Today's News

TELL CITY - The Tell City Marching Marksmen placed third among six bands competing at F.J. Reitz High School in Evansville Saturday, demonstrating "a definite improvement, score-wise" from the previous week's performance, their music director said.

"The overall reaction I have," Barry Reasoner said Wednesday, "is the students are starting to get more confident with their performance of a really difficult show."

PERRY COUNTY - Southern Indiana Power had approximately 500 members without power Wednesday morning. The windstorm that blasted through the area Sunday initially left close to 4,000 members without power.

Of the 500 members who have not had power restored, 200 are individual outages that will require more time for restoration, the utility said.

CANNELTON - Cannelton Police Chief Kenny Kellems said Monday evening a kidnapping that allegedly occurred Friday afternoon never happened.

The 14-year-old girl who claimed to have been abducted while walking in the area of Fourth and Washington streets at approximately 4:30 p.m. Friday lied to avoid getting in trouble, Kellems said as he and others entered a county-commissioners meeting Monday.

Perry Central's 2009 fiscal plan wins approval

LEOPOLD - Even though classes were canceled early this week because of Sunday's storm, the Perry Central School Board met Monday evening to adopt the district's 2009 budget and passed several resolutions.

Members adopted a general budget of $8.2 million for 2009, along with money for capital projects, transportation and bus replacement. Resolutions included plans for bus replacements and capital projects.