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Gibson County Man Arrested for Resisting and Reckless Driving  

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Gibson County – Early this morning at approximately 1:00, Trooper Alexander Welsh was patrolling US 41 northbound near I-64 when he observed a Ford Mustang and a Yamaha motorcycle traveling north at a high rate of speed.  Trooper Welsh contacted a nearby Gibson County Sheriff’s Deputy and they attempted to stop both vehicles on US 41 south of Fort Branch. The driver of the Mustang stopped, but the rider of the motorcycle accelerated and continued north on US 41 in excess of 120 mph. The rider turned east on CR 800 South and continued to travel at a high rate of speed. Trooper Welsh disregarded the pursuit due to safety reasons.

During the traffic stop with the driver of the Mustang, officers were able to identify the rider of the motorcycle as Chase Singleton, 23, of Fort Branch.  Indiana State Police and Gibson County Sheriff’s Department responded to his residence and arrested Singleton without incident.  He was taken to the Gibson County Jail. He was later released after posting bond.

Arrested and Charges:

  • Chase R. Singleton, 23, Fort Branch, IN

1.Resisting Law Enforcement, Class 6 Felony
2.Reckless Driving, Class C Misdemeanor
3.Speeding – 120 mph/60 mph zone

BREAKING NEWS: Tin Man Brewing Will Cease Evansville Tasting Room Operations Effective Immediately.

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Tin Man. Tin Man Brewing Company will cease Evansville Tasting Room operations effective immediately.

From FB post by Tin Man. 

We entered the brewing scene with an eagerness and enthusiasm that can only be described as blind passion. We love craft beer and always will. Sometimes, as a business owner you hold out longer than you should because you believe things will “turn around”. But things never did. It took us too long to figure out our tasting room/ restaurant/ brew pub dynamic and our production brewery has been burdened with the responsibility of keeping both aspects of the company open. We no longer have the resources to keep that relationship going and it’s with a heavy heart that we announce that we must close the tasting room. All growler fill, food and beverage services will end immediately.

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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http://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/jail-recent-booking-records.aspx

REPUBLISHED EDITORIAL: WITHDRAW THE DECISION TO FIRE DIRECTOR OF BURETTE PARK

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EDITORIAL: COMMISSIONERS SHOULD WITHDRAW THE DECISION TO FIRE DIRECTOR OF BURETTE PARK

Commissioner Shoulders Should Had Recused Himself From Vote Because of Conflict Of Interest

This week we posted many comments concerning the misguided decision to fire the hardworking and qualified Director of Burdette Park.

County Commissioner Ben Shoulders (D) appeared to have cut a backroom deal in order to repay his campaign manager for a job well done.  We consider this to be an act of political patronage at its best. During the campaign, Mr. Shoulders pledged that if elected he would be extremely objective and transparent. The voters signed off on his campaign pledge and elected him to the District 1 County Commissioner seat. We’re disappointed to report that it didn’t take to long for Mr. Shoulders to break his campaign pledge to the people of this community to be open and transparent.

District 3 County Commissioner Cheryl Musgrave’s participation in the firing of the qualified and hard working 28 year old Burdette Parks Director took many by surprise. We consider her decision to support Mr. Shoulders desire to fire Burdette Park Director Jacob Murphy was without cause.   Also many people feel that the hiring of Ben Shoulders campaign manager to replace Mr. Murphy was an unacceptable act of “political patronage.”   For what we are hearing this may have caused her some serious political problems with the general public in the future.

What’s disappointing is that the decision to fire Mr. Murphy was done in private.  Commissioner’s Shoulders and Musgrave never took the time to discuss this matter with all the members of the Burdette Park Advisory Board in order to get their input concerning Mr. Murphy’s overall job performance. They never directly discussed their desire to terminate Mr. Murphy employment with all members of the Vanderburgh County Council.  They didn’t alert the media or the public about the firing of Jacob Murphy and the hiring of Pat Tuley and his wife until after the fact.   Most importantly they didn’t  put this issue on the official County Commission agenda for public discussion.

Pat and Z Tuley have served in different elected and appointed position for many years. Both have serve well in the public sector during the last 25 years. Both have received handsome compersations for the work they did for the taxpayers of Vanderburgh County. However, it looks like it may be time for them to find employment elsewhere other than Burdette Park.  With their political and business connections we expect that they will have little trouble doing so.

We hope that Commissioners Ben Shoulders and Cheryl Musgrave will not only publicly apology to the taxpayers of Vanderburgh County for their bad misjudgment in this matter but they should also rescind the firing of 28 years old Jacob Murphy as the Burdette Parks Director because it’s the right thing to do.

Its time to put this situation behind us and focus on the important issues that will help our county to become even more progressive in the future!

FOOTNOTE: Todays “Readers Poll”  question is: Should County Commissioners Shoulders and Musgrave withdraw their decision to fire the Director of Burdette Park?

MARCH 19, 2017 “READERS FORUM”

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WHAT IS ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

Todays “READERS POLL” question is: Should County Commissioners Shoulders and Musgrave withdraw their decision to fire the Director of Burdette Park?

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CHANNEL 44 NEWS: Spring and Summer Consignment Sale in Owensboro

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Spring and Summer Consignment Sale in Owensboro

It’s called an unforgettable shopping event. Hundreds of families buying and selling items at the spring and summer consignment sale this weekend in Owensboro. The Tot, The Teen and The Wardrobe pop up store at the Owensboro boys and girls club…

Link To City Council Meeting Agenda for Monday, March 20, 2017

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City Council Meeting 03-20-2017 AGENDA

King’s Title Highlights Final Night for IU at NCAA Championships

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 INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana University women’s swimming and diving team capped off a tremendous week at the 2017 NCAA Championships at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Ind.

Indiana placed eighth overall at the NCAA Championships with a total of 185 points. The eighth-place finish is the second-best in school history, while the 185 points are the second-most in school history to last season’s 228. Stanford won the team title with 526.5 points.

IU was the top Big Ten finisher at the NCAA Championships for the third-straight year, as

the Hoosiers posted back-to-back top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships for the first time since accomplishing the feat three times-in-a-row from 2008-10. The top-10 finish is the eighth in school history.

At the NCAA Championships, the Hoosiers had eight individuals earn a total of 24 All-America honors, marking the sixth time in the last nine seasons that Indiana has had 20 or more All-America accolades.

Lilly King continued her domination of the breaststroke, successfully defending her title in the 20 breaststroke on Saturday night, winning the NCAA championship with the best time in history – 2:03.18. King has now won both breaststroke titles the last two seasons.

King’s incredible time reset the American, NCAA, NCAA meet, U.S. Open and IU school record she set last year and the mark also broke the IU Natatorium record.

With her win in the 200 breast, King is the first swimmer or diver in Big Ten history to win four individual national titles. King is also the first to win both the 100 and 200 breast crowns in back-to-back years since Rebecca Soni in 2008-09.

With the two individual NCAA championships this year, Indiana has now won six titles over the last four seasons, which is the most prolific stretch of any Big Ten team in history. IU is also the first squad in league history to win at least one national title in four-consecutive seasons.

Also with the two NCAA crowns this season, Indiana has tied Michigan for the most individual and relay titles in Big Ten history with 10

Jessica Parratto was stellar in the Championship Final of the platform dive, placing second overall with a total score of 314.45. Parratto, the two-time Big Ten and 2015 NCAA champion in the event came on strong in her final two dives.

Sitting in fourth place with two rounds to go, Parratto scored a 67.65 and 70.40 in her final two attempts to climb the leaderboard. The redshirt sophomore was a huge asset to the Hoosiers during the week, scoring points in all three diving events.

In the Championship Final of the 200 backstroke, Kennedy Goss was outstanding, placing seventh overall for the Hoosiers with a time of 1:50.94. Her mark is the seventh-fastest time in school history and the junior now owns five of the top-eight times in school history.

Gia Dalesandro brought her illustrious Indiana career to a close on Saturday night, placing third  in the Consolation Final of the 200 butterfly to finish 11th overall with a time of 1:54.58.

Dalesandro, the four-time Big Ten champion in the 200 fly, touched in the wall in the third-fastest time in history. Overall, Dalesandro owns nine of the top-10 times in the event at Indiana.

In the 1,650 freestyle, the Hoosiers had a pair of fantastic personal-best swims. Freshman Cassie Jernberg lowered her PR by nearly two seconds, placing 14th with a time of 16:01.94. In her last swim for IU, senior Stephanie Marchuk took her PR down by over four seconds, placing 15th with a mark of 16:02.27.

With their times, Jernberg ranks as the fifth-best performer in the event at Indiana, while Marchuk ranks sixth in school history.

With their performances on Saturday, Goss earned her 11th All-America honor, Dalesandro her ninth, King her eighth, Parratto her fifth, Marchuk her third and Jernberg her first.

Be sure to keep up with all the latest news on the Indiana men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams on social media – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

200 Backstroke

  1. Kennedy Goss – 1:50.94 (All-America)

 

200 Breaststroke

  1. Lilly King – 2:03.18 (American, NCAA, NCAA Meet, U.S. Open, Pool and School Record; All-America)

 

200 Butterfly

  1. Gia Dalesandro – 1:54.58 (Honorable Mention All-America)

 

Platform Dive

  1. Jessica Parratto – 314.45 (All-America)

 

1,650 Freestyle

  1. Cassie Jernberg – 16:01.94 (Personal Best, Honorable Mention All-America)
  2. Stephanie Marchuk – 16:02.27 (Personal Best, Honorable Mention All-America)

 

2017 Indiana All-America Honors

Delaney Barnard (1) – 800 Freestyle Relay (HM)

Gia Dalesandro (5) – 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly (HM), 200 Medley Relay, 400 medley Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay (HM)

Kennedy Goss (4) – 500 Freestyle, 400 Medley Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay (HM)

Maria Paula Heitmann (1) – 800 Freestyle Relay (HM)

Cassie Jernberg (1) – 1,650 Freestyle (HM)

Lilly King (4) – 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay

Stephanie Marchuk (1) – 1,650 Freestyle (HM)

Jessica Parratto (3) – Platform Dive, 1-Meter Dive (HM), 3-Meter Dive (HM)

Ali Rockett (2) – 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay

Holly Spears (2) – 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay

 

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Dissent: Teen Killer’s 110-Year Sentence Warrants Review

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Dissent: Teen Killer’s 110-Year Sentence Warrants Review

Dave Stafford for www.theindianalawyer.com

A man who was convicted of murdering two people in an East Chicago confrontation in 1996 when he was 16 is entitled by subsequent U.S. Supreme Court rulings to a fresh look at his sentence, a dissenting 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judge wrote.

The majority of the three-judge panel denied and dismissed Gary native McKinley Kelly’s motion for an order authorizing the district court to entertain a second or successive petition for collateral review of denial of his petition for habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254.

“We agree with the State: Kelly was afforded all he was entitled to under [Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455 (2012)],” Judge Daniel Manion wrote for the majority joined by Chief Judge Diane Wood. That decision held mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders is unconstitutional, and the holding of Miller was made to apply retroactively in McKinley v. Butler, 809 F.3d 908 (7th Cir. 2016).

According to the trial court record, Kelly was 16 when he and several other people pulled their vehicles into an East Chicago driveway where three men were standing. Kelly and the others got out, an altercation ensued, and Kelly fired the first shot. Maruice Hobson, Karl Jackson and Vincent Ray, who had been in the driveway, were killed that night. A Lake County jury convicted Kelly of all three murders, but one conviction was vacated. He was given the advisory sentence of 55 years in prison on both sentences, to be served consecutively.

The Indiana Supreme Court in 1999 affirmed Kelly’s convictions, and the majority of the 7th Circuit panel dismissed his latest petition for relief, reiterating the trial court findings Indiana’s justices relied upon. Those included the facts that Miller was already on probation with the juvenile court; he shot multiple victims at close range; the killings showed a lack of respect for human life; and he was a risk to commit future crimes. The trial court noted his age as a mitigating factor in handing down the advisory sentence.

“The sentencing court had considerable leeway in fashioning Kelly’s sentence and in fact considered his age when deciding on the appropriate term,” the majority concluded in denying the petition for relief in McKinley Kelly v. Richard Brown, 17-1244.

But dissenting Judge Richard Posner cited a litany of research and recent Supreme Court precedent regarding high rates of rehabilitation for youthful offenders to urge reconsideration of Kelly’s sentence, which he argued is a de facto life sentence.

“(T)he judge found that the killings were not planned and were tragic for everyone involved, including Kelly,” Posner wrote. The judge mused that there ‘have always been disagreements among young people,’ and that what would have been a fist fight or a knife fight in years past, today has elevated consequences because of the ubiquity of guns; not the stuff of a crime demonstrating the complete depravity and irredeemability of Kelly.

“We should allow him to pursue his Miller claim in the district court, which should conduct a hearing to determine whether he is or is not incorrigible.”

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