This will not end well:
SEATTLE
Speaking of begging to be caught: This sounds almost like a regular job. "Sorry, Hon, can't have breakfast today; I'm late for the bank."
The 1st Source Bank on Mishawaka Avenue was robbed for the fourth time around 2 p.m. Wednesday, Police said.
Police then received a tip that the suspect was in an apartment at Autumn Lakes, a large apartment complex east of the Meijer on Bremen Highway.
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The Fort Wayne Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved an agreement with the state that will allow the city to move ahead with a plan to replace 57 pedestrian crossing signals downtown with “countdown” signals. Instead of a walk or don't-walk signal, the new signals will display, like a countdown, the number of seconds left to cross the street.
These dummies are begging to be caught:
Authorities in northern Indiana are warning residents to be on the lookout for counterfeit money.
The South Bend Tribune reports that police there have been alerted to a string of fake $100 and $20 bills. The phony bills have been found in the cash registers of gas stations and stores over the past two weeks.
I know how he feels:
Wonder which side will be the most freaked out about this?
It has seemed that TV ads might have dumbed down political campaigns as far as they could go. That was a mistaken belief:
Twitter has allowed for another avenue for campaigns to communicate with voters, but it's also created a new venue for staffers to talk smack.
In advance of tonight's U.S. Senate debate in Indianapolis, staffers backing Republican Dan Coats and Democrat Brad Ellsworth have exchanged barbs via the site.
At least the candidates weren't outnumbered:
The candidate forum at North Side High School on Monday night was almost as big a draw for candidates as for voters. About 75 people showed up; 30 were candidates seeking office in next month's election, and another three candidates sent representatives.
At least these 40 people could show up as informed voters on election day. Thank goodness for small blessings.
Higher education news of the day:
On the campus of Indiana State a new program is turning food into fertilizer. Videographer Mika Brown had the chance to show us how the process works.
Not the best way to build trust between the peasants and the masters officials and the governed:
COLUMBUS, Ind. — A button installed in each office of Bartholomew County Governmental Office Building will link workers there with police.
County Commissioners on Monday agreed to spend $8,271 to install buttons in 15 rooms, including offices and meeting halls.
For the well-duh file. USA Today and Gallup discover that 22 percent at one end of the spectrum want government out of their lives and 20 percent at the other end endorse ever-expansive government, and most people in the middle "endorse government activism on a range of issues . . . but doubt the competence of government to deliver results effectively and efficiently."
OK, everybody tell me how heartless I am, but I don't get the "anger" this is supposedly generating:
As if voters don't have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits.
Despite the savings realized by the changes the East Allen County Schools board recently approved, the district says it needs $8 million a year more to meet all its financial needs, so it's seeking that it a referendum. What are the chances it will pass? Just going by the statistics, slightly less than 50 percent:
Good time for 40 winks:
Indiana State University Provost C. Jack Maynard nodded off for 15 minutes of a 20-minute presentation Friday that preceded the ISU Board of Trustees meeting.
Presentations about matters of importance to ISU routinely precede the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees.
Guess even the Nobel Peace Prize committee can get one right once in a while:
I hope to be the last victim of China's endless literary inquisition, and that after this no one else will ever be jailed for their speech.
Freedom of expression is the basis of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth. To block freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, to strangle humanity and to suppress the truth.
My favorite cartoon of the week, because it's both true and not political:
Bah, humbug. Scientists in Britain have done a study showing that age 52 is when adults become "more grumpy than happy":
It is then that both men and women begin to suffer a sharp decline in their sense of humour and get increasingly grumpy, according to scientists at the University of Glamorgan.
Add Andrew J. Miller to the list of politicians caught in high-risk sexual encounters.
A middle school principal sneaks up on the truth about "No Child Left Behind":
These social issues do not stop at the school doors, so we must ask: Are we expecting our schools to educate? Or are we expecting them to educate after fixing the social ills that contribute directly to our education ills?
