on an RBI single from Santiago Chirino to score Yeixon Ruiz. Ruiz led off the inning with a triple, his fourth of the year.
Evansville answered in the bottom half of the frame on an RBI double from Dane Phillips to plate Chris Riopedre. For Phillips, it was his 33rd double of the year placing him just one short of the Otters single season record of 34 set by Josh Allen in 2016.
The Otters got the go-ahead runs in the sixth inning on a two-RBI double from Brandon Soat to bring home Jeff Gardner and John Schultz.
Strong pitching helped power the Otters to the victory. Felix Baez struck out eight batters and gave up just seven hits in 6 and 2/3 innings. Kyano Cummings went 1 and 2/3 innings of scoreless relief before Randy McCurry came in to record his 17th save of the year.
Shawn Blackwell recorded the loss for the Cornbelters.
The Otters and the Cornbelters will play the rubber match of the series tomorrow night at 6:35 p.m. at Bosse Field.
Fans can listen on 91.5 WUEV with Preston Leinenbach (play-by-play) and Bill McKeon (color commentary) on the call.
Tickets for August home games are still available by going to evansvilleotters.com or calling 812-435-8686.
Lynch Road Accident
The victim from today’s vehicle collision on Lynch Road has been identified.  Logan Proctor, age 20 , of Newburgh was the operator of a motorcycle which collided with a semi-tractor. He was taken from the scene via ambulance to Deaconess Emergency room midtown where he died at 15:11 hrs. today. The Evansville Police Department is investigating the circumstances concerning the collision.