You know, sometimes having those drug parties at home just gets old, so you want to go and get a motel room. So what if you have a 9-year-old kid? Just lock him in one room and party in another. But, oops:
The nine-year-old boy told the clerk at the Econo Lodge in Richwood, Kentucky he tried calling, then banged on the door of his parents room for three hours, but no one answered.
Jack McClellan has been arrested, and his case is a striking example of how we can so screw up the law. He's the spooky dirtbag who has operated a Web site that told pedophiles where to find young kids, how to stalk them, how to avoid detection. But that's not what he was charged with. After gaining notoriety in Washington for his Web site, he relocated to California, where a judge issued a ridiculous restraining order against him: Never be within 30 feet of a child in this state.
I'll be writing an editorial for tomorrow's paper on the nine-count indictment of Republican mayoral candidate Matt Kelty. But a few preliminary thoughts:
Robert Spencer, the truck driver in the Taylor crash, has been given four years in prison, but that's not what he'll serve:
A judge sentenced him to eight years total but suspended 4 of them, which would be served on probation. A prosecutor says with time already served including time for good behavior, he will be eligible for release in about a year.
I don't know. One year for five lives. On the other hand, his crime was falling asleep at the wheel. What do you think?
If you're nabbed talking on your hand-held cell phone while driving in Chicago, you get a $50 ticket. But people are routinely ignoring the law. Guess why:
Aren't Chicago Police supposed to be handing out $50 tickets?
Apparently, they have been, but not too often.
Kenneth Foster Jr. is scheduled to be executed in Texas later this month for a murder everybody agrees he didn't do. In fact, the man who did commit the murder has already been executed for it. The case is being cited by capital punishment opponents as obvious miscarriage of justice:
One way to avoid troubles with a union is to not have employees, the strategy FedEx is using to compete with UPS. Naturally, the union will fight back, as the Teamsters are doing. The case is being heard in South Bend, and a loss would be bad news for FedEx:
First it was that woman who spilled the criminally hot coffee on herself. Now there is this. McDonald's is apparently out to kill us all:
MORGANTOWN - A Monongalia County man is seeking $10 million from McDonald's after an employee put cheese on his sandwich.
The Matt Kelty grand jury is heading to its third day of deliberation, and either way it turns out, it's a big story, isn't it? If there is a recommendation to charge him with a campaign-finance-reporting violation, the talk will be about whether he should drop out of the mayor's race and who might replace him if he does. If the conclusion is that no violation occurred, we have to acknowledge that there is a big loophole in state law.
A lot of people are having fun with the Dateline NBC producer who was so clueless about how to go undercover:
Dateline NBC associate producer Michelle Madigan was heckled and derided as she ran from DefCon, the world's largest computer hackers conference, and raced away in a car.
