One of my fellow native Kentuckians behaving badly, commiting a little assault and breastery:
A Kentucky woman was charged with assault after she allegedly squirted breast milk into the face of a deputy, sparking online debate Sunday in the local media.
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Lock and load, boys and girls:
Most Hoosiers could take a gun to work as long as the weapon is stored out of sight in a locked vehicle, under legislation enacted Thursday to the delight of gun-rights advocates and the alarm of Indiana businesses.
At least 12 other states, including Kentucky, have passed similar legislation.
Another astounding finding from the Well, Duh Institute:
Men become accident prone at the sight of a beautiful woman, scientists said yesterday.
Research shows that just looking at an attractive female makes them more likely to indulge in 'physical risk-taking' which results in embarrassing failure or even injury.
Just hanging around, waiting for federal dollars. That'll be just what we need. Oops. Didn't get the high-speed rail money we were hoping for. It's pretty much a fool's dream anyway, some say:
A Kentucky man who lost big in Indiana adds a new twist to the "I'm a gambling addict and the casino should have stopped me" argument:
A gambler lost $75,000 at the former Caesars Casino in Indiana back in 2004, and now he is fighting to have the debt wiped out. Jimmy L. Vance, from Indiana, has sued the casino, claiming they took advantage of his drunk state.
Jasmine Watson is already at the Univeristy of Massachusetts and apparently having a good freshman year, but the Indiana High School Athletic Association case involving her is still alive. When her parents moved from Elkhart to South Bend, the IHSAA ruled her ineligible to play for South Bend Washington because she moved "for athletic reasons," a violation of IHSAA rules. But a court bought her parents' argument that they moved for economic reasons.
There's an interesting dispute going on in the Danville school system, where parents are complaining about the grading scale being too tough. They say they aren't trying to dumb down the schools, but their children are at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to getting into college and that the school system should use the same grading scale as most of the schools around them:
Back in 2003, you may recall, our own Mark Souder got a lot of publicity in trying to get Ronald Reagan's likeness on the dime.
Sounds like a good plan to me:
"For us to start over now could simply lead to delays that could last for another decade or even more," President Obama said.
In fact, let's go for the "even more" part. After the Clinton health care plan crashed and burned, we managed to keep this massive growth in government at bay for a decade and a half.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the McDonald case yesterday challenging Chicago's handgun ban. Early indications are that the ruling will be good news for Second Amendment supporters:
The Postal Service wants to make drastic changes in its operation, including ending Saturday deliveries, with what can be fairly described as an overly optimistic goal:
They must be feeling particularly unloved at Elmhurst High School these days. Back in 2006, Fort Wayne Community Schools unveiled an array of proposals to renovate all of its schools, from a relatively modest $200 million plan to a staggering $1 billion one. And every single one included as a component closing Elmhurst. Now, the school system is forced to reduce spending, and Elmhurst is put on the closing list again:
It's too bad the stall of a $10 billion bill was engineered by someone with as nasty a personality as Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning. So much of the coverage was focused on the "meanness" of his actions that the underlying point has been all but missed. It was just last month (while, by the way, the debt ceiling was increased to a record $1.9 trillion) that Congress reinstated "pay-go" rules requiring any new spending plans to be offset by equivalent cuts somewhere else.
How many times do you get to screw up and still keep your job?
Officer Scott Morales is walking on thin ice after his latest violation.
Police Chief Rusty York says he suspended Morales for five days without pay for problems with "alertness on duty."
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While the offense may not be a major one, it further tarnished the record of the 19-year veteran, who has now been suspended for the 14th time since 1991.
See, that wasn't so hard, was it?
Homeless people who are living beneath a railroad overpass on Indianapolis' near-east side will be evicted on Monday, three days after Mayor Greg Ballard toured the camp.
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Deputy Mayor Robert Vane said the city is not being cold-hearted, but simply putting the safety of area citizens first.
Unless something surprising happens, it looks like U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth, who represents the Evansville area, will be the Democratic replacement for Evan Bayh in the U.S. Senate race. He campaigns as a centrist and says Congress taxes and spends "wildly and furiously. We need to watch your dime like we all watch our own dime." But then he says, about health care reform:
Hoo, boy, nobody I'd rather meet on the road early on Monday morning than a bunch of liquored-up Colts fans:
The provision on Sunday bar hours would allow establishments to remain open until 3 a.m. instead of the current 12:30 a.m., a change motivated by Colts games that have ended late on Sunday nights.
Now that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has opened the door on a presidential run "just a tiny crack," people are trying to stick their feet in and open that door a little wider.
Sorry, Brian, I'm with Pat and Dave on this one:
Indiana House Minority Leader Brian Bosma says it's more important to pass sound bills on key issues than it is to adjourn the legislative session.
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Democratic House Speaker Patrick Bauer of South Bend wants to adjourn by Thursday.
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So does the state need an "upskirting" law, or is state Sen. Tom Wyss just going to clutter up the legal code with an "offense" that can already be handled by existing statutes? Last year, Wyss decided the state needed to specifically prohibit the practice of using a video camera (usually attached to a shoe) to look up women's dresses.
