Evansville Courier

The American Boat Racing Association has taken a giant step toward saving Thunder on the Ohio.

The ABRA board of directors voted to acquire the physical assets of the Evansville Freedom Festival along with specified liabilities as a first step toward hosting the 31st running of Thunder next summer.

During Friday’s teleconference, the ABRA Board finalized an offer to the Freedom Festival and agreed to move forward with obtaining the necessary approvals and commitments needed to stage the race next August or September.

A giant yuletide check for $10,000 to Ritzy’s Fantasy of Lights stood in one corner, but there wasn’t a St. Nick, Rudolph or elf in sight at the Evansville Rehabilitation Center this morning.

American Water has lifted the precautionary boil advisory after samples taken from the area showed no signs of contamination.

Kentucky is on the verge of its first execution in nine years as prison officials prepare to give a lethal injection to confessed child-killer Marco Allen Chapman.

Work on the Fulton Avenue interchange project on the Lloyd Expressway will move into its next phase of construction sometime during the first week of December.

Indiana State Police in Jasper are asking that anyone with information about vandalism to a chiropractic clinic marquee sign in Loogootee, Ind., contact them at (800) 742-7475 or (if out of state) at (812) 482-1441.

The lending subsidiary of General Electric Co. says it never made a commitment to a company that wants to build an electric car manufacturing plant in Simpson County.

A western Kentucky county school board has voted to consolidate all three of its high schools into one new one.

This weekend is a good time to relax in preparation for the holidays to come – Thanksgiving is on Thursday, and after that there’s less than a month to go before Christmas.

American Water, the management company for the Evansville Water Department, has closed the northbound lane of Riverside Drive between Court Street and Third Avenue until 3 p.m. today for work.

American Water, the management company for the Evansville Water Department, has closed the northbound lane of Riverside Drive between Court Street and Third Avenue until 3 p.m. today for work.

About 20 students from the University of Evansville will be at will lead children with a series of activities at the Children’s Museum of Evansville (cMoe) this weekend.

A Federal Emergency Management Agency report released Thursday said "catastrophic" damage would result in eight states — including Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois — if a large earthquake happened along the vast New Madrid Seismic Zone.

Christian Life Center expects to provide nearly 4,000 Thanksgiving meals this year

Frigid air will blast into the region tonight, dropping temperatures to their lowest points so far this season.

Indiana State Police detectives have arrested a Jasper, Ind., man for sexual battery. It’s alleged that Glenndyl Fromme, 60, sexually battered a 23-year-old woman in October. The probe began this week and detective Rob Gardner found enough evidence to arrest Fromme at his home Thursday. Fromme is being held in the Dubois County Jail without bond. — Rich Davis

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A Terre Haute company that makes plastic film plans to lay off about 100 workers next month, citing a larger than normal seasonal drop in orders. Bemis Co. vice president Melanie Miller says customers who have seasonal business were unwilling to place their orders early, as they have in previous years. One of the company’s major products is plastic overwrap for packages of bottled water. Bemis employs about 1,000 workers at its Terre Haute plant. The layoffs will be effective Dec. 1. Miller says it’s “disappointing” that the layoffs had to occur around the holidays. She ...

WEEKEND PLANNER: There’s definitely a holiday ring in the crisp air. Which means you’ll need to bundle up if you attend either of the big downtown holiday parades this weekend. Owensboro’s parade is at 4:30 p.m. Saturday on Frederica Street. Evansville’s 20th annual Downtown Holiday Parade begins at 3 p.m. Sunday and follows the Main Street Walkway (also Locust and Second streets). Kids can meet Santa at 1 p.m. Sunday at Fourth and Main’s park. But if you’re really in a holiday mood, with gas prices dropping faster than Santa down a chimney, there’s “A Country Christmas” at the Gaylord ...

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