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University of Evansville men’s basketball team travels to East Carolina

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – A berth in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament Championship game is on the line as the University of Evansville men’s basketball team travels to East Carolina for a 4 p.m. CT game on Saturday afternoon at Minges Coliseum.

Fans are reminded that a watch part will be held at Showplace Cinema East (1801 Morgan Center Drive) with the doors opening at Harbor Bay restaurant at 3 p.m. Admission is free while two theaters each holding 250 people will be open. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.

It is on to the semifinals of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament for the Purple Aces as they travel to East Carolina on Saturday. With a win, Evansville will advance to the championship game, which will be hosted by either Northern Iowa or Weber State. A hard-fought win over Canisius propelled the Aces into the semis as they took down the Golden Griffins by a final of 84-83 on Tuesday.

Colt Ryan is the all-time leading scorer in University of Evansville program history; his 3-pointer with 1:56 remaining in the first half at Canisius gave him the mark. He passed Larry Humes, who set the mark in 1966 with 2,236 points. Ryan tallied 39 in the record-breaking performance and stands at 2,267 in his illustrious career with the Aces.

Play keeps going for UE as they have won their first three games of the CIT; it is the first time UE has won more than one postseason game in a season since the 1971 championship. If UE can go 4-0 in the CIT, they will be in great company; every University of Evansville team that has won four postseason games has also won a championship. The championship season of 1971 was the last time UE has won more than one game in a postseason tournament as the Aces went a perfect 5-0 en route to their fifth NCAA College Division National Championship.

With the win at Canisius on March 26, the Purple Aces won their third in a row on the road. It marked the first time UE has done so since grabbing wins at Wichita State, Missouri State and Indiana State in the 1998-99 campaign where UE went 23-10. The last 4-game road win streak also came that season as UE topped Morehead State, Drake, Creighton and Northern Iowa. In its last three true road games, UE topped Wright State before earning its first win at Wichita since 2001; that continued with the win at Canisius.

Since notching just 50 points in the Arch Madness loss to Indiana State, Evansville has averaged 84.7 points in the three CIT games. It is just the second time UE has posted three games in a row over 80 points in the Coach Simmons era, the other time came in the 2010-11 season when the Aces notched 90 vs. Maryland Eastern Shores, 81 against Middle Tennessee State and wrapped it up with 87 versus Norfolk State. Should the Aces register 80 once again at East Carolina, it would mark the first four-game streak since the 1998-99 season (89 @ Drake, 84 @ Creighton, 96 vs. UNI, 81 vs. Wichita St.).

When the postseason begins, it gives everyone a chance to continue their season and Evansville has taken full advantage of that by winning its first three games. A lot of that success for the Aces can be attributed to the play of Colt Ryan, who has averaged 28.7 points in the three wins. Aside from his efforts, Ned Cox has posted 12.3 points and Troy Taylor has averaged 10 while posting a career-high of 16 against EKU. Taylor has upped the ante, leading UE in the CIT in assists, rebounds and steals along with shooting 57.1% after shooting 45.3% in the regular season. UE has outscored the opposition by 9 points while owning a +6.7 lead on the boards.

East Carolina enters competition on Saturday with a 21-12 overall mark and went 9-7 in Conference USA. The Pirates advanced to the semis of the CIT thanks to wins over Savannah State (66-65), Rider (75-54) and Loyola Maryland (70-58). ECU has been strong at home this season, winning 16 out of 20 games played at Williams Arena.

Three Pirates average double figures, led by Maurice Kemp’s 18.8 points per game, which led Conference USA this season; Kemp also was in the top ten in the league with 7.9 rebounds. Miguel Paul has notched 12.8 PPG to go along with 219 assists (top C-USA average of 7.06/ game); that average is tied for seventh in the nation. Akeem Richmond has notched 11.2 points while Robert Sampson is fourth in C-USA with 9.1 rebounds per outing.

Evansville and East Carolina have met on two occasions, playing a home-and-home series in the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 seasons. The meeting in Greenville was played on December 12, 1998 as the Pirates came away with an 82-79 win; UE led 47-38 at the half, but ECU overcame the deficit to take the win; Craig Snow was UE’s leading scorer with 18 points as the Aces hit 32 out of 62 shots. At Roberts Stadium on December 11, 1999, UE got its revenge, hanging on for a 68-63 victory as Snow was the star once again, notching 22 points on a 9-of-21 shooting performance.

Bucshon Denounces Rep. Young’s Remarks

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(Washington, DC) –Representative Larry Bucshon released the following statement regarding the remarks made by Representative Don Young (AK) in a radio interview on Thursday.

Representative Bucshon (IN-08):

“Representative Young’s remarks were offensive, indefensible, and have no place in public discourse,” said Rep. Bucshon. “There is no excuse for such derogatory language. I call on Representative Young to apologize immediately.”

Attorney General’s statement on Federal Court rulings on immigration law‏

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IS IT TRUE March 29, 2013

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IS IT TRUE March 29, 2013

IS IT TRUE the City County Observer would like to wish our readers of the Christian faith a Happy Easter and our readers of Jewish faith a great Passover?…the moral codes which are good ways to live among our fellow human beings have their foundations among people of faith?…this will not only be a good weekend for watching basketball it will be a good weekend for self reflection?…we hope all of our readers regardless of their personal choices with respect to faith will be a little bit better as people come Monday?

IS IT TRUE there is no joy across the Hoosier state this morning as the Indiana University Hoosiers ran up against a buzz saw Big East defense last night in the East Regional in Washington DC?…the Syracuse Orange came out with a pressure 2-3 zone that shut down the IU offense barely allowing 50 points?…the Orange defense looked so much like Wisconsin that viewers wearing cream and crimson were concerned right from the start?…the Syracuse win set up an all Big East regional final for Saturday?…this was the same Syracuse that was humbled by Louisville in the Big East championship by 17 points after outscoring the Orange by 30 points in the second half?…the Cardinals put 56 points on this Syracuse defense in one half of basketball?…we should not be too surprised to find a Louisville vs. Syracuse rematch if the Orange continue to play like they did last night?…in other basketball news the Wichita State Shockers that lost two times to the UE Aces this year have advanced to the Elite Eight and can move on to the Final Four with a victory over Ohio State that pulled their neck out of a noose with a last second three point shot for the second time this week?

IS IT TRUE that the Mole Nation still reports that the cemeteries managed by the City of Evansville are still in shabby condition?…the City may not have enough money to hire people to mow regularly or set up overturned tombstones but they have plenty of money to advertise their graveyard services in local mainstream media?…in a short two months it will be Memorial Day?…we hope but know better than to have expectations that the Evansville public cemeteries will be respectfully maintained as they have been paid to be through their perpetual care agreement?

IS IT TRUE the Indiana Senate is on the warpath against that wacky weed formally known as marijuana?…sometimes you just have to wonder if our elected officials smoke the wacky weed before deciding what threats to life and limb they choose to protect us from?…when other parts of the country are finally decriminalizing marijuana the Neanderthals of Indiana are wanting to take us back to the stupidity of the 50’s when shows like “reefer madness” were made by the federal government to spread false propaganda about marijuana?…if Indiana is going to treat casual marijuana use as a capital crime then Hoosiers had better be ready to pony up and pay for lots of new jails to house people who are more of a threat to a bag of Cheetohs that they will ever be to society?…sometimes it seems like Indiana is working hard to become like Alabama was in the 1950’s?…if our high brow Senators want to attack a drug that is doing lots of damage they need to spend their time on the still growing meth problem?…meth is the real problem in Indiana and weed is not really much of a threat to society anywhere?

Board of Public Safety Minutes

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VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday, March 27, 2013.

Rachel Tuley Theft-Class D Felony
Driving While Suspended-Class A Misdemeanor

William Davis Theft-Class D Felony

Hamiles Hawkins Possession of a Schedule IV Controlled Substance-Class D Felony
Maintaining a Common Nuisance-Class D Felony
Possession of Marijuana-Class A Misdemeanor
Possession of Paraphernalia-Class A Misdemeanor

Jermaine Johnson Strangulation-Class D Felony
Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury-Class A Misdemeanor

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Regene Newman at 812.435.5156 or via e-mail at rinewman@vanderburghgov.org

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

Trash Recycling Pickup Delayed

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An Informational picket by union employees of Allied Waste/Republic Services has caused a one-day delay in trash and recycling pickup. Trash and recycling pickup will resume Friday for Thursday service and Saturday for Friday service.

Good Things that have happened at the Indiana House of Representatives here in Indianapolis.

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GailINDIANAPOLIS – This week, let’s talk about some of the good things that have happened at the Indiana House of Representatives here in Indianapolis.

Too often, it has been difficult to find anything positive from this session. We continue to ignore the needs of our middle class. We have done nothing to help them find jobs. We haven’t helped shore up our local public schools. We’re about to spend more time than we should on divisive social issues.

But there have been some highlights here and there. Bad bills have been defeated or pulled from the calendar. We have tried to point out some of the mistakes in what the majority is trying to do, and sometimes they have listened.

And recent days have seen passage of two initiatives that have long been advocated by House Democrats.

For more than a year now, we have demanded greater accountability from the state’s Department of Child Services (DCS), which has been shown to be tragically bad in following through on its mission to protect abused and neglected children. To put it bluntly, too many kids have been dying and DCS has not demonstrated that it can work quickly to protect them.

After a summer of study and an unprecedented show of bipartisan cooperation, we now are considering a series of reforms to make DCS better. One of those reforms—contained in Senate Bill 125—passed out of the Indiana House a few days ago.

This bill calls for a more immediate review of reports of child fatalities, with committees of local officials taking the lead on review to recommend to the statewide review committee what can be done to better protect children. It calls for more legislative oversight of DCS to ensure improved responses to reports of children in trouble. Just as importantly, we begin the process of taking a long-range view through a Commission on Children in identifying the core problems that lead to abuse and neglect of children, and working to find solutions that can head off these problems before they start. Prevention is the goal.

Our second success comes in demanding more accountability from the state in job creation.

Recent years have seen a familiar pattern from administrations: loud talk about thousands of jobs coming to Indiana, to be followed by silence when it turns out the claims don’t turn out to be so truthful. In many instances, millions of dollars of taxpayer incentives have been used to attract companies, only to get little or nothing in return.

Senate Bill 162 injects a little truth in our economic development efforts.

It requires the state to tell us the actual numbers of jobs that have been created in return for taxpayer help. It makes sure that incentives are being used to create jobs. Finally, it calls for an independent review of our state’s job creation efforts.

These are all good things. It’s your tax dollars being used to pay for these incentives, and it’s high time we find out what we’re getting for the commitment we make.

As good as Senate Bill 162 is, it could have been even better if the majority had accepted our amendments to provide the same sort of accountability from the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), another state agency that has lost some credibility in the public’s eye for questionable dealings in the recent past that involve billions of state and federal tax dollars.

All we asked for was that the Indiana attorney general review all road contracts from the past four years and recommend ways INDOT can conduct its contracting transparently. We requested that INDOT make all its land dealings public. Our ultimate goal was to get rid of the risk of fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement and misconduct in the way INDOT does business.

These good government proposals were rejected by the House majority. I hope to see them revived before the end of this session.

We have a month to go before our April 29 deadline for this session. We have time to do more. As you have just seen, we can do more. I remain optimistic we will do more.

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As always, please contact me if you have any questions, comments or concerns related to our state government. Here is how you can stay in touch: call my office toll-free at 1-800-382-9842; write to me in care of the Indiana House of Representatives, 200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204; or email me at h77@iga.in.gov.

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State Representative Gail Riecken
Indiana House District 77

Updated Information on Police Action Shooting – EPD Officers Identified

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Updated Information on Police Action Shooting – EPD Officers Identified

The Evansville Police Officers involved in the police action shooting on Monday evening, March 25th in Posey County are identified as:

• Officer Dave Burris, 45, and a 22 year veteran of the Evansville Police Department
• Officer Aaron Bourland, 32, and a 6 year veteran of the Evansville Police Department

The investigation by the Indiana State Police is continuing.

Indiana State Police and US Marshal’s Service Track Down Two Wanted for Manufacturing Meth

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user29376-1364474375-media2_7c808b_192_240_PrsMe_user29376-1364474373-media1_5f676a_192_240_PrsMe_Gibson County – Wednesday afternoon, March 27, Indiana State Police and the US Marshal’s Service were actively searching for George Smith, 31, and Ashley Holeman, 22, both from Princeton. Felony warrants had been issued for both of them for manufacturing meth and several other drug offenses in Gibson County. At approximately 2:15 p.m., officers received information they were staying at a residence located at 721 South Hart Street in Princeton. When officers arrived they were greeted at the door by the homeowner. Master Trooper Kevin Waters called for Smith and Holeman to come to the door or he would send his K-9, Andy, inside the residence. Within seconds, Smith and Holeman walked out from a bedroom and were taken into custody without incident. When officers searched Smith they found a black pouch that contained a small amount of marijuana and a corner baggie containing meth. While inside the residence troopers detected an odor of marijuana. Troopers searched the residence and found drug paraphernalia and a small amount of marijuana under a couch cushion. The homeowner, Jacquelyn McInnis, 33, was cited for possession of marijuana and paraphernalia. Smith and Holeman were arrested and taken to the Gibson County Jail where they are currently being held on bond.

ARRESTED AND CHARGES:
• George Smith, 31, 1121 SE Seminary Street, Princeton, IN
• Ashley Holeman, 22, 3211 West Birch Street, Apt. 78, Princeton, IN
1. Manufacturing Meth, Class B Felony (Warrant)
2. Possession of Meth, Class D Felony (Warrant)
3. Possession of Precursors, Class D Felony (Warrant)
4. Possession of Marijuana, Class A Misdemeanor (Warrant)

New Charges for Smith:
1. Possession of Meth, Class D Felony
2. Possession of Marijuana, Class A Misdemeanor
3. Possession of Paraphernalia, Class A Misdemeanor

New Charges for Holeman:
1. Possession of Marijuana, Class A Misdemeanor
2. Possession of Paraphernalia, Class A Misdemeanor

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All criminal defendants are to be presumed innocent until, and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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