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.

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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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Floyd County jail’s average daily female population was 59 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 police Assistant Chief Michael McVoy tells the

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.

Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore first heard of Schnatter’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Floyd and Clark counties have each confirmed about 30 hepatitis A cases since February,

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana regulators have dramatically reduced the fines an auto parts company had faced for alleged safety violations found after a worker’s death.

The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Autoneum North America Inc. $224,000 in November ...

BORDEN, Ind. (AP) — The private operators of a southern Indiana landfill are suing two counties, seeking $5.2 million in bond proceeds they say they’re owed.

Clark-Floyd Landfill LLC sued Clark and Floyd counties on Jan. 5. The suit alleges that the landfill is owed the bond money and ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A nearly century-old Masonic temple that was facing possible demolition in southern Indiana will become the headquarters of a real estate company.

The Jeffersonville building’s current owner had sparked an outcry in the Ohio River city when he sought a permit to ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Preliminary statistics show a 30 percent decline in overdose deaths last year in a southern Indiana county, marking the first dip in at least three years.

The Clark County Health Department is waiting on final numbers but said tests so far show 60 drug-related ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The group overseeing tolling on three Ohio River bridges linking Indiana and Kentucky plans to tweak the tolling system to make it more user-friendly and to address other issues that have cropped up in its first year.

RiverLink spokeswoman Mindy Peterson said ...