The chain-reaction accident in which two dump trucks hit a school bus, killing four special-needs children, apparently started all because of this slug:
According to The Cass County Sheriff office, the dump truck that hit the school bus swerved to miss a motor scooter ridden by Raymond Gust. Gust had slowed to turn into his driveway off U.S. 24, forcing the dump truck to try to avoid him.
The city is busy making patches to keep its Harrison Square deal from falling apart and trying to recover from the has it hash made of the public safety academy. In the meantime, it is flunking the fundamentals by losing a neighborhood:
Who knew? Sheep aren't people:
The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that a Battle Creek man who was convicted of sodomizing a sheep will not have to register as a sex offender when he is released from prison.
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Criminal genius of the week:
A text-messaged picture led to the arrest of a Perry Meridian High School student who confessed to and apologized for vandalizing a rival high school, police said.
Investigators said the 15-year-old student, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, found an open door at Franklin Central High School in an area that is under construction.
How would you like to be seated in a restaurant booth and have an SUV come crashing in on you? Greenfield police have released the video of a high-speed chase that ended with such a crash. "Me and the cook, we look at each other and run out and they're like 'Down, down.' " I'm like OK, you were scared, huh?
PLAINFIELD, Ind. -- Blue Obama for President signs began to sprout in Plainfield lawns Monday night even before the Town Council voted not to enforce time limits on political signs before the Nov. 4 election.
Faced with a federal lawsuit claiming the town's ordinance on political signs is a violation of free speech, the council passed a 90-day moratorium on enforcement of the controversial part of the ordinance.
The headline on this story -- "Retailers Split Over Sunday Alcohol Sales" is a little misleading, and the first paragraph is more so:
Opposition to a push for Indiana to repeal its long-standing ban on Sunday alcohol sales may come from an unexpected source, a newspaper reported: liquor stores.
A woman lost $125,000 at Caesar's on the Ohio River and wrote bad checks to cover the losses. When the casino sued her, she countersued, saying the casino knew she had a compulsive gambling disorder and that by inviting her to the riverboard and paying for her hotel, it "unfairly enticed her to gamble."
But Caesar's attorney Gene Price said that the casino staff intervenes when a customer appears to have a problem and participates in a state-mandated voluntary exclusion list on which Kephart did not appear.
Dang, sorry I missed this. Bars here have such tame stuff:
The liquor license for a Canton business will be suspended for 60 days because two women wrestled topless at a recent "midget wrestling event."
The penalty is substantial, Mayor Kevin Meade said after the city liquor commission voted unanimously Wednesday to suspend the license for Outskirts Bar and Grill at 725 W. Locust St.
Reason magazine faults Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and, especially, Sarah Palin, for continuing to favor criminal penalties for something they get to treat as a youthful indiscretion:
