Local News

TELL CITY - Hoosiers for Hillary will have an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. today at Twilight Towers in Tell City. The group will present ways for Hillary Clinton supporters to encourage citizens to vote, set up phone banks and more. For more information call Emma Lieberth at (330) 760-1142 or visit www.hillaryclinton.com/hq/indiana.

LEOPOLD - Perry Central musicians earned top ratings from all three of their judges in Indiana State School Music Association concert-band competition April 25 at F.J Reitz High School, Evansville.

"They played really well," Music Director Rob Cason said Tuesday. "All three judges gave them gold."

The students' performances included "Peacemaker," a Karl King march; "Balladair" by Frank Erickson and David Shaffer's "Last Ride of the Pony Express."

"They were good pieces for us," Cason said. "They were challenging but not unbelievably taxing, technically speaking."

TROY - Troy resident Judy Brothers' brother knew "as soon as the news came on," he'd get a phone call from her.

So Rodger Ungerecht, 52, called her first, to let her know he'd survived the tornadoes that ripped through Suffolk, Va., where he now lives, Brothers explained Tuesday.

"He called and said it came within three miles of him," she said. His daughter, Jessica, 25, called a short time later to say she, too, was OK. Her margin of safety was only a mile-and-a-half.

CANNELTON - A man who allegedly grabbed a wad of cash from a Cannelton convenience store office was quickly nabbed early Monday after a city officer found him in Tell City.

William Bacon, 26, of 11218 S. 18th Ave., Apartment 301, Tacoma, Wash., faces charges of theft and burglary. He was taken to Perry County Jail and held on $5,500 bail.