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Vanderburgh County puts up another 1,200-plus COVID-19 vaccinations View Comments EVANSVILLE, Ind. — One day after reporting 1,075 new residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Vanderburgh County put up another 1,213 Thursday. Vanderburgh County also reported 19 new confirmed coronavirus cases Thursday, making 22,271 in all during the pandemic. No new deaths were reported in Vanderburgh, Warrick, Posey or Gibson counties. Vanderburgh County's seven-day positivity rate for individuals has been trending downward in recent days, and that continued Thursday. The county posted a positivi...

In the days before her death, Miriam “Angela” Chapman talked a lot about going home. She had arrived in Miami a few months earlier, moving into a motel in a shoddy part of town. Right away, the manager noticed her laugh. It would kick up out of nowhere, even when things weren’t funny. Like some other young women in the area, she worked the bars as a sex worker. But as the winter of 1976 brightened into spring, she dreamed of getting out. Of climbing on a bus and heading home to Indiana. “She said she was going to start saving a little money and go home (to her family),” the manager ...

View Comments New coronavirus cases surged in Indiana in the week ending Sunday, rising 17% as 7,860 cases were reported. The previous week had 6,719 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19. Indiana ranked 19th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week, coronavirus cases in the United States decreased 15.4% from the week before, with 344,463 cases reported. With 2.02% of the country's population, Indiana had 2.28% of the country's cases in the last week. Acros...

Vanderburgh County vaults past 57,000 residents vaccinated against COVID-19 EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Vanderburgh County reported Friday that another 625 residents are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, vaulting the county's total just past 57,000 people. Vanderburgh also reported adding another 16 COVID-19 cases, but its seven-day positivity rate for individuals did go down after several days of increases. The positivity rate clocked in at 14.2% Thursday, but on Friday it was down to 12.6%. Statewide, the positivity rate for individuals has been on a downward trajectory this week. Indi...