Gibson County's unemployment rate frell from 7.5% in March to 6.6% in April according to figures released Friday by the Department of Workforce Development.  Like most of the Tri-State, jobless claims in the county are far lower than the rest of the state.  

Overall, Indiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percent to 8.5 percent in April, the largest one month decrease in over a year. Private sector employment in the Hoosier state also increased by 6,800 jobs over the past month and exceeded the national rate of growth. Indiana has now experienced private sector employment growth in 37 of the past 40 months. 

PRINCETON, IN (WFIE)- HWC Engineering says the first project to get underway this summer will be the senior housing cottages in a Stellar Grant follow-up.

It will be a $6-mllion project with 60-units. The theater and storefront projects were also talked about but they have a later start date.

"Come this fall, we'll actually start building some things and then we'll be building things for the next three construction season and by the time we are done, we are going to do $22-million worth of work," says Jim Rice.

A second grade teacher at Lowell North Elementary School received a $1,000 surprise on Thursday.

Jill Wright won the Peabody Leaders in Education award for being an outstanding teacher. Wright was nominated for the award and was then pushed to send in a formal application.