Aprile Rickert
Southern Indiana ReporterAprile is LPM's Southern Indiana reporter. Rickert comes to LPM from the News and Tribune in Southern Indiana, where she covered crime and courts as a senior reporter. A New Albany native, she spent nearly two decades in Louisville before recently moving back across the river to Jeffersonville.
Email Aprile at arickert@lpm.org.
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Intense storms, including suspected tornadoes, ripped through east Louisville and some of Southern Indiana. So far, no injuries have been reported. -
The Floyd County Commissioners are moving toward removal of a low-head dam that closed the Blackiston Mill Road bridge when it failed earlier this year. That could mean drivers will be able to use the connection between Clarksville and New Albany before a new bridge is built. -
An Indiana judge has reinstated members of a Utica fire board, finding they weren’t properly removed by the Clark County Commissioners earlier this month. It happened just in time for the fire board to approve a fire territory with Jeffersonville before the deadline next month. -
A Southern Indiana mother is suing multiple municipalities, saying their negligence led to her son’s drowning death at a controversial low-head dam last May. -
Two years in, negotiations continue in a legal challenge over the future of the former Colgate-Palmolive property in Clarksville. Town officials initiated legal action to take the real estate by eminent domain, saying they want to make sure the historic property is preserved. -
An Indiana judge has approved an emergency hearing next week to consider whether the Clark County Commissioners acted illegally when they removed every member of a Utica fire board the day before a vote to create a fire territory. -
Proponents of a proposed fire territory in Southern Indiana say they hope legal intervention can bring it back to the table. Members of the Utica Township Fire Protection District board who were removed this week are taking legal action.
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The Clark County Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to remove all three members of the Utica Township Fire Protection District board. It came one day before the board was expected to approve creation of a fire territory with Jeffersonville, a move some other local leaders have opposed. -
Clark County officials are poised to create a new fire territory, which they say will add needed fire and EMS protection to Jeffersonville, Utica and Utica Township. Some leaders in surrounding areas say the new territory will mean a hit to their tax revenue and impact operations, and have formally opposed it. -
A former Clark County Council member is the third person to plead guilty in the investigation of former Sheriff Jamey Noel.
