High court traveling to Evansville Monday
The Indiana Supreme Court will travel south Monday to hear oral arguments in Vanderburgh County in a case involving a student’s alleged bomb threat at an Indianapolis school.
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City attorney who falsified email suspended for 180 days
An Indianapolis city attorney who gave inaccurate information to a news reporter then tried to destroy evidence of his misconduct has been suspended from the practice of law in Indiana for 180 days.
Indiana woman sentenced to 45 years in boyfriend’s killing
An Evansville woman has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting her boyfriend.
Indiana Supreme Court to hold argument in Evansville next month
The Indiana Supreme Court will travel to the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville for an oral argument next month, the court announced Wednesday.
Evansville man reaches plea deal in arson, bomb case
An Evansville man accused of setting a fire at his apartment and leaving a bomb near a restaurant has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to charges in the case.
Reversal: Women may sue Evansville, Fort Wayne over police sex assaults
Two women who were sexually assaulted in separate cases by on-duty police in Evansville and Fort Wayne prevailed on appeal in their civil lawsuits against the cities Friday after trial courts had ruled in favor of the municipalities.
Evansville man killed by police was having mental episode
A southern Indiana coroner says a man slain by an officer he was threatening with a baseball bat was in the midst of a schizophrenic episode.
Video shows man swinging bat at officer outside courthouse
Police released video Wednesday showing a man swinging a baseball bat at a police officer before being fatally shot outside a federal courthouse in southern Indiana.
Police: Stun gun didn’t stop man smashing courthouse doors
Police in Indiana say an officer tried using a stun gun on a man who was smashing the windows of a federal courthouse before they fatally shot him.
Officers fatally shoot man outside Indiana courthouse
A bat-wielding man was fatally shot Tuesday by officers in a confrontation outside a federal courthouse in Indiana, a day after he was escorted from the same building, police said.
Bamberger, SKO merger complete
The merger between Evansville-based Bamberger Foreman Oswald & Hahn LLP and Kentucky-based Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC was completed Tuesday, one month ahead of the expected closure date.
Woman pleads guilty to cruelty but gets 21 dogs back
A judge ruled 21 dogs can be returned to an Evansville woman who pleaded guilty to animal cruelty, months after authorities removed dozens from her property in Vanderburgh County.
Bamberger merger is Indiana’s first in 2017
In the first merger involving an Indiana firm in 2017, Evansville-based Bamberger Foreman Oswald & Hahn LLP will provide a stronger foothold in the Hoosier state to a Kentucky regional law practice and, in return, will gain a deeper bench of expertise to serve its clients.
Bamberger merger gives Kentucky firm stronger presence in Indiana
Since it was founded in 1959, the law firm of Bamberger Foreman Oswald & Hahn LLP has always had an office in the Hulman Building on Fourth Street in Evansville, but by the end of the summer, the mainstay in the local legal community will have a new name and a new location.
Evansville’s Bamberger to merge with Kentucky-based firm
The two law firms will join forces Sept. 1 and have a total of 144 attorneys with offices in Louisville, Lexington and Frankfort, Kentucky, as well as Indianapolis and Evansville, Indiana, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
COA again rejects Evansville’s gun-in-park suit appeal
A man who sued the city of Evansville after he was forced to leave a park after police spotted him carrying a firearm may proceed with a lawsuit seeking damages and treble attorney fees under a statute that bars municipalities from regulating firearms.
Evansville newspaper can’t claim tax deduction for out-of-date printing press
A southern Indiana newspaper company cannot claim an “abnormal obsolescence” tax deduction for its purchase of a now-outdated printing press after a special tax court judge found the media company did not establish a prima facie case.
Justices consider ‘reasonable’ standard in flash bang search case
As criticism across the country continues to grow against the use of flash bang devices, a highly controversial police diversionary tool, the justices of the Indiana Supreme Court must decide whether the use of such a tool in Evansville constituted an unreasonable assault on the home.
Ex-Evansville police officer convicted of murder appeals to US Supreme Court
A former Evansville police officer serving an 80-year sentence for murder and arson has asked the Supreme Court of the United States to overturn his conviction and order a new trial.
Attorney’s license reinstated decade after meth addiction
When Evansville attorney Teresa Perry McKeethen passed the Indiana Bar Exam and began practicing law in 2000, she thought she was launching herself on the road to a successful legal career.