Olus “Tex†Justus entertained Tri-Staters for more than three decades as host of “T. J. Time,†a morning program featuring “old time†country music on Boonville’s WBNL radio station. A native of Texas, Justus made his singing debut in 1936 in Louisville. A few years later, he organized a dance band named the Texas Cowboys and settled in Owensboro. Justus joined the WGBF radio staff in Evansville in the late 1940s before he started broadcasting in Boonville four years later. Wearing his trademark cowboy hat, he appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and was inducted into the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame in 1988, three years after his death in Evansville.
St. Mary’s Hospital for Women & Children Birth Records
Jennifer and Benjamin Schmitt, Newburgh, Ind., son, Weston Lee, Feb. 4
Kristy and Josh Lancaster, Slaughters, Ky., son, Dax Martin, Feb. 4
Chrystal and Vincent Cox, Evansville, daughter, Tilley Reese, Feb. 4
Brooklynn and Luke Spaetti, Evansville, daughter, Edna Rose, Feb. 5
Stephanie and James Stewart, Newburgh, Ind., daughter, Lucille Faith, Feb. 5
Kimberly Jensen and Brayden Powers, Evansville, daughter, Alaina Ann, Feb. 6
Ashley Childers and Roy Morrow, Evansville, daughter, Londyn Grace, Feb. 7
Maggie Clardy and Clint Hoehn, New Harmony, Ind., son, Jordan Paul, Feb. 7
Brittany Abernathy and Antonio Lopez, Evansville, daughter, Lila Rosemarie, Feb. 8
Amy and Aaron Schuetter, Evansville, daughter, Nora Elizabeth, Feb. 8
Kendra and Michael Ray, Evansville, daughter, McKinley Kate, Feb. 9
Leah and Andrew DiMaggio, Evansville, son, Sebastian Joseph, Feb. 9
Kathleen and Adam Barker, Newburgh, Ind., son, Garrett Lee William, Feb. 9
Latoya Lewis and Erick Tandy, Evansville, daughter, Eriyah Ny’Jae, Feb. 10
Courtney and Jacob Hish, Ridgway, Ill., daughter, Johannah Claire, Feb. 10
Shantay and Bryan Blackman, Evansville, daughter, Camille Victoria Renee, Feb. 11
Summer Goebel, Evansville, son, Winter Willow Louis, Feb. 11
Emily and Joseph Weil, Evansville, son, Lucas Alan, Feb. 12
Timia and Matthew Wilhite, Evansville, son, Jaxon Doyle, Feb. 12
Justices impose 3-Year Suspension On Lawyer Who Took Guardianship funds
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A Warrick County attorney who was already suspended from the practice of law for failure to comply with court orders has been disciplined with an additional three-year suspension after he converted an elderly woman’s guardianship funds to himself.
As a court-appointed guardian of an incapacitated 88-year-old woman living in a Warrick County nursing home, Gene Emmons, a Booneville attorney, became a signatory on the woman’s PTSB and PNC bank accounts. The PTSB account was an attorney fiduciary account subject to overdraft reporting to the Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission.
Without authorization, Emmons wrote three checks to himself totaling $20,000 from the PTSB account, noting in the subject line that they checks were for “legal fees.†The court ordered Emmons to prepare a biennial accounting of his guardianship over the woman in 2015, which he failed to do, prompting his removal as her guardian. Emmons was then ordered to file a final accounting, which he also did not complete.
Emmons then failed to appear at a court-ordered hearing for his failure to comply with the accountings, and he did not respond to an investigation into his actions by the Disciplinary Commission. Subsequent show cause proceedings resulted in Emmons’ indefinite suspension due to his noncooperation in 2016 in Matter of Emmons, 52 N.E.3d 797 (Ind. 2016).
Emmons was found to have violated Indiana Professional Conduct Rules 1.15(a), 3.4(c), 8.1(b) and 8.4(b), (c) and (d) as well as Rule 4(A)(2) of the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission Rules Governing Attorney Trust Account Overdraft Reporting. The commission recommended that Emmons be suspended for at least three years without credit for his previous noncooperation suspension, and the Indiana Supreme Court agreed in the case of In the Matter of: Gene D. Emmons, 87S00-1604-DI-190.
In a per curiam opinion handed down Tuesday, the justices wrote that Emmons’ conversion of the guardianship funds and his attempts to conceal his actions were “among the most serious types of misconduct.†While the American Bar Association’s Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions recommend disbarment for such conduct, the court noted that the commission had found Emmons’ inexperience as an attorney and lack of prior disciplinary actions as mitigating factors. Emmons was admitted to practice in 2008.
The court agreed to the recommendation of a three-year suspension without automatic reinstatement. If Emmons chooses to petition for reinstatement after the three-year period has expired, he will have to “prove his professional rehabilitation by clear and convincing evidence.†The costs of the proceedings were also assessed against him.
Justice Steven David voted to reject the conditional agreement proposed by the Disciplinary Commission and Emmons.
Air Quality Forecast For Vanderburgh County
Air quality forecasts for Evansville and Vanderburgh County are provided as a public service. They are best estimates of predicted pollution levels that can be used as a guide so people can modify their activities and reduce their exposure to air quality conditions that may affect their health. 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). When atmospheric conditions are uncertain or favor pollution levels above the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, forecasts are made on a daily basis.
Ozone forecasts are available from mid-April through September 30th. Fine particulate (PM2.5) forecasts are available year round.
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Wednesday February 15 |
Thursday February 16 |
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* Not Available and/or Conditions Uncertain.
Air Quality Action Days
Ozone Alerts are issued by the Evansville EPA when maximum ozone readings averaged over a period of eight hours are forecasted to reach 71 parts per billion (ppb), or unhealthy for sensitive groups on the USEPA Air Quality Index scale.
Particulate Alerts are issued by the Evansville EPA when PM2.5 readings averaged over the period of midnight to midnight are forecasted to reach 35 micrograms per meter cubed (µg/m3).
Current conditions of OZONE and FINE PARTICULATE MATTER are available in near real-time on the Indiana Department of Environment Management’s website.
National and regional maps of current conditions are available through USEPA AIRNow.
USI Men’s Basketball is 2nd in first regional poll
The 14th-ranked University of Southern men’s basketball team is ranked second in the first NCAA Division II Midwest Region poll of 2016-17. This is the highest regional ranking for USI since the end of the 2006-07 season when the Screaming Eagles were the second seed in the NCAA II Midwest Regional.
The Eagles follow fourth-ranked Bellarmine University in the first poll that includes five teams from the Great Lakes Valley Conference in the region’s top 10 teams. Following USI and Bellarmine from the GLVC is the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (sixth), Quincy University (seventh) and Truman State University (eighth).
The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was represented by 24th-ranked Ferris State University (third); University of Findlay (fifth) Wayne State University (ninth); and Lake Superior State University (10th), while 13th-ranked Kentucky Wesleyan College (fourth) was the lone representative from the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.
The top eight team from the Midwest Region advance to the NCAA Division II Tournament at the end of the season. The regional is routinely hosted by the top seed in the regional.
USI is back in action tomorrow night when it begins its final homestand of the 2016-17 regular season by hosting the University of Illinois Springfield. The Eagles finish the homestand with Senior Day on Saturday when they welcome McKendree University to the Physical Activities Center.
A win this week will clinch a first round bye in the upcoming GLVC Tournament at the Ford Center, March 2, 4-5.
Eagles open 2017 campaign on the road
#23 USI visits #2 Tampa to open season
The 23rd-ranked University of Southern Indiana baseball team opens the 2017 campaign with a visit to the second-ranked University of Tampa February 17-19 in Tampa, Florida. The first pitch Friday and Saturday is set for 5 p.m. (CST), while the series finale on Sunday is 11 a.m. (CST).
The Screaming Eagles, 38-21 in 2016, follows its trip to play the Spartans with the home opening series February 24-26 with the Dunn Hospitality Invitational at the USI Baseball Field. USI opens the invitational with Wayne State University (Michigan) February 24 at 1 p.m. before concluding its part of the home weekend Saturday against Notre Dame College at 4:30 p.m.
Coverage of all of the Screaming Eagles’ action in 2017 can be found on GoUSIEagles.com.
SCREAMING EAGLES BASEBALL NOTES:
USI finished 2016 at the D-II Baseball Championships. The Screaming Eagles made their fourth appearance in the NCAA Division II Baseball Championship in 2016 and their 12th appearance overall in the NCAA II Tournament. USI finished tied for fifth nationally in 2016, going 1-2 in the championship series.
Eagles won fourth NCAA II Midwest Regional in 2016. USI has won its fourth Midwest Regional in 2016 (2007, 2010, 2014, 2016), sweeping thru with a 4-0 record.
USI won the GLVC East. The Eagles won the GLVC East Division title this spring, marking the fourth time in the last seven seasons, taking the East Division three times (2011, 2014, 2016) and the West Division once (2010). USI has gone on to win an NCAA Division II national title in 2010 and 2014.
Returning at the plate in 2016. USI junior infielder Sam Griggs is the Eagles’ top returning hitter in 2017. Griggs batted .342 with a team-high 51 RBIs and ranked second with seven homeruns. USI junior outfielder/infielder Drake McNamara follows Griggs with a .316 average and a team-high eight home runs, while knocking in 41 RBIs.
Top winners. Senior right-handers Colin Nowak and Lucas Barnett were the top two arms for the Eagles in 2016. Barnett led the team with eight victories (8-5 overall) and a team-high 79 strikeouts. Nowak was second with seven victories (7-3 overall) and is top among the returning starters with a 3.15 ERA.
Archuleta at USI. USI Head Coach Tracy Archuleta reached 500 all-time victories last year and became the Eagles’ all-time winningest coach in program history. Archuleta has a USI record of 378-192 (.663) in nine seasons and is 526-316 (.625) in 14 seasons as a head coach. He has been named the ABCA Division II Coach of the Year twice (2010 and 2014) after leading the Screaming Eagles to a pair of national championships and the ABCA Division II Midwest Region Coach of the Year after leading USI to the regional crown in 2016. Archuleta also has earned a pair of GLVC Coach of the Year awards (2011 and 2014) at USI.
USI vs. Tampa. USI is 2-4 all-time against the University of Tampa, 1-3 in the regular season. The Eagles lost the first regular season meeting in 1983 and lost a two of three in the 2015 regular season opening series. In the post-season, USI is 1-1 versus Tampa in the Division II Baseball Championship Series (loss in 2007; win in 2014).
Tampa. Tampa, which is 5-1 to start the 2017 campaign, finished last year with a 41-10 overall record, concluding the season in the NCAA Division II South Regional.
Southern Indiana Career & Technical Center StudentsÂ
Advance to State Competition
Nineteen students from the EVSC’s Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center earned the opportunity to advance to the state SkillsUSA contests April 21 and 22 after competing in the regional contests this past weekend.
In addition to advancing to the state level, Vincennes University provides scholarships to students who finish in the top three. Students placing first receive a $2,500 scholarship; those placing second receive $1,000; and those placing third receive $500.
Below is a list of regional winners:
Diesel Equipment Technology
1st place – Cole Dilbeck – Gibson Southern
3rd place – Bennett Hall – Castle
Electrical
1st place – Matthew Mays – North (Industrial Motor Controls)
1st place – John Clutter – Gibson Southern (Robotics and Automation)
1st place – Keaton Briggs – North (Robotics and Automation)
2nd place – Matthew Klein – New Tech Institute (Robotics and Automation)
2nd place – Lucas Brinkmeyer – Central (Robotics and Automation)
Automotive Refinishing Technology (Auto Body)
2nd place – Charles Ramsey – Reitz
Automotive Service
1st place – Sterling Mounts – Gibson Southern – $2,500 Vincennes College Scholarship and  $5,000 Ohio Technical College Scholarship
CNC Technician
1st place – Mason Havener – New Tech Institute
2nd place – Aaron Bergman – Castle
3rd place – Tyler Baker – Boonville
CNC Lathe
1st place – Joe Allbright – Mt. Vernon
Internetworking
1st place – Cole Robling – Castle
2nd place – Jadon Berghorst – New Tech Institute
3rd place – Tanner Mattingly – New Tech Institute
4th place – Sheldon Silen – New Tech Institute
Masonary
2nd place – Caleb Lambert – Central
Carpentry
3rd place – Lucas Sulawske – Harrison
ICYMI: Aetna CEO says Obamacare markets are in ‘death spiral’
| On Wednesday, the CEO of one of the nation’s largest insurers echoed growing concerns that President Obama’s signature healthcare law is in a death spiral.
According to a Politico report, Aetna’s CEO argued that, “more insurers will pull out of the government-run marketplaces in the coming weeks and many areas will have no insurers to provide Affordable Care Act coverage in 2018.â€Â He went on to say, “It’s not going to get any better; it’s getting worse.â€
In response, physician and Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, who has repeatedly cautioned that Obamacare is failing, said:
“We continue to see signs that Obamacare is failing almost daily,â€Â said Bucshon. “The insurance market is unstable and on the brink of collapse driving up out-of-pocket costs on families and limiting access to Americans looking to get coverage. As I’ve said before, it would be irresponsible and unethical to ignore these facts and do nothing to bring relief to patients suffering as a result of this bad law. Republicans in Congress are working judiciously with the new Administration to repeal the Obamacare disaster and replace it with reforms that lower costs and expand access to quality, affordable healthcare to everyone.† Bucshon recently introduced legislation to help stabilize the insurance markets by giving states the flexibility to meet the needs of their unique patient populations. More on his legislation can be found by clicking here.   Aetna CEO: Obamacare markets are in ‘death spiral’ Obamacare is in a “death spiral,†the influential CEO of Aetna, Mark Bertolini, declared Wednesday morning. Bertolini’s doomsday prophesy: More insurers will pull out of the government-run marketplaces in the coming weeks and many areas will have no insurers to provide Affordable Care Act coverage in 2018. “It’s not going to get any better; it’s getting worse,â€Â Bertolini said in an interview at a Wall Street Journal event. But he declined to say whether Aetna would completely pull out of Obamacare markets next year. Humana, which had already significantly limited its exchange footprint this year, announced Tuesday that it would completely pull out of the exchange markets next year after determining its customer base would still be unprofitable. That followed major pullbacks this year from other national insurers, including Aetna and UnitedHealth Group. The full article can be accessed here. Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. is a physician and Republican member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee serving his third term representing Indiana’s 8th Congressional district. The 8th District of Indiana includes all or parts of Clay, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Parke, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Sullivan, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, and Warrick counties. |
Adopt A Pet
 Josephine is an 11-month-old female American Staffordshire Terrier/Shepherd mix. Her “kennel presence†isn’t the greatest, which means she’ll shy away and maybe even growl a little when strangers pass her kennel. But it passes, and once she’s out of her kennel playing, she warms up to people quickly. Her $100 adoption fee includes her spay, microchip, vaccines, and more. Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 or adoptions@vhslifesaver.org for adoption details!
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