Indiana State Police Seeks Recruits for the 86th Recruit Academy DEADLINE EXTENDED

04/27/2024

The Indiana State Police is accepting applications for the 86^th Recruit Academy for traditional and lateral applicants. Individuals interested in beginning a rewarding career as an Indiana State Trooper must apply online at IndianaTrooper.com. This website provides a detailed synopsis of the hiring process and information on additional career opportunities with the Indiana State Police. Note: If you have already applied for the 86^th Recruit Academy you do NOT need to reapply. Please contact a recruiter about participating in the testing.

Applications must be submitted electronically by 11:59 pm (EST) on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted for the 86^thRecruit Academy.

If selected to proceed in the hiring process, applicants will complete the Written Examination and Physical Abilities Test on Friday, May 3, 2024, or Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in Plainfield, IN. Applicants must pass each phase of the hiring process to continue to the next phase. Further details and instructions will be sent by email to applicants by the end of business Wednesday, May 1, 2024.

Probationary Troopers graduating from the 86^th Recruit Academy, who successfully complete their Field Training Officer (FTO) program, receive a $5,000.00 dollar one-time cash bonus (taxable) in addition to their regular salary.

Included Benefits:

Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits during the academy and probationary year.
- GI Bill® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). More information about education benefits offered by VA is available at the official U.S. government Web site at https://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill
Military and Law Enforcement service purchase options. Service Purchase Calculator
NEW take-home patrol vehicle issued after completing the FTO period (includes off-duty use).
Uniforms and over $9,000 of NEW equipment are issued at no cost.
3 hours of on-duty physical training per week.
40 paid days of leave annually and 150 hours of New Parent Leave per qualifying event.
Health/Vision/Dental and Life Insurance options for actives and retirees.
Lifetime pension and deferred compensation w/State matching.
Endless Opportunities and Career Advancement.

Basic Eligibility Requirements and consideration factors for an Indiana State Trooper:

Must be a United States citizen.
Must be at least 21 and less than 40 years of age when appointed as a police employee. (Appointment date for traditional applicants is January 9, 2025)
Must meet a minimum vision standard (corrected or uncorrected) of 20/50 acuity in each eye and 20/50 distant binocular acuity in both eyes.
Must possess a valid driver’s license to operate an automobile.
Must be willing, if appointed, to reside and serve anywhere within the State of Indiana as designated by the Superintendent.
Must be a high school graduate as evidenced by a diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED).

Current Law Enforcement Officers:

Current Law Enforcement Officers must be full time merit law enforcement officers with a minimum of three continuous years of law enforcement service as of June 13, 2024, and if they choose, they will be assigned to the district where they currently reside.

Current Out of State Law Enforcement Officers with a minimum of three continuous years of merit full time law enforcement service as of June 13, 2024, if they choose, may be afforded their district of choice if their home state certification is determined equivalent to the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board standards.

Recruits in the lateral academy will have periodic structured performance reviews with the Training Academy staff. Performance expectations for graduation on November 21, 2024, will be continually monitored. If your performance does not meet the criteria for graduation as determined by the Superintendent, you will have the option to continue in the traditional recruit academy with a graduation date of January 9, 2025.

*Note: Lateral Police Officers must be at least 21 and less than 40 years of age when appointed as a police employee on November 21, 2024.

Recruits of the 86^th Recruit Academy are offered an excellent health care plan, including medical, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage for current and retired employees, along with their families, until reaching age 65. The Indiana State Police pension program provides a lifetime pension after 25 years of service. Additionally, the Indiana State Police Department provides comprehensive disability coverage and a life insurance program. Student loan forgiveness programs are being offered at this time through the following: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service

Interested applicants can obtain additional information about an Indiana State Trooper career by visiting IndianaTrooper.com. Applicants can also contact a recruiter at isprecruiting@isp.in.gov.

Senior Weekend on tap for UE softball

04/27/2024

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Aces welcome Missouri State for 3-game series

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Home action comes to a close for the 2024 season this weekend when the University of Evansville softball team plays host to Missouri State at Tri-State Orthopaedics Field at Cooper Stadium. The series runs Friday through Sunday and ESPN+ will have the coverage of the final two contests.

Senior Day

– Saturday’s game against the Bears will mark Senior Day as seven Purple Aces players will be recognized

– The 2024 senior class includes Megan Brenton, Alexa Davis, Hannah Hood, Mikayla Jolly, Brooke McCorkle, Jenna Nink and Marah Wood

Win #300

– UE head coach Mat Mundell picked up the 300th win of his career on April 24 as UE earned a 3-0 win at Indiana State

– Mundell won 117 games as the head coach at Illinois-Springfield with the remainder of his victories coming at Evansville

Last Time Out

– Wednesday’s game at Indiana State was a pitcher’s duel as the Aces clinched the season series with a 3-0 win

– A dropped third strike and error led to the Aces first run in the 5th before Niki Bode had a 2-run single in the 7th to add some insurance

– In the circle, Sydney Weatherford allowed just three hits in the shutout win

Locked In

– Over her last three starts, Sydney Weatherford has been lights out, allowing four earned runs on 18 hits in 22 innings of work

– That translates to a 1.27 ERA over the three contests

– She is coming off one of her top performances of the season, throwing a 3-hit shutout on Wednesday against the Sycamores

– Last Friday’s 8-inning win saw her go the entire distance allowing three runs on six hits; in Sunday’s win, she allowed two runs, just one being earned

Locked In

– Over her last three starts, Sydney Weatherford has been lights out, allowing four earned runs on 18 hits in 22 innings of work

– That translates to a 1.27 ERA over the three contests

– She is coming off one of her top performances of the season, throwing a 3-hit shutout on Wednesday against the Sycamores

– Last Friday’s 8-inning win saw her go the entire distance allowing three runs on six hits; in Sunday’s win, she allowed two runs, just one being earned

At Her Best

– Taylor Howe has gone 4-for-6 in the last two games for the Aces

– Following a 2-3 effort in the series finale against Murray State, Howe went 2-3 with two runs scored in victory at Indiana State

– Howe has recorded a hit in five of the last eight games and is batting .381 over that time with 8 hits in 21 at-bats

UE track and field heads to the Rick Erdmann Twilight meet

04/27/2024

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The Purple Aces will spend Saturday in Richmond

RICHMOND, Ky. – The University of Evansville track and field team gets back to work this Saturday at the Rick Erdmann Twilight meet hosted by Eastern Kentucky.

The Purple Aces return to the bluegrass state for the second time during the outdoor season for the Rick Erdmann Twilight. Along with competing against the Colonels, UE will compete against two other Division I programs in Kentucky and Moorehead State along with a handful of Division II and Division III programs.

Last weekend Evansville got a preview of the Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Championship course at the Gibson Invitational in Terre Haute. The Aces collected one first-place finish from freshman Nicole Prauchner (Neuhofen an der Ybbs, Austria) in the 1,500-meter race and three other top-five finishes. Kalina Urbaniak (Suchy Las, Poland) was close behind Prauchner in fourth with a time of 4:37.57. UE also had a top-five finish in the men’s 1500-meter race as freshman Rafael Rodriguez (Segovia, Spain) placed fourth with a PR of 3:52.08. Evansville’s other top-five finish came in the women’s 800-meter race for freshman Eilen Brenne (Skien, Norway) placing fourth with a time of 2:13.67.

Several Aces had PRs or high finishes in the 1500-meter race as Tommaso Losma (Lombardia, Italy) placed ninth with a time of 3:57.38 while Samuel Lea (Worchester, England) set a PR of 4:00.10. UE junior Adam Oulgout (St. Paul, Minn. / Central HS) also set a season-best in the 1500-meter with a time of 4:01.53. Oulgout also ran a season-best in the men’s 800-meter race at 1:55.75 for 12th place. Evansville’s final PRs in Terre Haute came from sophomore Jose Ocampo (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico), who set two personal records in the 100-meter dash and the 400-meter race with times of 11.08 and 51.71.

The Aces day on Saturday will begin at 12 p.m. in the field with the men and women’s hammer throws. UE’s track events will begin at 2:45 p.m. with the men’s 1500-meter race.

The Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation meeting

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The Board of School Trustees of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation will meet in

executive session at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, April 29, 2024, in the Schroeder Conference Centre located

in the EVSC Administration Building, 951 Walnut, IN 47713, Evansville, IN. The session will be

conducted according to Senate Enrolled Act 313, Section 1, I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1, as amended. The purpose

of the meeting is: initiation of litigation or litigation that is either pending or has been threatened

specifically in writing, (b)(2)(B); purchase or lease of property, (b)(2)(D); and job performance

evaluation of individual employees (b)

Oak Hill Cemetery & Arboretum Arbor Day Tree Tour to Benefit the “Adopt an Ash” Program Held Today

04/27/2024

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Oak Hill Cemetery & Arboretum will have a tour of its trees on Saturday, April 27, at 11am to celebrate Arbor Day and to benefit the Adopt-An-Ash Program. The Adopt-An-Ash program helps save public Ash trees in Evansville from being killed by the non-native, invasive pest, the Emerald Ash Borer. This is a walking tour of some of the significant trees in Oak Hill Cemetery & Arboretum, as well as interesting facts and folklore of the species on the tour. All money raised by ticket sales will benefit saving the 23 endangered Ash Trees within Oak Hill Cemetery & Arboretum.

Tickets are $15.00 for adults, $10 for students, and FREE for children under the age of 12, and can be ordered via Pay Pal at www.evansvilleparksfoundation.org/donate/ or you can pay in person with cash at the event. A sign in table will be located at the Veterans Plaza just inside the main gate of the cemetery.

This tour is the first known of its kind in the 171-year existence of Oak Hill Cemetery & Arboretum and will be hosted by the Evansville City Arborist, Shawn Dickerson.

You can learn more about how you can help in the fight against Emerald Ash Borer in Evansville by visiting evansville.adoptanash.org. For questions, please email Cemetery Superintendent Chris Cooke at ccooke@evansville.in.gov, or City Arborist, Shawn Dickerson at sdickerson@evansvil

UE Center for Innovation & Change and Circular Venture Lab Win Stage One of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition

04/27/2024

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The newly established Indiana Center for Emerging Technologies was awarded $50,000 in prize money for equitable access to entrepreneurship support

EVANSVILLE, IND. (04/23/2024) Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the Indiana Center for Emerging Technologies (ICET) as a Stage One winner for the 2024 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition (GAFC). The ICET is a collaboration between Evansville, Indiana’s Circular Venture Lab and the University of Evansville’s Center for Innovation and Change (CIC). The ICET will receive a $50,000 cash prize for its impactful and inclusive approach to nurturing a collaborative innovation ecosystem that will advance small business research and development (R&D) from ideas to the market.

By fostering connections between entrepreneurs, mentors, partners, philanthropies, corporations, investors, and other shared resources, GAFC 2024 catalyzes strategic ecosystem partnerships to build community and organizational capacity for the successful launch, growth, and scale of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)-based entrepreneurs. This opportunity will include funding for ChangeLab interns from UE and within the Evansville Promise Neighborhood, providing young people the resources needed to grow their entrepreneurial mindset.

Logan Jenkins, Executive Director of Circular Venture Lab, states, “The ICET empowers Indiana’s talent to research, evaluate, and validate the market potential of emerging technologies. The Center will catalyze a new economic development model, where technology innovations are researched and applied. Students, industry leaders, and academia will collaborate to build new ventures and create spinoffs. Early validation of the concept through GAFC 2024 significantly bolsters our chances for success regionally and across Indiana.”

Erin Lewis, the Executive Director of UE’s Center for Innovation & Change remarked, “This collaboration between the CIC and Circular Venture Lab has now received its third federal award in five months; two from the U.S. Department of Energy, and now a third from the U.S. Small Business Administration. We’re incredibly excited about that investment in our vision for inclusive access to entrepreneurial support, and look forward to sharing progress in the coming months.”

Two Stages

SBA welcomed Stage One submissions from a broad range of organizations with a collaborative vision to nurture a national ecosystem for equitable access to entrepreneurship. Winners of Stage One were selected through a multi-tier review panel process with experts in entrepreneurship, business, innovation, and strategic planning both inside and out of the federal government.

Stage Two offers an additional $50,000 to $150,000 in cash prizes for Growth Accelerator Partnerships.

To learn more about Stage Two opportunities and to access the Growth Accelerator Fund Competition Guidelines, please visit https://www.americasseedfund.us/accelerators.

About the Indiana Center for Emerging Technologies (ICET):

From inequity and climate change, to supporting national defense and community-driven economic prosperity, the real opportunity is now to build up innovation ecosystems and the ICET is eager to deepen its collaborative impact in National Defense and Economic Security. The ICET is a collaboration between Evansville, Indiana’s nonprofit 501(c)(3) Circular Venture Lab and the University of Evansville’s Center for Innovation and Change. The concept includes a centralized network and facility in Evansville to support our region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, which serves multiple purposes:

Collaboration Hub

The Indiana Center for Emerging Technologies (ICET) is a resource for industry leaders to explore collaborations between academia, government research agencies, and Indiana manufacturers.

Talent Attraction

The facility will attract new entrepreneurs and new industries, spur the creation of new startups and spinoffs, and help retain our current entrepreneurial talent.

Industry Showcase

The ICET allows our regional technological capabilities and strengths to be showcased in a physical space, serving a multitude of economic development purposes. More details and ways to contact the team can be found at the Center’s website.

The University of Evansville is a private, comprehensive university located in the southwestern region of Indiana. Established in 1854, UE is recognized across the globe for its rich tradition of innovative, academic excellence and vibrant campus community of changemakers.

Home of the Purple Aces, UE offers over 75 majors, 17 Division I sports, and a unique study abroad experience at Harlaxton, the University’s very own Victorian manor located in the countryside of England. For more information, please visit evansville.edu.

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Connor Turnbull joins UE men’s basketball program Turnbull transfers to UE from Butler

04/27/2024

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Turnbull transfers to UE from Butler

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Following two years at Butler, Connor Turnbull has officially joined the University of Evansville men’s basketball program. The 6-foot-10 forward was rated a 4-star recruit out of high school by ESPN.

Turnbull is a native of St. Paul, Missouri where he played at Fort Zumwalt North High School. Following his junior and senior seasons, he earned Class 6 All-State honors. A member of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch All-Metro Team, Turnbull averaged 23.5 points and 12.7 rebounds in his final high school campaign. He completed his high school career with the career school records for career rebounds, single-season rebounds, career blocks and single-season blocks.

His junior campaign saw him finish with 14.9 points and 7.3 caroms while helping his team advance to the Class 6 state semifinals.

“We are extremely happy to have Connor and his family join our UE family. I have known Connor and his family for 3+ years. During that time, I have learned how humble and hard-working Connor and his family are,” Ragland said. “Our staff felt the need to continue to add size, skill and shooting to our roster. Connor fits all these characteristics perfectly.”

“Another key area of focus for our staff was to get players athletic and mobile enough to defend multiple positions. Connor has always had the ability to block and alter shots on the defensive end. Coach Rose has built a strong relationship with individuals in Connor’s inner circle. Having the trust and respect for those close with Connor will help in the development process both on and off the court. We look forward to getting Connor to campus and Aces fans will love watching him play.”

As a sophomore with the Bulldogs last season, Turnbull made his presence known despite being limited to nine games. In 105 minutes of play, he posted 16 blocks including six against East Tennessee State, which was one shy of the Butler program record. In the season opener against Eastern Michigan, he recorded a season-high 13 points while converting five of his six shot attempts.

Playing in 22 games as a freshman, Turnbull ranked third on the team with 15 blocks. He was a 44% shooter from the field while finishing at 47% from long range. Against Big East opponents, he shot 70% from outside.

“I chose Evansville because I believe in what coach Ragland is building and really enjoy the staff he’s put together,” Turnbull exclaimed. “The family environment he’s created just makes it feel like home!”

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04/27/2024

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Chemo Buddies To Host 6th Annual HOPEFEST Today

04/27/2024

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Chemo Buddies To Host 6th Annual HOPEFEST This Saturday At Friedman Park, Newburgh

APRIL 27, 2024

It’s the day you realize you’re not alone. A time to reflect and a time for celebration. A day to experience pure joy and a day to recognize all you’ve been through so far. A day we put on each year just for survivors, whether they were diagnosed yesterday or 30 years ago.

It’s Hopefest and it’s THIS SATURDAY at Friedman Park from 9 AM to 1 PM. Everyone is welcome!

There’s a cruise in, vendor village, food trucks, inflatables, Survivor Wall of Hope, a Memory Garden, and more.

A 5K race at 9 am, the SURVIVORS PARADE at 10:30, and a 1 mile walk at 11. The Survivor’s Parade is the highlight of the event.

Come, reclaim your reason for HOPE.

Cancer is one of the scariest words on earth, and Hopefest brings us together as a community to celebrate survivorship and take back the HOPE that cancer may have robbed us.

WHO: Chemo Buddies and everyone affected by cancer.

WHAT: Hopefest 2024

WHEN: Saturday, September 27 from 9 am to 1 pm. (Set up is Friday afternoon at the park)

WHERE: Friedman Park, 2700 Park Drive, Newburgh IN

The event typically draws several thousand people and is sponsored by Ascension St. Vincent and Liberty Federal Credit Union. The event is rain or shine and will only be canceled for weather warnings or lightning.

More information can be found at Hopefest.net