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Vanderburgh County home listings asked for more money in June – see the current median price here
The median home in Vanderburgh County listed for $257,475 in June, up 2.5% from the previous month's $251,250, an analysis of data from shows. Compared to June 2024, the median home list price increased 19.8% from $219,900. The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Vanderburgh County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at Vanderburgh County's median home was 1,694 square feet, listed at $146 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 18.4% from June 2024. Listings in Vanderburgh County moved steadily, at a median 45 days listed compared to the June national median of 53 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 39 days on the market. Around 242 homes were newly listed on the market in June, a 0.8% decrease from 244 new listings in June 2024. The median home prices issued by may exclude many, or even most, of a market's homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales. Across the Evansville metro area, median home prices rose to $282,225, slightly higher than a month earlier. The median home had 1,861 square feet, at a list price of $151 per square foot. In Indiana, median home prices were $310,000, a slight increase from May. The median Indiana home listed for sale had 1,958 square feet, with a price of $160 per square foot. Throughout the United States, the median home price was $440,950, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,852 square feet, with a price of $233 per square foot. The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price. The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu. Our News Automation and AI team would like to hear from you. Take this survey and share your thoughts with us. This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Vanderburgh County home listings asked for more money in June – see the current median price here Solve the daily Crossword
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14-07-2025
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MLB Draft: Memorial pitcher Matthew Fisher selected by Philadelphia Phillies
EVANSVILLE — Matthew Fisher has earned a spot among a rare group in Evansville baseball history. The Memorial High School graduate was selected 221st overall in the seventh round by the Philadelphia Phillies in the Major League Baseball draft on Monday, June 14. He is the first Tiger chosen since 2002 and only the third in program history to be drafted straight out of high school. Advertisement Fisher was viewed as a Day 1 selection by numerous publications. He was rated a top 50 prospect by and ESPN, the former ranking him as the fifth-best prep pitcher in the country. Evansville has produced only four first-round draft picks in MLB history: Tony Moretto (Harrison, 1975); Andy Benes (Central, 1988); Steve Obenchain (Memorial, 2002); Preston Mattingly (Central, 2006). Why was Fisher made the highest selection by an Evansville athlete in over a decade? He has an elite right arm. The 6-foot-3-inch pitcher went 6-0 with a 0.76 ERA this spring in his senior season. He registered 61 strikeouts to only 11 walks in 36⅔ innings. Despite being limited to a pitch count in April and May, Fisher allowed only 16 hits and four earned runs. The Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year throws multiple pitches for strikes: a fastball that routinely touched 95 miles per hour, a low-80s slider, an upper-70s curveball and a mid-80s changeup. Teams were also intrigued by his overall athleticism. Fisher was an All-State quarterback for Memorial and guided the team to an undefeated regular season in 2024. He compiled 2,779 passing yards and 42 total touchdowns during his final season. He was named the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference Player of the Year in both football and baseball. Advertisement Fisher becomes the ninth Memorial graduate to be chosen in the MLB Draft. The only others in program history to be chosen straight from the prep ranks were Don Mattingly (1979) and Mark Wezet (1973). Mattingly played 14 years with the New York Yankees; Wezet pitched in college at Murray State. More: Memorial's Matthew Fisher and Myla Browning named 2025 SIAC Athletes of the Year The next step for Fisher is choosing professional or college baseball. He could sign with the Phillies or report to Indiana University. The deadline for any player to sign a contract, unless they've exhausted their collegiate eligibility, is July 30. The slot value for the 221st overall pick is $257.70k– the actual signing bonus could be higher or lower depending on negotiations and Philadelphia's entire bonus pool. This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: 2025 MLB Draft: Matthew Fisher picked by Philadelphia Phillies
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14-07-2025
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Get ready, Lloyd Expressway drivers: Revamped intersections will open this week
After months of construction, revamped intersections on the Lloyd Expressway in Evansville are set to open this week. Weather permitting, the Lloyd's new interchanges with Stockwell Road will be unveiled to the public on Wednesday after the "morning peak travel period" ends, the Indiana Department of Transportation said in a news release Monday morning. Motorists heading east on the Lloyd and looking to turn north onto Stockwell will come upon a displaced left. They'll have to enter the left turn lanes right as they pass Vann Avenue and well before they reach the main intersection. "Pay attention to signs and pavement markings to avoid missing your opportunity to go north," the release states. Westbound Lloyd drivers wanting to head south on Stockwell, meanwhile, will navigate a boulevard left. They will actually go through the main intersection and then spill into a left turn lane that will eventually allow them to make a U-turn. That will send them back the opposite direction to then turn right onto Stockwell. According to the release, police officers will be on scene to "encourage traffic calming" − as in, make sure drivers navigate the designs smoothly. On Tuesday, crews will actually block traditional left turns onto northbound Stockwell to prep for the unveiling. And there will be additional closures as workers add new pavement striping between Stockwell and the Pigeon Creek Bridge. The Stockwell work is one small part of the yearslong, $100 million overhaul of the Lloyd Expressway that's meant to improve safety and travel times. And as one project ends, two more are set to begin. On Monday, crews planned to begin prep work for huge undertakings at two of the busiest intersections in Evansville: the Lloyd and Burkhart Road, and the Lloyd and Cross Pointe Boulevard. Both will receive displaced left turns in each direction. Drivers will start to see closures of interior lanes as workers remove concrete medians. This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: When will new intersections open on Evansville's Lloyd Expressway?
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14-07-2025
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Latest Lloyd Expressway closure in Evansville could affect back-to-school traffic
EVANSVILLE – The newest road closure stemming from the overhaul of the Lloyd Expressway will briefly impact back-to-school traffic for a West Side school. According to a Sunday news release from the Indiana Department of Transportation, the intersection from the Lloyd onto northbound Boehne Camp Road will close for about 30 days starting on or around Monday, July 14. That could affect traffic to Perry Heights Middle School, which sits near the intersection of Boehne Camp and Hogue roads. Classes start on Aug. 4, right in the middle of the closure. "Access Boehne Camp from the north if you normally use the Lloyd," the release states. "The closure relates to minor intersection improvements at Boehne Camp – from added (or) lengthened turn lanes to new pavement markings, signage and traffic signal replacement." This likely won't be the only closure for the stretch. Work will continue "intermittently through 2026," the release says. The construction is part of the ongoing $100 million revamp of the Lloyd's entire expanse. Work on new alternative intersections recently wrapped up at Stockwell Road, and major construction will soon begin in earnest at the Lloyd's interchanges with Burkhardt Road and Cross Pointe Boulevard. The West Side all the way to the Posey County line remains under heavy construction as well. The entire project isn't expected to finish until 2028. This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Closure on Lloyd Expressway could affect traffic for Evansville school
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07-07-2025
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Court sets 'tentative' execution date for Southern Indiana murderer Roy Lee Ward
EVANSVILLE – The Indiana Supreme Court has set a "tentative" execution date for Roy Lee Ward: the Southern Indiana murderer who has sat on death row off and on for more than 20 years after killing Spencer County teenager Stacy Payne in 2001. In an order issued just after 11 a.m. Monday, Chief Justice Loretta Rush preliminarily scheduled Ward to die on Oct. 10. Whether that will happen is still up in the air. The preliminary order comes a little less than two weeks after Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a motion on June 27 asking the state supreme court to set an execution date. Ward's death will only go forward if the court approves the motion. Rush and the other justices apparently issued the order Monday to remove an administration roadblock. Rush wrote they did so "out of respect for all parties with important responsibilities." The court was only performing its "administrative task." The actual execution will depend on both the court's ruling and what actions Ward's attorneys take to try to stop the lethal injection. Their options include everything from federal litigation to asking Gov. Mike Braun to commute Ward's sentence. "... Other state and federal officials must work backwards from that date to fulfill their own important duties related to an ordered execution," Rush wrote. "... The Department of Correction must carryout the execution, navigating all the logistics that entails." One of the biggest? Whether Indiana will actually have its new lethal injection drug on hand. In early June, Braun announced the state had exhausted its supply of pentobarbital, the drug it has used to carry out two executions since December: those of Joseph Corcoran and Benjamin Ritchie. "We've got to address the broad issue of, what are other methods, the discussion of capital punishment in general," Braun told reporters at the Indiana Statehouse on June 3. "And then something that costs, I think, $300,000 a pop that has a 90-day shelf life, I'm not going to be for putting it on the shelf and then letting them expire." Ward fatally stabbed Payne, a 15-year-old Heritage Hills cheerleader and honor roll student, while she was at home in Dale with her younger sister on July 11, 2001. He knocked on their door and lied to Stacy, claiming he was looking for a lost dog. Police responded to a 911 call from Stacy's sister and reportedly found Ward still holding the knife he used in the murder. Payne played in the high school band, attended youth group at St. Joseph Catholic Church, and had recently started a job at Jenk's Pizza. A jury sentenced Ward to death in 2002, only to have that overturned on appeal. In 2007, another jury came to same conclusion, and that conviction stuck. Ward's attorneys have spent the years since filing numerous motions and lawsuits to delay his execution. Indiana's lack of a consistent lethal injection drug supply has slowed things down as well. The executions of Corcoran and Ritchie were the first in the state since 2009. This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: When will Roy Lee Ward be executed?
