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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Yahoo
Retired VCSO lieutenant honored for injury in line of duty
Retired Vigo County Sheriff's Office Lt. Brent Hall has been recognized for injury in the line of duty while handling a dangerous call in which police were shot at. Hall was presented the Order of The Blue Heart by The Wounded Blue organization. Vigo County sheriff's deputies on April 11, 2020, investigated a call in which a West Terre Haute woman reported her husband might have been injured or committed suicide. Deputies began searching for the man's vehicle and found it in a field at the base of a hill near West Illiana Drive and Crews Place. The rear window of the SUV appeared to be shot out. Hall was examining the SUV when he came under fire from nearby trees and bushes. At least three bullets struck Hall's vehicle. Deputies took cover and called for assistance as more shots were fired at them. Officers from the sheriff's department, city police and state police responded and tried to make contact with the gunman. Eventually, police spotted the shooter concealed in brush while firing at officers. A reserve sheriff's deputy shot and killed the gunman, who was identified as 51-year-old Errol Bolin. After investigation, the shooting was deemed justified by Vigo County Prosecutor Terry Modesitt, who said Bolin ambushed law enforcement officers. As Hall was being fired upon, he was moving to a position of cover when he suffered a broken ankle. Hall and other responders received the Medal of Valor for their actions. Hall, however, had not been recognized for suffering an injury during the incident. Hall has since retired from the Vigo County Sheriff's Office. He now works as a fraud investigator with the First Financial Bank in Terre Haute, where the awards ceremony was conducted. For more information on the The Wounded Blue, visit
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ivy Tech Terre Haute Announces 25th Annual Scholarship Scramble Presented by First Financial Bank
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) – Ivy Tech Community College Terre Haute/Greencastle is preparing for its 25th Annual Scholarship Scramble, presented by First Financial Bank. The event will take place on May 16, 2025, at Idle Creek Golf Course. Since its inception 25 years ago, the Scholarship Scramble has been dedicated to raising funds for scholarships benefiting Ivy Tech Terre Haute and Greencastle students. First Financial Bank has been a steadfast supporter, serving as the title sponsor for all 25 years and contributing more than $250,000 toward scholarships for first-generation college students. 'We are honored to continue our partnership with Ivy Tech Community College for the 25th consecutive year,' said Norman D. Lowery, president and CEO of First Financial Bank. 'Supporting education and empowering students aligns with our commitment to the community, and we look forward to another successful event.' West Central Indiana businesses and individuals are invited to become sponsors. The Par Sponsorship ($1,500) includes cart fees, green fees, lunch, a hole sponsorship sign, a cart sign, a VIP goodie bag, plus the creation of a $1,000 named scholarship for Ivy Tech students. To celebrate the 25th anniversary, new challenges, such as a unique putting contest, will be added to long-time favorites, including the hole-in-one challenge to win a new car courtesy of Terre Haute Chevrolet. 'The Scholarship Scramble is more than just a golf outing; it's an investment in our students and the future of our community,' said Alia Shuck, vice chancellor of development and marketing for Ivy Tech Terre Haute/Greencastle. 'Thanks to the generosity of First Financial Bank and our sponsors, we have been able to provide numerous scholarships that help students overcome financial barriers, achieve their educational goals, and earn rewarding careers in West Central Indiana.' To register a team or learn more about sponsorship opportunities, please visit Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Car crashes into machine, barrier in bank drive-thru
A car hit a machine and a barrier at a bank drive-thru in Miami Township Sunday afternoon. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The crash occurred at First Financial Bank in the 2000 block of W Alex Bell Road around 11:30 a.m. TRENDING STORIES: 2 arrested after nearly 150 grams of drugs found inside house Winning Powerball ticket sold in the Miami Valley 'She had a good heart;' Family of woman fatally shot gather in her memory News Center 7 crews on scene see a black car up against one of the barriers on the side of the building. One of the delivery shoot machines in the drive-thru was also damaged. Additional information was not immediately available. It is not clear if anyone was injured in this crash. News Center 7 will continue to follow this story. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
The Guardian
25-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The Brutalist is about a great architect. Columbus is a heartfelt tribute to great architecture
Brady Corbet's Oscar hopeful The Brutalist offers a somewhat skewed depiction of architectural intent, one where public demonstrations of genius and private catharses have an outsized impact on a building's design. Grand gestures and hidden intentions make for good drama, but physical space in The Brutalist is rendered secondary to psychological space — it's a film about a great architect, not great architecture. For the latter, one must watch Korean-American director Kogonada's film Columbus. Early on in this gentle drama, Jin (John Cho) speaks of renowned architect James Polshek's belief in architecture as a 'healing art' while looking at one of Polshek's own designs: the glass walkway of the Columbus Regional Mental Health Center. While Jin admires its faintly dilapidated beauty, it is unclear whether he believes that architecture can really heal us. But Kogonada most certainly does: his generosity of spirit and rigorous control of cinematic technique imbue Columbus with a quiet, aching humanity, demonstrating how spaces can haunt and heal us. For Jin, Columbus the city exists almost as a state of limbo. Travelling from Seoul to care for his comatose father – a noted architectural scholar struck down by a heart attack – Jin finds himself at his dad's side at the behest of his father's assistant, Eleanor (Parker Posey), rather than genuine filial piety. While awaiting his father's ultimate fate, Jin busies himself with his work as a translator, telling Eleanor that his publisher has implied 'family is the most important thing, but really work is the most important thing' – a convenient excuse for a man reluctant to grieve. Meanwhile, Columbus local Kasey (Haley Lu Richardson) keeps a watchful eye over her mother, who is recovering from meth addiction. This has kept the gifted 19-year-old from pursuing a college education – or following up on a job offer from a famed architect based in Boston. Instead, Casey devotes her time to working at the local library alongside the amiable but noncommital Gabriel (Rory Culkin). Casey, who rattles off tour guide spiels about the local architecture to herself, accurately picks Jin's relation to his famous father and the pair strike up a friendship. Casey offers to take Jin, a self-avowed skeptic on the higher powers of architecture, on a tour of Columbus' modernist treasures: from the formidable spire of Eero Sarinen's North Christian church to the unobtrusive beauty of James Stewart Polshek's health center. These spaces offer ample fodder for Jin and Casey's musings on architecture, as well as cinematographer Elisha Christian's stately compositions. Spaces can liberate and inspire, like how the soft glow of the First Financial Bank – a favourite building of Casey's – acts as a proverbial light on a hill that she keeps returning to. While this could all give the impression Columbus is a coolly intellectual work, Cho and Richardson's performances ensure this is a film of the heart as much as the head. As Jin, Cho elegantly evokes a man at war with his father's influence; the jocular manner in which he chastises Casey is a paternal imitation, achingly giving away a 'very serious' but 'admittedly naive' boy still growing up in his father's shadow. Watching Jin's bluffs falter during a failed attempt to rekindle his teenage crush on Eleanor is a moment of particular heartbreak. As Casey, Richardson cycles between self-enforced stoicism and the bleeding-heart hope she seeks to quash. The thinly veiled pleading in Casey's eyes as she chastises Jin for not accompanying her on an impromptu midnight walk ('You're such an old man', she jibes) is a moment of particular tenderness. Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion The movie scored only modest financial returns, but Kogonada parlayed the near-universal critical acclaim that greeted Columbus into a second feature film, 2021's After Yang. He then took to the director's chair for some of TV's biggest productions, including the lavish adaptation of Min Jin Lee's Korean family epic Pachinko. Richardson found more mainstream recognition with her role in the 2019 teen weepie Five Feet Apart, while Cho flexed his leading man muscles with the inventive 2018 thriller Missing. And yet Columbus lingers as the finest work of all three's careers: a film that quietly creates the space to form a new perspective on how we relate to the world around us – and most importantly, to each other. Columbus is available to stream on SBS OnDemand in Australia, Apple TV in the UK and the US. For more recommendations of what to stream in Australia, click here
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
First Financial Bank backs Hamilton's Amtrak efforts
Jan. 29—Since Amtrak announced it would expand its passenger rail through Ohio, Hamilton city leaders have lobbied state, federal rail authorities and Amtrak to bring one or possibly two stops into the city. On Tuesday, the city landed support from First Financial Bank in its initiative to land a stop for the Amtrack passenger service. First Financial Bank CEO Archie Brown penned a letter of support to the cause, and that document was presented to Hamilton leaders. Jeff Judd, First Financial Bank Market president for Butler and Warren County, said the letter talks about the importance of a stop in Hamilton and the bank's support of bringing it to the county's seat. Hamilton Mayor Pat Moeller said support for this Amtrak initiative, which some dubbed the effort Hamtrak, is growing and "soon people all around town are going to understand how important Amtrak is to business." "If you can get an Amtrak ride from Hamilton and do business in Columbus and Cleveland, or anywhere in between, that's the business positiveness about Amtrak," he said. "And it would be fun, too, to go somewhere on the weekend to Columbus, Cleveland, to Cincinnati." Dewayne Greenwood, First Financial Bank's Senior Business Specialist, said passenger rail with Amtrak "would be an amazing thing for this community, not only from a people standpoint but an economic impact that it can have in this community over a period of time could be amazing." Hamilton Councilman Michael Ryan called First Financial Bank's support "a very powerful voice." He's been the lead for the city in pushing to land one or two Amtrak stops said, "When we started this endeavor, this was all about Hamilton, this was all about getting our folks involved to push Hamilton forward." "We're investing in Hamilton. Amtrak is an investment into the future. It's an investment to help our business, it's an investment to help our residents with travel, tourism and economic development, and support our businesses and make our city great and strong." Hamilton hired a consultant to help give the city its best shot at landing a stop. Officials have identified the Butler County city as a possible stop for two lines. One stop is the to-be-established 3C+D line, which would connect Cleveland and Cincinnati by way of Columbus and Dayton. The other stop would be along the Cardinal line, which currently exists and Amtrak is adding a stop in Oxford. Amtrak, the state of Ohio and other planning organizations are in the midst of their own feasibility study, and the state report is anticipated in May. Hamilton's consultant is expected to release its feasibility study in February. If Hamilton gets both the 3C+D and Cardinal lines, they would open up Hamilton to the major cities in Ohio as well as the Midwest, like Chicago and Indianapolis, and in the east to Washington, D.C. Greater Hamilton Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dan Bates said his organization conducted some research on the impacts of train stations. He said it's been shown that when a city upgrades an airport or adds a train station, "without exception, every city that did that had major economic growth related directly to that. I can't imagine it wouldn't be the same in Hamilton." "You can't think about the history of Hamilton without thinking about (First Financial Bank) because they're one in the same," Bates said about the bank, which was founded in Hamilton more than 160 years ago. "It's great to have new enthusiasm, and we have certainly noticed your involvement in the community, and your interest in business success." First Financial Bank has been investing in Hamilton for the past few years, including building a new branch to replace an old building on Ohio 4 and refreshing the bank lobby at 300 High St. in downtown. Jessica Valentino, the bank's district manager for Hamilton and Fairfield said they're continuing to commit to investing in the city, which includes investing in the High Street building. They are continuing to renovate the first floor for Yellow Cardinal Advisory Group with a High Street street entrance. Later this year, they're expected to renovate by turning the second floor into a community room that's free for the community to use. They also plan to bring associates back to downtown Hamilton when it eventually renovates the eighth floor. That investment, which will be in the millions of dollars, is a commitment to the city, said Moeller. "Thank you for the investment into the building and bringing jobs back, That's an investment in the city of Hamilton, that's an investment into our citizens and it means a lot. And the community spaces is another reason why we really appreciate First Financial Bank in Hamilton."
