DEF LEPPARD ANNOUNCE STOP IN EVANSVILLE, IN AUGUST 8- WITH SPECIAL GUESTS REO SPEEDWAGON AND TESLA
Announce Extensive Summer 2016 Tour!
REO Speedwagon & Tesla Set To Join The Tour As Special Guests
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Evansville, IN – Def Leppard have just announced they will return to the road this summer for an extensive tour across North America due to overwhelming demand. The Live Nation promoted outing will storm through 55 cities across all parts of the U.S. and Canada. Joining Def Leppard on their mighty summer outing are REO Speedwagon and Tesla.
Def Leppard–Joe Elliott (vocals), Vivian Campbell (guitar), Phil Collen (guitar), Rick “Sav” Savage (bass) and Rick Allen (drums)—continues to be one of the most important forces in rock music. With 100 million records sold worldwide and two prestigious Diamond Awards to their credit, the group’s spectacular concerts, filled with powerful melodic rock anthems, continue to sell out venues worldwide. For the past thirty years the band’s epic live shows and arsenal of hits have become synonymous with their name, leading Def Leppard to be heralded as an institution in both the music and touring industry.
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USI To Play Bellarmine Quarterfinals
Eagles To Play Knights In GLVC Quarterfinals
The eighth-seeded University of Southern Indiana men’s basketball team will play top-seeded Bellarmine University at noon Friday in the quarterfinals of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament at Family Arena in St. Charles, Missouri. All-Tournament passes are $38, while adults and seniors tickets are $18 and students with a valid ID are admitted for $11 each day.
Tickets can be purchase directly through Family Arena by phone (314-534-1111) and online . Fans also can purchase tickets through MetroTix.com by phone (800-293-5949) and online.
In addition to the USI-Bellarmine quarterfinal game, the remaining quarterfinal games are scheduled to follow at 2:30 p.m. (fifth-seeded Lewis University vs. fourth-seeded University of Indianapolis), 6 p.m. (seventh-seeded Quincy University vs. second-seeded Drury University) and 8:30 p.m. (sixth-seeded Truman State University vs. third-seeded University of Wisconsin-Parkside). The men’s portion of the tournament continues Saturday with the semifinals at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., while the championship game is slated for Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
The match-up between the Screaming Eagles (19-10) and Knights (22-5) will be their second meeting in a little more than a week. USI defeated ninth-ranked Bellarmine in overtime, 89-82, last Thursday behind the double-double performance (19 points and 15 rebounds) of junior forward T.J. Tisdell (Cape Girardeau, Missouri).
USI earned the right to play Bellarmine in the quarterfinals by posting an 86-72 victory over Rockhurst University in the first round of the GLVC Tournament at the Physical Activities Center Sunday afternoon. Tisdell led USI with a season-high 22 points, while junior guard Jeril Taylor (Louisville, Kentucky) posted his fifth double-double of the year with 19 points and 14 rebounds.
Pregame Party set for Friday at 3:30 p.m.
Pep rally gives fans an opportunity to send team off in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS –In what has become a yearly tradition, the University of Evansville Athletics Department and the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations have combined to announce a Pregame Party in St. Louis as the Purple Aces men’s basketball team travels to Arch Madness this week.
Evansville enters the tournament as the #2 seed and will play the winner of Thursday’s Missouri State/Drake game on Friday at 6 p.m. The pregame party will be held in the lobby of Lumiere Place, which is in downtown St. Louis and is also the team hotel.
The event is free and will feature appetizers and a cash bar. Door prizes will be given out with the grand prize being four floor seats to an Aces home game next season. Benny’s Flooring is once again the sponsor of the event.
Running from 3:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. on Friday, the party will give fans the unique opportunity to send the team off as they depart for the game.
Those who wish to attend are asked to register at the link above. Parking at the hotel costs $10 and has easy access to Metro Link, which will take you right up to the game.  For more information, contact the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at 812-488-2586.
YESTERYEAR-Young Women’s Christian Association
As early as 1905, a dormitory opened on Division Street to provide shelter for young, single women who were flowing into Evansville to work in the city’s numerous factories, mills, and shops. Two years later, social reformer Albion Fellows Bacon helped to organize the Working Girls Association to further assist women. Its success spurred the founding of the Evansville chapter of the YWCA in 1911. By the mid-1920s, the organization’s rapid growth led to the building of a larger home on Vine Street, seen here under construction in 1925.
FOOTNOTES: We want to thank Patricia Sides, Archivist of Willard Library for contributing this picture that shall increase people’s awareness and appreciation of Evansville’s rich history. If you have any historical pictures of Vanderburgh County or Evansville please contact please contact Patricia Sides, Archivist Willard Library at 812) 425-4309, ext. 114 or e-mail her at www.willard.lib.in.us.
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BREAKING NEWS: SCOTUS Rejects Evansville SWAT Raid Appeal
BREAKING NEWS:Â SCOTUS Rejects Evansville SWAT Raid Appeal
by Dave Stafford the indianalawer.com
A 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the city of Evansville for a bungled SWAT raid will stand.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear this appeal on Monday.
Justices denied certiorari in Billy Bolin, et al. v. Louise Milan, 15-566, and in Kevin C. Isom v. Indiana, 15-533, after conferencing on the petitions Feb. 19.
Louise Milan sued Billy Bolin, the Evansville chief of police, the city and others after a SWAT team sent a phalanx of armored, flash-bang tossing officers smashing through her open, glass front door, after which no arrests were made. Officers were looking for the source of Internet police threats, but the 7th Circuit ruled in a scathing August opinion that Evansville was not shielded from an excessive force lawsuit, calling the lack of investigation and evidence before the raid of Milan’s home “a failure of responsible police practice.†After the raid on Milan’s home, a suspect a few doors down was asked to come to the police station the next day, where he was arrested.
Evansville’s petition asked justices to review whether the 7th Circuit erred in denying qualified immunity to police by finding use of flash-bang grenades unreasonable. The city argued police were executing a warrant “to prevent a potential mass murder,†and that the use of flash-bangs “was necessary for their safety.â€
This is a developing story and we shall update soon as we receive additional information.
