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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The window to declare candidacy in Indiana’s primary election is now open, with some in Southern Indiana getting an early start. -
New court documents detail accusations that Jamey Noel used nonprofit funds to pay support for a child he fathered with a county council member. -
Dustin White, a Democrat who recently started his third term on the Jeffersonville City Council, will run for Clark County Circuit Court No. 4 judge, which will become vacant at the end of the year. -
The Clarksville Town Council named a new police chief this week as one of its first orders of business of the new term. Some residents and council members have raised concerns about the move. -
This year’s municipal elections in Southern Indiana increased or maintained the Democratic party’s representation on some boards — including flipping one city council. -
Jeffersonville officials plan to support redevelopment of the former Jeffboat shipyard, including a commitment to build infrastructure and creating a Tax Increment Financing, or TIF, district. -
Clarksville officials are taking steps to reduce the vast and underused space dedicated to parking lots — which they hope will improve the town’s economy and address environmental concerns. -
Indiana State Police served a new warrant late last week for a 1958 Cessna plane as part of the ongoing criminal investigation of former Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel. -
A Kentucky woman has dropped a recently filed class-action lawsuit challenging two of Kentucky’s strictest abortion regulations. -
New information has been released about additional warrants served late last month in the ongoing criminal investigation of former Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel. They include allegations he and his associates were found with government surplus equipment given to the sheriff’s office, and that he used the jail’s commissary fund to pay the former Scott County sheriff for consulting work.
