Consumer Alert from the Office of the Indiana Attorney General

02/18/2017

The Consumer Protection Division (CPD) of the Office of the Indiana Attorney General on Feb. 10 was notified of an attempted W-2 phishing scam that targeted a central Indiana school corporation.

A complainant notified the CPD that a staff member at a central Indiana school corporation received an email that appeared to be from the corporationâ€™s superintendent requesting copies of employee W-2 records â€“ a telltale sign of a recent scam that is targeting businesses, schools, hospitals and nonprofits across the country. The complainant told the CPD that the staff member checked with the superintendent and confirmed that the email was fraudulent.

Cybercriminals, or scammers, will make their personal emails appear as if they are sent from a high-ranking employee at the targeted business or other entity. The email, which requests names of each employee and their Form W-2, is sent to someone in a business, organization or corporationâ€™s human resources or accounting department. If successful, the scammer is able to collect sensitive personal information of each employee.

If you work for a company that has been compromised by such a scam, the Office of the Indiana Attorney General encourages you to sign up for a credit freeze to protect yourself from becoming a victim of identity theft. Hoosiers can visit the Attorney Generalâ€™sÂ Consumer Protection DivisionÂ for more information. You can also fill out anÂ Identity Theft Complaint Form. Contact us at 1-800-382-5516 to speak to a consumer staff member who can help you in obtaining an Identity Theft Affidavit Form 14039, which can be submitted to the IRS if you are a victim of tax fraud. You can also call the Do Not Call Hotline at 1-888-834-9969 for number registration and to file complaints.

Air Quality Forecast For Vanderburgh County

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Air quality forecasts for Evansville and Vanderburgh County are providedÂ as a public service.Â They are best estimates ofÂ predicted pollution levels that can be used as a guide so people can modify their activities and reduce their exposure to air quality conditionsÂ thatÂ may affect their health.Â The forecasts are routinely made available at least a day in advance, and are posted by 10:30 AM Evansville time on Monday (for Tuesday through Thursday) and Thursday (for Friday through Monday).Â When atmospheric conditions are uncertain or favorÂ pollution levels above theÂ National Ambient Air Quality Standards, forecasts are made on a daily basis.

Ozone forecasts are available from mid-April through September 30^th.Â Fine particulate (PM2.5) forecasts are available year round.

	Friday February 17	Saturday February 18	Sunday February 19	Monday February 20	Tuesday February 21
Fine Particulate (0-23Â CST avg) Air Quality Index	moderate	moderate	moderate	moderate	NA*
Ozone Air Quality Index	NA*	NA*	NA*	NA*	NA*
Ozone (peak 8-hr avg) (expected)	NA*	NA*	NA*	NA*	NA*

* Not Available and/or Conditions Uncertain.

Air Quality Action Days

Ozone AlertsÂ are issued by the Evansville EPA when maximum ozone readings averaged over a period ofÂ eight hours are forecasted to reachÂ 71 parts per billion (ppb), or unhealthy for sensitive groups on the USEPAÂ Air Quality IndexÂ scale.

Particulate AlertsÂ are issued by the Evansville EPA when PM2.5 readings averagedÂ over the period of midnight to midnight are forecasted to reach 35Â micrograms per meter cubed (Âµg/m³).

Current conditionsÂ ofÂ OZONEÂ andÂ FINE PARTICULATE MATTERÂ are available in near real-time on the Indiana Department of Environment Management’s website.

National and regional maps of current conditionsÂ are available throughÂ USEPA AIRNow.

Adopt A Pet

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Betty is a female American Fuzzy Lop rabbit. Sheâ€™s about 1 Â½ years old. She has the typical bunny story: purchased online, and then someone realized that bunnies live 10+ years and can be a lot of work. Betty is a sweet & soft bunny seeking an indoor-onlyÂ permanentÂ home. Her $30 adoption fee includes her spay and cardboard carrier. Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 orÂ adoptions@vhslifesaver.orgÂ for adoption details!

Vanderburgh County Felony Charges

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http://www.vanderburghprosecutor.org/

Womenâ€™s tennis set for three weekend matches

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Aces on the road for two and home Sunday

Â Three matches over the next two days are on tap for the University of Evansville womenâ€™s tennis team will be on the road Saturday before heading home on Sunday.

The weekend begins on Saturday at 10 a.m. as the Purple Aces take on Valparaiso at 10 a.m. in Niles, Mich. at the Lakeland Tennis Academy.Â The Crusaders begin the weekend with an 0-4 mark following losses to Dayton and the University of Indianapolis last weekend.

From there, the Aces head south later in the day to Muncie, Ind. where they face Ball State at 5:15 p.m. ET.Â The Cardinals stand at 5-2 with their lone losses coming to Cincinnati and North Carolina.

On Sunday, UE will be at Tri-State Athletic Club for a match against in-city rival USI.Â That match will begin at 5 p.m.Â The Screaming Eagles are 3-1.

Last time out, UE came just short of a big win at Indiana, losing by a final of 4-3.Â Despite a tough start in doubles, the women were able to get it together in singles play, earning victories in flights 2, 4 and 6.Â Leading the way in the second flight was freshman Diana Tkachenko.Â She defeated the Hoosiers’ Caitlin Bernard, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4).

In the fourth flight, Andrea Pascual-Larrinaga defeated Alicia Robinson, 6-2, 6-3.Â Andjela Brguljan helped the Aces earn the split in singles play with an exciting matchup in #6 singles. She earned the win over Emma Love, 4-7, 7-4 (10-8), 1-0 (10-8).

TAPS By Jim Redwine

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Gavel Gamut

By Jim Redwine

www.jamesmredwine.com

(Week of 20 February 2017)

TAPS

I do not play the bugle so any veteranâ€™s farewell from me must come in words. I wrote this tribute to Gene McCoy, Harold Cox and all Korean War Veterans in September 2005. When my friend Gene McCoy passed away February 12 (Lincolnâ€™s birthday), I was reminded of his many years of service to the rest of us about which I had written twelve years ago. Gene told me then he appreciated the bon mots. Because he was such a considerate friend, I am confident he would say the same thing now.

AN UNKNOWN VICTORY

You name the WAR:

Two countries are created from one by the greatest military power in

the world and are monitored by the United Nations;

One country led by a ruthless dictator invades the other in spite of

the United Nations warnings not to;

The Secretary General of the United Nations declares, â€œThis is a war

against the United Nations.â€;

A United States President leads a coalition of world leaders to unite to

drive the invaders out and re-establish the status quo;

An American general was placed in charge of the United Nations

forces;

While many countries offered some help, the American military

provided more than half of a million personnel in the war;

The aggressors were driven out of and liberty was restored to the

invaded country; and

The mission for which Americans fought and died was accomplished.

If you said The Gulf War of 1990-1991, that is understandable.Â Almost all Americans supported that war and recognized that victory.Â However, I am talking about the Korean War of 1950-1953.Â It too was a great victory for American and United Nations interests and helped prevent World War III.Â We owe a huge debt to our Korean War veterans.

Two of those heroes (they just hate to be called that but, hey, itâ€™s my column and facts are facts) are Posey County natives and brothers-in-law Harold Cox and Gene McCoy.

Harold fought with the U.S. Armyâ€™s 25^th Division which suffered many casualties and bore much of the fighting in Korea.Â Harold was an infantry rifleman and was the jeep driver for his company commander.

Gene was a combat engineer with the Armyâ€™s 84^th Engineers Battalion and, also, served as a courier/mail deliverer.

Harold was on the frontlines and Gene was building wooden bridges about 1000 yards behind those lines.Â Gene says Harold had it a lot rougher than Gene.

Both suffered the 20 below zero cold, the stifling heat and humidity, the loneliness, home sickness and fear in what those not there called a â€œpolice action.â€

Harold said one of his worst memories, outside of dodging enemy mortar rounds for a solid year of combat, was the stench of the human waste the impoverished Koreans would save all winter and fertilize their rice paddies with in the spring.Â Gene, also, mentioned that nauseating smell and the mud and flooding caused by the lack of vegetation due to constant shelling.

When Gene first arrived in Korea they put his outfit on a train which stopped frequently.Â Each time it stopped the young soldiers were given a few rounds of ammunition and ordered out to guard the train from sabotage.Â Gene said this initiation to Korea was more than a little unsettling.

Harold told me that the traffic signs in the war were a bit more to the point than those back home.Â On one particularly dangerous stretch of road a sign advised:

â€œGet your ____ in gear and drive like ____!

The NK can see you.â€

Harold paid attention.

Harold and Gene came home and re-started their lives.Â Harold served as Mt. Vernonâ€™s Water Superintendent for several years in the 1980â€™s and1990â€™s.Â Gene served as a Mt. Vernon City Councilman and the Posey County Recorder.Â Gene is (in 2005) currently Posey Countyâ€™s Veterans Affairs Officer.Â They both raised families and went on publicly as if there had been no Korean War.Â However, privately what General Douglas MacArthur called â€œthe strange, mournful mutter of the battlefieldâ€ never left their consciousness.

Of course, there was a Korean War and it helped save you and me from another world war.Â It was a largely unappreciated â€œmission accomplished.â€Â Thank you Harold and Gene and all your fellow Korean War veterans.

As General MacArthur might have said, both the old song and those it honors quietly fade away:

Sun has set, shadows come,

Soldier rest, your race is run.

For more Gavel Gamut articles go to:

www.jamesmredwine.com

Trip to Bradley up next for UE Menâ€™s Basketball

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Â Aces and Braves to meet on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Â Part one of the final road trip of the regular season is up next for the University of Evansville menâ€™s basketball team as they travel to Bradley for a 1 p.m. game on Saturday at Carver Arena in Peoria.

Evansville led from wire-to-wire in an 87-70 win over Drake on Tuesday night at the Ford Center.Â Three UE players finished with 20 or more points, led by Jaylon Brown and Ryan Taylor, who notched 22 apiece.Â David Howard added a career-high 21 points as he hit all nine free throws.Â UE shot 57.9% on the night while outrebounding the Bulldogs by a final tally of 36-20.Â For the night, UE hit 17 out of 18 free throws (94.4%), its best effort of the season.

Brown, Taylor and Howard each finished with 20+ points on Tuesday; it marked the first time three Aces registered 20 or more points in the same game since Matt Webster, Kyle Anslinger and Bradley Strickland had 20 apiece on Dec. 30, 2006 against Bradley.

Tuesdayâ€™s win over Drake marked the fourth conference win in a row for the Aces.Â UE accomplished the feat twice last year and once in the 2010-11 and 2012-13 campaigns.Â Head coach Marty Simmons is looking for his first 5-game MVC win streak in his tenure as UEâ€™s head coach.Â The last 5-game streak for UE in MVC play came from January 27 through February 10 1999.

A stellar streak of play continued for David Howard as he set his career mark with 21 points in the win over Drake.Â A 64.2% free throw shooter on the season, Howard went a perfect 9-for-9 against the Bulldogs; Howard has hit 17 of his last 19 free throws over the last four games (89.5%) after starting the season shooting just 32% (8/25) in the first 24 games this season.

Bradley comes into Saturdayâ€™s meeting with a 9-19 overall mark and 4-11 in the Valley.Â The Braves have dropped nine of their last 10 games, including a 64-61 loss at UNI on Wednesday.Â Darrell Brown paces his team with 12 points per game; he also leads the team with a total of 76 assists.Â Donte Thomas sits atop the Bradley list with 6.3 rebounds per game.

In the first meeting of the season, the Braves earned a 74-63 win over UE to move the series to a 26-22 tally in their favor.Â In games in Peoria, Bradley has been dominant, going 18-5; Evansville has had the upper hand on the road as of late, winning three of the last five match-ups.

ASG Monthly Meeting February 28,2017

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The area chapter of the American Sewing guild will meet Tuesday February 28Â at McCollough Branch Library’s Community Room on Washington Avenue.

Members and guests are asked to bring a favorite sewing notion or gadgetÂ that they find helpfulÂ in the sewing process.Â Â Â We can learn from others experience.

Doors openÂ at 5:30 followed by the meeting from 6-7:45 p.m.Â Visitors are always welcome.

For more information, call 812-568-2515 or emailÂ Evansville@asg.com.

Hoosiers Qualify 20 for Big Ten Championship Finals on Friday

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. â€“Â The Indiana University womenâ€™s swimming and diving team had a successful morning at the 2017 Big Ten Womenâ€™s Swimming and Diving Championship prelims on Friday at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center in West Lafayette, Ind.

In the morning, the Hoosiers qualified for 20 finals in total â€“ nine Championship Finals, five B Finals and six C Finals. Gia Dalesandro had a great morning, qualifying for the Championship Final in both theÂ 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke.

100 Butterfly

Indiana will bring back all four swimmers for Friday nightâ€™s finals, led by Dalesandro who qualified first overall with a NCAA B cut time of 51.79. The mark is just .04 seconds off her own school record and is the third-best time in IU history. Joining Dalesandro in the Championship Final will be Christine Jensen, who qualified eighth with a NCAA B cut time of 52.98.

Oliva Barker qualified 19^thÂ overall to earn a spot in the C Final with a NCAA B cut time of 54.09, while Shelby Koontz also earned a spot in the C Final with a personal-best and NCAA B cut mark of 54.20. With her time, Koontz now ranks as the 11^th-best performer in the event in program history.

400 IM

IU also had a nice showing in the 400 IM, as the Hoosiers will bring back all four of their swimmers for the evening finals. Sam Lisy led the quartet, qualifying eighth overall to earn a spot in the Championship Final with a NCAA B cut time of 4:11.69.

In the B Final for Indiana, Bailey Pressey qualified 11^thÂ overall with a NCAA B cut time of 4:13.46, while Reagan Cook earned her 16^thÂ place qualification with a NCAA B cut mark of 4:16.41.

Shelly Drozda will swim in the C Final for IU after qualifying 18^thÂ overall with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 4:16.92. Her mark ranks her as the 13^th-best 400 IM swimmer in school history.

200 Freestyle

Indiana will bring four swimmers back for the finals of the 200 freestyle, including two in the Championship heat.

Kennedy Goss qualified second overall with a NCAA B cut time 1:43.99 that ranks as the seventh-fastest time in school history. Freshman Maria Paula Heitmann had an unbelievable prelim swim for IU, cutting nearly seven seconds off her personal best with a mark of 1:45.74 that qualified her seventh overall. Heitmannâ€™s time makes her the eighth-fastest swimmer in the event in program history.

Delaney Barnard will swim in the B Final after touching the wall with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 1:46.57 that ranks her as the 12^th-best swimmer in the event all-time at IU. Holly Spears earned a spot in the C Final with her time of 1:48.28.

Stephanie Marchuk just missed qualifying for the C Final, placing 25^thÂ overall with a time of 1:48.63. Freshman Cassie Jernberg cut almost seven seconds off her previous best time with her mark of 1:48.94 to place 32^nd. Hannah Sakaluk placed 60^thÂ overall with a personal-best time of 1:51.45.

100 Breaststroke

Defending NCAA and Big Ten champion Lilly King is the top qualifier for Friday nightâ€™s 100 breaststroke Championship Final, touching the wall with a NCAA A and Boilermaker Aquatic Center pool record time of 57.46. Kingâ€™s time is the second-fastest this season to her won mark of 57.30 earlier this season. Her mark is the fifth-fastest time in IU history.

Laura Morley will swim in the B Final after touching the wall with a personal-best and NCAA B cut time of 1:01.25. Morleyâ€™s mark ranks her as the seventh-fastest swimmer in the event at Indiana.

Mackenzie Atencio qualified 24^thÂ overall to earn a spot in the C Final with her personal-best and NCAA B cut mark of 1:02.12. Her time makes her the 10^th-best performer in IU history in the event.

Hope Hayward placed 35^thÂ with a personal-best time of 1:02.89 which ranks her 14^thÂ all-time in program history, while Taylor Truex with a mark of 1:06.32.

100 Backstroke

The Hoosiers will bring back four swimmers for the finals of the 100 backstroke on Friday night, led by Ali Rockett and Gia Dalesandro.

Both qualified for the Championship Final, with Rockett posting a NCAA B cut time of 52.67 and Dalesandro timing in with a personal-best mark of 53.24. Dalesandroâ€™s time ranks her as the 13^th-best swimmer in the event in school history.

Rachel Matsumura will swim in the B Final after touching the wall with a NCAA B cut time of 53.89, while Marie Chamberlain will be in the C Final after posting a NCAA B cut mark of 54.17.

Katherine Keller placed 42^ndÂ overall with a time of 55.47.

3-Meter Dive

Jessica Parratto was brilliant in the prelims of the 3-meter dive, earning the No. 1 seed for Friday nightâ€™s final with a NCAA qualifying score of 366.70.

After a solid start, Parratto reeled off four-straight great dives, starting with a 61.60 in the third round. The redshirt junior then followed with the best dive of the prelims, recording a 73.50. Parratto followed with scores of 66.00 and 63.00 to end the prelims.

The Hoosiers will continue at the 2017 Big Ten Championships on Friday evening with the finals of the 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke, 3-meter dive and 200 freestyle relay. The action gets underway at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center in West Lafayette at 6:30 p.m. ET.

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 â€“Â Twitter,Â FacebookÂ andÂ Instagram.

100 Butterfly

Gia Dalesandro â€“ 51.79 (NCAA B cut â€“ A Final)

Christine Jensen â€“ 52.98 (NCAA B cut â€“ A Final)

Olivia Barker â€“ 54.09 (NCAA B cut â€“ C Final)

Shelby Koontz â€“ 54.20 (Personal Best, NCAA B cut â€“ C Final)

400 IM

Sam Lisy â€“ 4:11.69 (NCAA B cut â€“ A Final)

Bailey Pressey â€“ 4:13.46 (NCAA B cut â€“ B Final)

Reagan Cook â€“ 4:16.41 (NCAA B cut â€“ B Final)

Shelly Drozda â€“ 4:16.92 (Personal Best, NCAA B cut â€“ C Final)

200 Freestyle

Kennedy Goss â€“ 1:43.99 (NCAA B cut â€“ A Final)