Man, even the thieves are feeling this gas-price crisis:
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Police are holding one of two men who allegedly rode up to a vehicle, demanded money from the driver and fled on bicycles.
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According to a probable cause affidavit, a motorist told authorities he was approached by two men on bicycles at a stop sign Saturday.
Dancing is considered an art, so when Iowa enacted a law aimed at curbing strip clubs, it provided an exception for dancing in "art centers." Along comes a 17-yeard-old girl, who happens to be the niece of the sheriff, who decides to get up stage and strip at a place called Shotgun Geniez in Hamburg. The club's owner has been charged with violating the state's indecent exposure law:
Indiana Code 34-7-7 is intended to protect the free-speech rights of those commenting on "matters of public interest." Say someone accuses a cop of wrongdoing, and officials decide to investigate, and a newspaper reports the allegations and the investigation. The investigation finds the accusation was baseless, and the accuser is in turn charged with false reporting, and the newspaper reports that, too.
Sometimes we forget what monsters sexual predators are. This creep from Muncie makes it easy to remember:
Authorities said Dyer took his daughter and two of her friends, ages 15 and 12, to the Best Western motel, 3011 W. Bethel Ave., on March 27, 2006, purportedly so the girls could enjoy the facility's swimming pool.
Not that I think these Democrats would be in favor of any immigration action that would result in any punishment for illegals, but they have a point here:
The Nanny State marches on:
A proposal that would place at least a one-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a broad swath of neighborhoods, mostly in South Los Angeles, won unanimous support from a Los Angeles City Council committee Tuesday.
Here's a first. I find myself agreeing with part of a Dan Carpenter column:
Knowing there's little risk of ruining that going concern, mayors and other elected officials nevertheless join with business leaders, clergy, sports figures and such to declare war on crime once and for all, as if it might form itself into a single giant Satanic entity that could be driven out of town by combined moral force. Or perhaps a hill to be taken by the Marines.
If you spot Dustin Smith, 27, who escaped from the Edinburgh Correctional Facility, be sure to call authorities. You can't miss him, really:
This week's nominees for the Eighth Circle of Hell (the Seventh is for the merely violent:
Indianapolis police have received reports that one or more people have been going door to door in Indianapolis soliciting money for an injured officer
OK, God works in mysterious ways, but a bullet-proof watermelon?
Police later showed Thompson the path the bullet took through her car. She now believes that path was guided by God.
