JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Intravenous drug users taking part in a southern Indiana county's needle exchange program returned over 90% of the syringes the program distributed last month, a return...

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says no foul play is suspected in the death of a 17-year-old male whose body was recovered from the Ohio River.

CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The Army Corp of Engineers says crews are making progress recovering two barges that were involved in a December accident along the Ohio River.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana police officer has been released from a hospital after being struck by a car.

Jeffersonville Police Sgt. Isaac Parker says the officer is now...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a man died from injuries he suffered in a workplace accident at a southern Indiana industrial plant.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A purse containing a prom invitation, photos and other items from 1950s America will be returned to its now 82-year-old owner after workers found it while demolishing part of an Indiana high school.

Martha Everett lost the black stitched purse more than six decades ago. Workers found it in January behind science classroom cabinets in the old Jeffersonville High School, where Everett was a senior in 1955.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's three major shipping ports handled a record amount of cargo last year as a big jump in coal shipments helped them see 25 percent growth from 2017.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A group that's spearheading a planned 400-acre park along southern Indiana's Ohio River shoreline hopes to unveil preliminary designs for the project this fall.

The nonprofit River Heritage Conservancy says OLIN, a Philadelphia-based landscape architecture firm, should deliver schematic drawings of the park by mid-September.

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JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana man has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of child molestation and faces up to 120 years in prison.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a 73-year-old man was fatally struck by a car while trying to cross an interstate in southern Indiana to help his daughter whose vehicle had run out of gas.

Indiana State Police say troopers were stopped along northbound Interstate 65 in Clark County about 4 a.m. Friday, including two waiting for a vehicle to be towed and one nearby helping the stranded motorist, who had contacted her father.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Attorneys for an Indiana man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and eating parts of her body plan to argue he was insane at the time.

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JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A man has been charged with murder and armed robbery in the October slaying of a businessman in southern Indiana.

Thirty-five-year-old Antonio J. McRae was arrested last month in connection with 49-year-old Praful Patel's fatal shooting.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana prosecutor says he plans to charge a Jeffersonville man with murder and armed robbery in a businessman's October slaying.

Thirty-five-year-old Antonio J. McRae was arrested Saturday in connection with 49-year-old Praful Patel's fatal shooting.

A judge ordered McRae held without bond Monday until his Thursday initial hearing in the killing.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Relatives of a popular southern Indiana businessman who was fatally shot during a robbery are hoping a $10,000 reward will lead to an arrest in his slaying.

Forty-nine-year-old Praful Patel was killed Oct. 11 while working at the Stop N Go convenience store he and his wife owned in Jeffersonville.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Two southern Indiana jails that are facing surges in their female inmate populations from the opioid abuse crisis have implemented special classes and programs in response to the jails' shifting needs.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and eating parts of her body has been found competent to stand trial.

A Clark County judge ruled Thursday that 37-year-old Joseph Oberhansley is competent after prosecutors and the Jeffersonville man's attorneys filed an agreement saying a competency hearing scheduled for Friday wasn't needed.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana city is moving ahead with a $30 million project to bring new restaurants, a hotel and office park to the downtown.

The Jeffersonville Planning Commission unanimously approved plans last week for the Jeffersonville Gateway on 10 acres of vacant land. The proposal now heads to the city council.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Police have identified a man whose body was found at a southern Indiana wastewater treatment plant.

Police say the body found inside a Jeffersonville wastewater treatment plant Wednesday was that of 42-year-old William E. Herald.

The Jeffersonville Police Department says an autopsy conducted Thursday determined there was no evidence of foul play in his death.

Plant employees discovered Herald's body inside a wastewater oxidation ditch Wednesday morning.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Police say the body of a man had been found in an oxidation ditch at a southern Indiana wastewater treatment plant.

Jeffersonville police Sgt. Isaac Parker says employees at the city treatment plant found the body Wednesday morning.

Jeffersonville city officials say all of their employees have been accounted for.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and eating parts of her body will undergo more mental evaluations to determine whether he's competent to face trial.

Defense attorneys for Joseph Oberhansley say he remains suspicious and paranoid despite a Logansport State Hospital psychiatrist telling the Clark County judge in late July that his competency has been restored since he was committed there last year.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A psychiatrist says an Indiana man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and eating parts of her body is mentally competent for trial, but his attorneys want to talk to him first.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A judge will allow a southern Indiana man to use an insanity defense when he goes on trial for shooting a state trooper in the head during a traffic stop.

Clark Circuit Judge Andrew Adams granted the request for Oscar Kays on Monday after a mental health provider indicated the Jeffersonville man is showing early signs of dementia and should be further evaluated.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A police department in southern Indiana has stopped participating in A&E Network's real-time police show "Live PD" after a year.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The southern Indiana city where Papa John's founder John Schnatter began his pizza business has removed his name from a historic gym after he resigned from the company's board for using a racial slur.

CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The final link of an Ohio River biking and hiking trail that will connect three southern Indiana communities is on pace for completion this year.

The town of Clarksville is its second year of work on the 1.3-mile Lewis and Clark Trail, which will complete the 7-mile Ohio River Greenway.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana development group has donated 105 acres for a new park in an Ohio River city.

The River Ridge Development Authority donated the land to the city of Jeffersonville. The land, valued at about $1.4 million, will be used for the planned 114-acre Chapel Lake Park.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Health officials in southern Indiana are working to increase the availability of vaccinations following a hepatitis A outbreak.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The attorney for a southern Indiana man charged with molesting 19 children is seeking an examination to determine whether her client is mentally ill.

A Clark County judge is expected to make a decision next Wednesday on the request by Jennifer Culotta, who represents 18-year-old Michael Begin.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials have released the name of a man who was fatally shot by police in Kentucky.

The Jefferson County Coroner's Office said in a statement on Wednesday that 21-year-old Demonjhea Jordan of Jeffersonville, Indiana, died Tuesday from gunshot wounds at University of Louisville Hospital.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Workers at a southern Indiana barge and towboat manufacturer are entering their final day on the job as the Ohio River shipyard closes its doors.

Monday was the last day of ship building operations at Jeffboat's Jeffersonville shipyard just north of Louisville, Kentucky.

Parent company American Commercial Lines announced the closure plans in March for the shipyard that traces its roots back more than 180 years.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A debt collection agency plans to open a southern Indiana call center that company officials say will eventually employ more than 600 workers.

Toledo, Ohio-based United Collection Bureau Inc. announced Tuesday that it will spend $2.4 million to lease, renovate and equip a 55,000-square-foot building at Jeffersonville's River Ridge Commerce Center.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana mayor says the impending closure of a longtime barge and towboat manufacturer could open up riverfront property to new development in his Ohio River city.

Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore says he'd hoped another boat builder might take over the shipyard Jeffboat plans to shutter this spring.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana barge and towboat manufacturer will shut down its Ohio River shipyard this spring, ending ship building operations at the site that stretches back more than 180 years.

Parent company American Commercial Lines announced closure plans Monday for the Jeffboat shipyard in Jeffersonville, citing an oversupply of barges and a significant drop in orders over the past three years.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana man charged with molesting 19 children faces a sixth civil lawsuit stemming from that alleged abuse.

The lawsuit filed March 12 on behalf of one of Michael Begin Jr.'s alleged victims names the 18-year-old Jeffersonville man, the Greater Clark School Corporation and YMCA of Southern Indiana Inc. as defendants.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana county's needle exchange program has expanded its days of operation to increase intravenous drug users' access to the program.

Clark County's needle exchange had been open each Thursday, for six hours, since it began operations in Jeffersonville in January 2017.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Work could start this summer on a $17 million project aimed at boosting how much cargo can be handled at one of Indiana's Ohio River shipping ports.

Plans for the Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville include a new barge loading facility, some 2,000 feet of additional railway and another loading facility for trucks and trains.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana museum is raising money to restore a Civil War-era painting of a horse that once roamed freely through a small community where locals considered it the "town pet."

New Albany resident Edgar Polley recently donated the painting to the Clark County Museum in Jeffersonville.

County historian Jeanne Burke is seeking donations from the public to finance the estimated $5,000 cost of restoring the well-worn painting, which depicts a white horse.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A judge has ordered mental and physical examinations for a 79-year-old man charged with shooting a state trooper in the head during a December traffic stop in southern Indiana.

The Clark County judge issued the order for Oscar Kays of Jeffersonville, who faces attempted murder and other charges for the Dec. 12 wounding of Trooper Morgenn Evans. The trooper's head was skimmed by a bullet and he was released after a few hours at a hospital.

MOUNT VERNON, Ind. (AP) — A state agency says Indiana's busiest shipping port had its busiest year ever during 2017.

The Ports of Indiana Commission says the Mount Vernon port along the Ohio River near Evansville handled 6.8 million tons of shipping cargo last year, a jump of 7 percent from 2016. That total was 200,000 tons more than the port's previous record in 2015.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The remains of 17 Indiana settlers dating back to the 1800s have been relocated.

The descendants of the settlers recently gathered to honor them, according to The News and Tribune .

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana man accused of sexually assaulting 17 young children is being sued by one of his alleged victims.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Clark County on the girl's behalf seeks unspecified damages from 18-year-old Michael Begin Jr. and the Greater Clark School Corporation. It alleges Begin sexually assaulted the girl in October at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Jeffersonville.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana woman who admits that she had drugs in her system when her SUV collided with a freight train, killing her two young children, has pleaded guilty to reduced charges.

Twenty-nine-year-old Ericka Fouch, of Henryville, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of causing death while operating a vehicle with schedule I or II drugs in the system and an infraction for driving with a suspended license.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Barge and towboat manufacturer Jeffboat LLC has notified the state of Indiana it will lay off 226 workers at its Jeffersonville shipyard because of slumping demand.

Jeffboat notified the Indiana Department of Workforce Development of the layoffs on Friday. They are expected to begin Monday.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — An 18-year-old southern Indiana man has been returned to jail after 22 additional child molesting counts were filed against him alleging he assaulted 17 young children while working at a YMCA and as an elementary school teaching assistant.

Michael Begin Jr. was incarcerated Monday after a judge increased the Jeffersonville man's bond to $100,000 cash-only from the $10,000 he posted after being initially charged in October with two counts of child molesting.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — An 18-year-old southern Indiana man has been arrested on charges alleging he molested 17 children ages 3 to 7 while he worked at a YMCA and as an elementary school teaching assistant.

Michael Begin Jr., of Jeffersonville, was charged with two counts of child molestation in October. Clark County Prosecutor Jeremy Mull said Friday that he was filing another 20 counts against him.

"It's possible there are other victims that we're not aware of yet," Mull said.