The Smoking Gun drops in on Indianapolis:
Perhaps the next time Shawn Ayers and Nicholas Declouette decide to get, um, frisky, they will not do it in the middle of the day. In a '88 Oldsmobile. Parked in front of an Indianapolis day care center. Ayers, 31, and Declouette, 43, were arrested on public indecency charges when the day care center's operator called cops after spotting the couple getting busy in public.
Gotta love that PDA.
First we had the story of the county police officer asking that his wife's DUI case "be handled differently," and now we have this story of a supportive spouse:
The fight for the position of Bargersville clerk-treasurer turned dirty in the past week when a candidate's husband was arrested on a charge of stealing campaign signs belonging to his wife's opponent.
Remember how they tried to blast Gen. Noriega out of his compound by blaring loud rock music at him around the clock? This story is even better:
Transit workers are installing speakers this week to pump classical music from Seattle's KING-FM into the Tacoma Mall Transit Center. The tactic is designed to disperse young criminals who make drug deals at the bus stop or use public transportation to circulate between the mall and other trouble-prone places.
Wow. An illegal immigrant actually gets punished for breaking the law:
A Mexican national living in Indiana who has repeatedly returned to the United States after being deported will serve 62 months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States.
A touching love story that's set in Indiana and Kentucky. What's not to like?
OWENSBORO, Ky. -- An Indiana woman charged with helping her boyfriend escape after a triple murder is asking a judge to dismiss charges against her by validating a marriage license.
tHiS SeeMs lIKe tHe RiGhT dEcIsiOn:
Larry Cochran will never get the chance to face LARRY COCHRAN in court.
In a bizarre twisting of the notion of "capital" crimes, federal drug defendant Larry Cochran has apparently begun to annoy the judge presiding over his case.
Who could have guessed that this wouldn't work out?
They tell us he was steaming, but San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom shouldn't have been too surprised when The Chronicle reported that Golden Gate Park was littered with used drug syringes.
After all, his own Public Health Department spent $800,000 last year to help hand out some 2 million syringes to drug users under the city's needle exchange program -- sometimes 20 at a time.
When a police chase goes bad, it's always a big story, especially if an innocent bystander is hurt or killed. Such publicity has added to the pressure for various jurisdictions to tighten their chase policies. But there is another side to the story:
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - The two men in the silver Infiniti were pulled over only for having tinted windows - so when the driver hit the gas and fled, the state trooper had no choice but to let them speed away.
At least since "12 Angry men," the jury cliche has been the lone holdout for acquittal who stays stubborn and ultimately turns everyone else around. According to an IU study, there may be some truth to it:
A grand jury has declined to indict Dr. Anna Maria Pou in the deaths of nursing home patients during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. If I understand the story correctly, there isn't much doubt that painkiller-sedative cocktails were given to some of the patients. But was the intent really to kill people it was going to be difficult to get out? Or was it just to ease the suffering of people under extraordinarily dangerous circumstances?
