Don't let 'em get your goat. Oops, too late:
Fortville » The Town Council has given a local couple 15 days to get rid of two goats they keep as pets in their backyard.
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"I just believe liberty and freedom are no longer part of life in Fortville if the police can come and take away pets not prohibited by law," Sarah Brown said. "If there's no law, where do they get the authority?"
Never bring a pretend bomb to a gunfight:
An attempted bank robbery in Canton played out like a scene from a movie Monday when a man who police say claimed to have a bomb was stopped by a customer armed with a pistol.
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Fawzi, who spent six years in the Lebanese army, took matters into his own hands.
The State Board of Accounts, the Indiana Supreme Court and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles all want to see a copy of Hammond's red-light-camera ordinance, and they're all concerned about the same provision:
Tickets will be issued through the mail by the private company operating the system after a review by police. By ordinance, fines of $100 will be assessed and treated like parking tickets unless contested, when they become moving violations.
Criminal genius of the week:
A Terre Haute man accused of snatching $17 out of the hands of a young lemonade stand operator on Monday faced a judge Tuesday on allegations of felony robbery.
Steve Tryon, 18, told police his friends put him up to taking the money from the 11-year-old girl, whose stand was at Deming and Center streets. The 11-year-old and a 12-year-old girl were selling lemonade there.
Don't ever think Paul Helmke will stop going after our guns (especially if he gets Barack "reasonable controls" Obama as an ally in the White House). He just thinks losing in real court will eventually help him in the court of public opinion:
Ever think we're maybe going too far in asking not to be bothered?
INDIANAPOLIS - A dispute over whether a state law can ban prerecorded telephone calls in political races is about to be in the hands of the Indiana Supreme Court.
The justices were scheduled to hear arguments Monday over a lawsuit by the state attorney general's office against a Washington, D.C., group that made the so-called "robo" calls during a 2006 Indiana congressional campaign.
The right to give a good whuppin' is upheld:
The Indiana Supreme Court has reversed a woman's 2006 battery conviction for whipping her 11-year-old son with a belt or extension cord, holding that she was reasonably exercising parental discipline.
In a 4-1 decision, the court ruled that Sophia Willis' use of discipline did not cross the line into criminal conduct.
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For Indiana's favorite bleeding-heart columnist, the Indianapolis Star's Dan Carpenter, it probably doesn't get any better than this -- he gets to disparage the military, stick up for the poor, downtrodden homelesss and stick it to less-enlighted Hoosiers, all in the same column:
So who's guilty of pushing obscene material here?
LOS ANGELES - What violates community obscenity standards in the nation's reputed pornography capital? Federal prosecutors think they have a case.
