When: 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Where: Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve

Wildlife specialists will demonstrate the latest methods, tools, and techniques for safely and effectively hunting and harvesting nature’s bounty. Bring the family to wander around to sample demonstrations on various topics to include:

Indiana Falconer Joe Katterhenry – modern falconry tools and live bird, flying demo at 2:00 p.m.

IDNR Conservation Officer John Pace – wildlife management and conservation,

Gander Mountain – game call use & demonstrations

Strictly Shooting – archery equipment & techniques

Steve Taylor, Indiana Master Naturalist – basic animal tracking & identification

Live animal encounters: raptors – nature’s hunters

Carnivore Crossroads tracking game

Display of game species & biofacts

Display of Indiana extinct or endangered animal species

Cost:

Free for WNS members, $2/person for non-members

Source: wesselmannaturesociety.org

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Southern Indiana men’s basketball team used a strong second half to climb out of a first half hole and defeat Saint Joseph’s College, 90-81, Thursday evening at the Physical Activities Center. USI rises to 11-2 overall and 4-1 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, while Saint Joseph’s goes to 4-8 overall, 2-3 GLVC.

The Screaming Eagles started slow offensively and defensively in the first half. USI shot only 20 percent through the first six minutes of game (3-15) and allowed Saint Joseph’s to hit nine-of-15 three-point field goals during the first 20 minutes. The Pumas built a lead of nine points, 19-10, before the Eagles clamped down on the defensive end of the floor.

After finding itself down nine points, USI sophomore forward Austin Davis (Freeport, Illinois) ignited an 11-2 Eagles’ run to tie the game, 21-21, with 9:45 left. Saint Joseph’s would respond and re-extended its lead to as many as eight points, 43-35, with 2:07 left in the half.

The Eagles made a 6-1 push before halftime when senior guard Kenyon Smith (Chicago, Illinois) hit a three-point field goal and senior guard Melvyn Little (Louisville, Kentucky) converted a three-point play to narrow the deficit to 44-41 at the intermission.

Senior center Keith DeWitt (High Point, North Carolina) ignited the Eagles’ second half comeback with a dunk to start the final 20 minutes and pulled USI to within one point, 44-43. The senior would give the Eagles their first lead of the game, 45-44, with 19:20 left on a lay-up.

Saint Joseph’s would regain the lead, 46-45, before USI used a 10-2 run to post a seven-point advantage, 55-48. The Pumas would claw their way back into the lead with an 8-0 run, 56-55, before USI took the lead for good, 57-56, on a bucket by junior forward Aaron Nelson (Chicago Heights, Illinois) with 13:54 left.

The Eagles methodically extended the lead to eight points, 69-61, with 10 minutes remaining and would never lead by fewer than five points the rest of the way. USI increased the margin to double-digits three times in the final minutes, including its largest lead of the game, 90-78, with five seconds to play. The Pumas finished the scoring at 90-81 when they were granted a three-point field goal on a goaltending call with three ticks left on the clock.

Second half defense was key to the Eagles’ victory as they forced nine turnovers and held the Pumas to just 34.2 percent from the field (13-38). USI also dominated the glass in the game, outrebounding Saint Joseph’s 53-38.

Nelson paced the Eagles, individually, with his third double-double of the season on 15 points and 11 rebounds. He scored 11 of his 15 points during USI’s second half comeback.

Davis followed Nelson in the scoring column with a season-high 14 points, including four first half three-point field goals. Smith and Little added 11 points each, while DeWitt rounded out the double-figure scorers with 10 points. DeWitt also grabbed seven rebounds.

USI concludes its short two-game homestand at 3:15 p.m. Saturday when it hosts the fifth-ranked University of Indianapolis. The Greyhounds lost for the first time this season and dropped to 14-1 overall, 4-1 in the GLVC, after losing at fourth-ranked Kentucky Wesleyan College, 79-69, tonight.

The Eagles hit the road to Owensboro Monday at 7:30 p.m. to play KWC and begin a three-game road swing.

Source: GoUSIEagles.com

Forget about a fast ride to Greece. Never mind France. The actual road that President Obama’s taking the country down at breakneck speed is closer to home. It’s a road straight to a city on the brink of insolvency. It’s a road right to a city collapsing under unsustainable debt. It’s a one way road to a place completely averse to growth and job creation.

Over the fiscal cliff or not, for America the destination’s Detroit – population 700,000 and shrinking – the city that has faithfully practiced the very same high taxing and big bureaucratic policies that the president is on the verge of bringing national without fail for over half a century. And let there be no mistake about it, from its crumbling financial house on down to its stunning refusal to reverse course, Detroit is Obama’s America all inside of 139 square miles. It’s also the ultimate coming attraction as to just exactly where the country’s careening to with Obama firmly at the wheel for another term as your president.

Under the thumb of Democratic Party rule for over 50 years, Detroit – once revered worldwide for its industrial prowess and abundant middle class – is the scene of one of the progressive agenda’s greatest crimes. Plagued for decades by epidemic poverty, joblessness, pervasive blight, and political dysfunction, Detroit’s cataclysmic fall from being a major urban American city once home to nearly two million and positioned to rival Chicago into one whose political ruling class cannot manage to budget for functioning street lights to keep those who’ve yet to flee out of the dark when night falls is in its cold hard numbers.

Broke and facing the real prospect of having to enter into Chapter 9 bankruptcy, Detroit’s painful decent into the abyss goes well beyond a potential over $50 million budgetary shortfall come June 1st. Strangled by public sector unions and what its beleaguered mayor Dave Bing just a few short weeks ago called a “sense of entitlement,” Detroit’s long term debt is assessed by some analysts to be approaching $15 billion and rising. To make matters worse, municipal bonds – the sole vehicle keeping Detroit afloat – were recently downgraded below junk status.

What’s Detroit’s – particularly its nine member elected city council members – preferred antidote to its perpetual negative cash flow and crushing high debt choking off any chance at lifting itself out from under? Astonishingly, nothing short of unabashedly continuing on with the same big government prescription that President Obama is about to dispense onto the entire country. The Detroit City Council model – the one about to be emulated nationally – of big taxes, big fees, big spending, big bureaucratic red tape, and big plans of a turnaround not rooted in reality that Obama is hell bent on unleashing onto America has never failed to yield tangible results.

Shamefully, tangible results in Detroit have come in the form of unrelenting human suffering courtesy of chronically high unemployment that Bing has himself estimated at 50 percent in certain swaths of the city and a poverty rate that that continues to ravage no less than 35 percent of Detroit’s remaining inhabitants.

But above all else, Detroit’s most damning statistic is undoubtedly its most tragic. Nearly 58 percent of Detroit’s children live in poverty with hardly any chance at moving – as Obama would say – “forward.”

Elections always come with consequences. Elections always bring about changes.

It goes without saying that millions of voters may have truly wanted to get on with fundamentally changing America by re-electing President Obama. Unbeknownst to them, all they’re really going to be getting during the next four years is a whole lot of Detroit. Do enjoy the ride.

Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday, January 15, 2013.

David Arndell Theft – Class D Felony

Jeremy Bergwitz Theft – Class D Felony (Two Counts)

Pierre Edwards Strangulation – Class D Felony
Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury – Class A Misdemeanor

Chantel Elzer Dealing in Marijuana – Class D Felony
Possession of Marijuana – Class D Felony
Neglect of a Dependent – Class D Felony (Two Counts)
Driving While Suspended – Class A Misdemeanor

Joseph Gardner III Dealing in Schedule II Controlled Substance – Class B Felony

Libby Goedde Operating a Vehicle with an ACE of .15 or More with a Passenger less than
18 Years of Age – Class D Felony
Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated Endangering a Person with a Passenger
Less than 18 Years of Age – Class D Felony
Neglect of a Dependent – Class D Felony (Two Counts)

Robert Greene Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated – Class C Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony)
Driving While Suspended – Class A Misdemeanor

Damian Hall Operating a Vehicle with an ACE of .15 or More – Class A Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a D Felony)
Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated – Class C Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony)
Failure to Stop after Accident Resulting in Non-Vehicle Damage – Class B
Misdemeanor

Jason Peak Dealing in Methamphetamine – Class A Felony
False Informing – Class B Misdemeanor

Justa Rider Attempted Battery by Means of a Deadly Weapon – Class C Felony
Resisting Law Enforcement – Class A Misdemeanor
Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury – Class A Misdemeanor
Public Intoxication – Class B Misdemeanor

Patrick Spradley Residential Entry – Class D Felony
Criminal Mischief – Class D Felony
Intimidation – Class D Felony
Harassment – Class B Misdemeanor
Disorderly Conduct – Class B Misdemeanor

Elliott Tokarski Dealing in Methamphetamine – Class A Felony

Trent Thompson Attempted Burglary – Class B Felony (Two Counts)

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.
SENTENCE CHART

Class Range
Murder 45-65 Years
Class A Felony 20-50 Years
Class B Felony 6-20 Years
Class C Felony 2-8 Years
Class D Felony ½ – 3 Years
Class A Misdemeanor 0-1 Year
Class B Misdemeanor 0-180 Days
Class C Misdemeanor 0-60 Days