Articles in: Center of Attention

It was Dec. 19, 1944, when Pope Pius XII created the Diocese of Evansville, dedicating an area made up of 12 counties in southwestern Indiana...

Losing a child is the hardest thing a parent can experience. Instead of falling into darkness, Tiffany and Brian Ball made the decision to celebrate...

William Snyder has won four Pulitzer prizes throughout his career, but the famed photographer got his start shooting football games for The Gleaner...

Jason Burton admits talking has never been his forte. But after four years of hosting the Evansville Podcast, talking with local business owners and...

Olivia Taylor took her first dance class when she was 2 years old. The 12 year old has been dancing ever since. “I started out taking one hour...

EVSC Foundation executive director Maureen Barton finds she is challenged by narrowing the foundation’s purpose into a one-minute speech to new...

Space often is referred to as the “final frontier” of human exploration. But for a team of engineering and physics students at the...

Hundreds of years ago, bison herds were no strange sight to the first European settlers entering lands now known as Indiana. Generally symbolic of...

Growing up along the banks of the Ohio River in Evansville, Adam Ellenstein quickly found a comfort in the water. He remembers his grandmother Jeanne...

John Nunn, 38 • Current residence: Bonsall, California Hometown: Evansville (Harrison High School, class of 1996) Nunn is a three-time Olympian...

Born and raised in the Midwest, Kelsey Timmerman understands manufacturing and farming, which he examines internationally in his books “Where...

Tate Fritchley never considered herself a pageant girl. She could speak in front of a group, sure. Carrying on a conversation, the bubbly 18-year-old...

Evansville residents Steve and Susan Harp’s 8-year-old yellow Labrador retriever EVIE SUE often is seen snoozing during class presentations and...

As the sharing of cat videos and memes sweep social media, the face of one special feline is Indiana’s own. Known for her large eyes, small...

For 24-year-old Patrick Cowe, magic is reality. The Bosse High School graduate is now among the very best in the world at a trading card game called...

For Margaret McMullan and her father James, reading and talking about what they were reading was their way of staying close, despite separate postal...

When it first opened to students in September 1965, Indiana State University Evansville was cramped inside the old Centennial Elementary School...

In June 2004, before her senior year of high school, Jessica Harthcock was practicing her diving at a local gymnastics facility. The Memorial High...

Naturalization ceremonies are among Richard Young’s favorite moments. As a U.S. District Judge, Young gets to preside over the moment when...

Paige McFarling’s past is filled with music. Growing up in the Evansville area, she took lessons in piano, flute, oboe, and voice with teachers...