The videotaping-cops controversy comes to Indiana:
SOUTH BEND — The recent arrest of a University of Notre Dame student for allegedly fighting with police after trying to videotape a crime scene has raised questions about the legality of recording crime events.
Police say it is increasingly common for people to videotape crime scenes, especially as cell phones and pocket-sized camcorders become more popular.
Criminal genius of the week:
A woman on probation for drunken driving was arrested when she showed up intoxicated to a court-ordered DUI awareness event, police said.
Kristen Hudson, 26, of Edinburgh, smelled of alcohol and was slurring her words when she arrived at the Advocates Against Impaired Driving panel Tuesday evening, police said.
This is a strange one. From an Indiana University new release (full report is here -- pdf file):
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Cigarette use by Indiana sixth through 12th graders continued to decline, but findings from the 20th Annual Survey of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use also pointed to increases in marijuana use and in tobacco use in pipes.
Boy, bet they'd really freak out over North Side Redskins:
SOUTH BEND — The Saint Joseph's High School Indians could be getting a new mascot.
Vince LaBarbera, spokesman for the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, confirmed Tuesday that a meeting will soon take place between Mark Myers, superintendent of schools for the diocese, the principal of the high school and Brian Collier, a local Native American historian who initiated the talk.
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To be discussed, he said, is the appropriateness of the mascot.
If you're an older adult planning on emulating the lieutenant govenor and going back to college for that degree, good luck on getting help from the state:
After two decades of consistent growth, adult students -- defined by most educators as those 25 and up -- are now the majority in Indiana.
This story lost me at the very first sentence:
Richard M. Daley's 21-year run as mayor will end next spring with the city broadly reshaped by his vision and unprecedented grip on power, but with his image as Chicago's sure-handed leader increasingly challenged.
I think The Journal Gazette's editorial page has discovered a new sin to pin on conservatives: hypocrisy by association. The JG doesn't think much of efforts by a local group to have Allen County Superior Court Judge Ken Scheibenberger thrown off the November ballot:
I've always admired people who are willing to pick themselves up time after time and still try to make something productive out of their lives, no matter how far down they are or how late in life they start the effort:
South Bend firefighter Jordan Jostes is being fired for having a knife at work, and we're talking Crocodile Dundee ("Now, THIS is a knife") proportions:
Jostes, in a written report filed a few days after the knife was discovered, wrote he brought the knife because the duty manual banned firearms and he wanted to have something available for self-defense.
Is Evan Bayh looking smart for getting out so early, or what? A video from "Morning Joe:
