If you heard that a state legislator was offering a new provision on highway safety, how many guesses would you need to name him?
A state lawmaker is drafting legislation that would ban young motorists from sending text messages on their cell phones while they're driving because of the heightened risk of crashes involving distracted motorists.
The line just keeps getting longer. Two Indiana congressmen want Washington to remember that cars aren't the only things on the road:
This former policeman got off way too easy:
A former policeman who admitted he shook down Hispanic motorists in Westfield received a sentence Thursday of one year on home detention.
Scott Fross, 38, had pleaded guilty to bribery. He could have received a sentence of up to eight years, according to the Hamilton County prosecutor's office.
Congratulations to state leaders, who seem able to recognize a crisis long enough to set aside partisan differences. Though a recent fit of fiscal responsibility has left Indiana better prepared than most, everybody seems to agree with Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels that even deeper spending cuts are needed. And there is this reassurance:
I understand what Gov. Daniels was trying to say about the government meddling in the automobile business. Stupid regulations are already part of the problem with American auto companies trying to compete in the marketplace, and it's a little frightening to think of all the new mischief Congress might come up with. But I think he went a little too far:
USA Today makes the current economic crisis personal and understandable by visiting a quaint little town where the simple folk are dazed by the goings on:
KOKOMO, Ind. — Ever since Elwood Haynes revved his horseless carriage up to 7 mph on the Pumpkinvine Pike in 1894, this has been a car town. It calls itself "City of Firsts," site of the first American gas-powered car, the first carburetor, the first pneumatic tire, the first push-button car radio.
Remember "My country right or wrong"? Isn't "Buy American" the same sort of thing? Never mind how bad the product might be or how expensive it is, it's your patriotic duty to choose it over that evil foreign product. But it's not always that easy:
For example, some Ford Focus automobiles are actually produced south of the border, at a factory in Mexico, and Nissan Altimas are built right here in the United States - in Tennessee.
They never learn, do they?
Westfield » For three months, no new development will occur in the city's downtown, pending the outcome of a long-awaited presentation set for next week.
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An innovative approach to keeping kids out of trouble:
Inmates at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility hope their performance of Shakespeare adaptations will help at-risk kids stay out of prison.
Inmates in the Shakespeare in Shackles program recently adapted and performed scenes from "Romeo and Juliet" to highlight the violent society Romeo lived in and the consequences of his choices.
This is one of the most shocking crime stories I've seen in a while:
Police say a Muncie woman was arrested after asking a state trooper whether she could smoke -- and then trying to light up a marijuana joint.
Thirty-two-year-old Honesty Knight was a passenger in a vehicle that Trooper Eric Perkins pulled over for a traffic violation early Friday. While the trooper was talking to the driver, Knight obtained the trooper's permission to smoke.
