Criminal genius of the week:
A Terre Haute man accused of snatching $17 out of the hands of a young lemonade stand operator on Monday faced a judge Tuesday on allegations of felony robbery.
Steve Tryon, 18, told police his friends put him up to taking the money from the 11-year-old girl, whose stand was at Deming and Center streets. The 11-year-old and a 12-year-old girl were selling lemonade there.
They may not have invented the political gravy train in The Region, but they sure know how to ride that thing:
GARY, Ind. - City officials are considering whether to stop allowing city employees, including police officers, to take cars home in a cost-cutting move. But Mayor Rudy Clay isn't ready to give up his city-leased Hummer.
Another meaningless gesture:
Now he takes a Transpo bus to work each day.
"We need to send a message, not only to oil companies, but to the state saying that these taxes are ridiculous on gas," he said.
Not everyone may be ready to take such a stand.
But the Indiana Department of Environmental Management is hoping many Hoosiers will at least consider walking or biking Thursday for Dump the Pump Day.
I like this idea:
Evansville's One Book One Community program — which for the past six years encouraged Tri-Staters to read a particular best-seller before listening to the author speak — is going in a very different, very personal direction this year.
Veterans seeking treatment at VA medical facilities would be reimbursed for gas mileage at the same rate as federal employees under a bill sponsored by U.S. Reps. Mark Souder and Brad Ellsworth.
The Veterans Travel Equity Act, to be introduced Tuesday, would also eliminate all income and pension eligibility requirements and service-connected disability rating requirements to qualify for the mileage reimbursement.
Well, give him time, for Pete's sake. He just got there:
WASHINGTON -- Indiana's newest member of Congress is also one of the delegation's poorest, according to House members' financial disclosure statements released Monday.
This editorial says the Electoral College is bad because it disenfranchises some voters. If John McCain wins Indiana (as the paper assumes), it means "a Hoosier vote for Obama essentially won't count." That's a pretty lame argument -- anyone who votes for the losing candidate, no matter what system is used, has that vote rendered meaningless.
Ever think we're maybe going too far in asking not to be bothered?
INDIANAPOLIS - A dispute over whether a state law can ban prerecorded telephone calls in political races is about to be in the hands of the Indiana Supreme Court.
The justices were scheduled to hear arguments Monday over a lawsuit by the state attorney general's office against a Washington, D.C., group that made the so-called "robo" calls during a 2006 Indiana congressional campaign.
There might be a campaign dispute out there somewhere that is stupider and lamer than the one being carried on by the Third District congressional candidates, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it would be:
With the national average of a gallon of gas well over four dollars, Democrat Mike Montagano says his Republican opponent in Washington is partly to blame. But, now the way he went about showing that is being questioned.
