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North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy... Source: Headline News - WFIE
French President Francois Hollande has signed a law authorizing gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, after months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate. Source: Headline News - WFIE
The local chapter of the American Red Cross honored local heroes on Thursday night. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and... Source: Headline News - WFIE
Sonic the Hedgehog is rolling with Nintendo. Source: Headline News - WFIE
There is no Jesus gene. Nobody is born Christian. Although both my parents are Christians, I was not born believing that there is a god who impregnated a virgin to give birth to a man who was somehow himself, who turned water into wine and walked on the sea, and then let his own son be beaten and crucified — “Gee, thanks, Dad” — only so he could rise from the dead like a zombie messiah three days later. That took some teaching, a baptism rite and a child’s willingness to believe anything his parents taught him. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Picture yourself sitting in a restaurant having a private conversation with a business client or an intimate chat with a romantic partner, paying no attention to the person at the next table wearing spectacles and who seems, at times, to be staring at you. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Lest you think I am underground for lack of contact irritating you, I ain’t. It’s about time you riled up the populace. The article in last Saturday’s edition about the scribe handwriting the Bible in four years did the trick. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Last week Butch Branson, one of the founding members of the Henderson Project, announced his intent to build two projects in downtown Henderson, a 30-slip marina along the riverfront and a mixed-use commercial-residential development on the corner of Second and Water streets. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
The long, lonely desert roads leading to and from Benghazi have proved to be treacherous to travelers and invaders from the Mediterranean and around the world for many centuries. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Want to know what’s causing a lot of people in Washington to work long hours right now? Here’s a hint: it’s not immigration reform or gun control or, for that matter, any other legislation coming down the pike. Instead, it’s a pair of 3-year-old laws. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Tears fall for one of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp.’s finest superintendent’s, Victor L. Fisher Jr., who died May 5. Both of his parents were teachers. He was named EVSC superintendent in 1973 and retired from the leadership position in 1986. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
State leaders take back the incentives for the proposed fertilizer plant in Posey County, but the developers say they're still going forward. Source: Headliner News - WTVW
By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer Is Michael Phelps planning a comeback? Source: Headline News - WFIE

Domonic Brown drove in the tiebreaking run on an infield grounder in the eighth and the Philadelphia Phillies snapped the Cincinnati Reds' six-game winning streak with a 5-3 victory on Friday night. Source: Headline News - WFIE

A three-run bottom of the seventh inning secured Harrison a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over visiting Reitz in high school baseball on Friday. Source: Headline News - Courier Press

David Freese hit a grand slam for his first homer of the season, and the St. Louis Cardinals used a five-run first inning to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 on Friday night. Source: Headline News - WFIE

Local sports briefs Source: Headline News - Courier Press
The Evansville Otters committed three errors on Friday night, lost another ball in the lights, had their would-be tying runner caught stealing and surrendered a go-ahead, ground-ball triple that scored two runs. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Drifting toward an upset loss, the Henderson County Lady Colonels reversed course with a four-run fifth inning on Friday and held on for a 5-3 softball victory over visiting Crittenden County. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Union County junior Jarrell Foster won state championships in the long jump and triple jump in Friday’s 2-A state championship meet. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Kaleb Duckworth continued to terrorize area pitchers with a 3-for-3 performance that helped Henderson County to an 11-6 win over Owensboro Catholic Friday at B.T. Wayne Field Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Henderson County junior Cain Cooper will pursue his second straight state championship in the pole vault while getting closer and closer to a 45-year-old school record. Source: Headline News - Courier Press
Officers got a search warrant, and once inside the home, found what they call a substantial amount of marijuana. Source: Headline News - WFIE
Methodist Hospital in Henderson has a clinic for children's health care. Source: Headliner News - WTVW
A packed house for last night's Tom Petty concert at Ford Center. But it's also what he did before the show that has some people talking. Source: Headliner News - WTVW
The Hopkins County School Board votes on a new superintendent this afternoon. Source: Headliner News - WTVW
The Illinois Senate passes legislation that would legalize medical marijuana for patients suffering from certain conditions. Source: Headliner News - WTVW
Investigators said Jaime Clutter, 35, suffered from mental illness -- possibly psychosis and postpartum depression -- when she walked her children to Binford Park March 13 and drowned them.
 Source: Headline News - WFIE
Investigators said Jaime Clutter, 35, suffered from mental illness -- possibly psychosis and postpartum depression -- when she walked her children to Binford Park March 13 and drowned them.
 Source: Headline News - WFIE
Two people from south Florida face felony charges in Vanderburgh County after they allegedly tried to cash checks stolen from cars at Goebel Soccer Fields. Source: Headliner News - WTVW
As you head into the weekend, don't forget police agencies in Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois are increasing patrols. Source: Headliner News - WTVW
Some Posey County residents are relieved to hear that Governor Pence has pulled the incentive package that would have allowed the construction of a fertilizer plant. "Our welfare, our air we breathe, Source: Headline News - WFIE
Two American soldiers were killed along with four American civilian contractors with DynCorp International, based in Falls Church, Va. Source: Headline News - WFIE
One of Alaska's most restless volcanoes shot an ash cloud 15,000 feet into the air Friday in an ongoing eruption that is visible for miles when the weather allows. Source: Headline News - WFIE

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