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Stories from the Pocket City
Crash and a coma2012
Jessica Whetstine raises her right arm, shakes her wrist a little and the tinkle of her jewelry rings softly in her hospital room.
The sound from her shifting bracelets is too soft to drown out the hum of people on the floor she is on — or the machinery in her room. But the sound of movement sparks hope for her parents, Chris and Barb Whetstine.
It reinforces their hope that she can make a full recovery from a motorcycle wreck that has left her in a coma since May 26.
Veteran remembers storming beach of Normandyan Smith March 2012
Early on the morning of June 6, 1944, Army Pfc. Carl Mann climbed down the side of a troop transport ship, slipped into a rickety Higgins boat with 30 other men and set out for the beaches of Normandy.
But like so many that day, the boat Mann, a 20-year-old Mount Vernon, Ind., native, was in, never made it to shore.
"The Germans had a field day," Mann, now 89, recalled
Welborn drops health plans, county scrambling to find coverage for employees
Carol Simons March 2012
Click on the three links below to see my series of stories on the Evansville health insurance provider, Welborn, who stopped carrying health insurance abruptly in the summer of 2012.
The company was not the first small, local provider to shut down their health care coverage, but it left county employees reeling as to who their new provider would be -- and if their premiums would go up.
Donnelly talks with Courier &
Press editors
Carol Simons March 201
Renewable energy sources such as natural gas and ethanol are cornerstones of Indiana's economy and steps along the road toward America's energy independence, according to Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Joe Donnelly.
Meeting with Courier & Press editors Wednesday Donnelly, who currently serves as Indiana's Second District congressman, noted the relationship between energy independence and cooperative foreign relations.
