A clerk at Wesselman's on Fulton Avenue had an encounter with a shoplifter who had a taste for suds and cough syrup Wednesday night.

She called police a little after 9 p.m. when a man wearing a striped shirt, shorts and a baseball cap walked into the store and began removing items from the shelves.  The clerk said the man grabbed two bottles of beer and stuffed them in his pants, then made his way to the medicine aisle where he picked up a bottle of Robitussin and put it down his trousers as well.

An Evansville man is in jail following a police chase over the weekend.

It began just before 1 a.m. Sunday morning in the 1300 block of West Maryland.

According to a police report, officers were responding to a domestic dispute at Apollo Liquors and when they arrived, the suspect, 30-year-old Richard Anthony Petrig took off.

A building at the Evansville Junior Football League grounds on Barker Ave. was broken into sometime between the middle of last week and Monday afternoon.  It's the third time the property has been the victim of a break-in.

Police were called after someone arrived Monday afternoon to mow the grass and noticed the storage building made of concrete blocks on the southwest corner of the property had been broken into.