Should there be a price to pay for being stupid?
LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Two brothers rescued from a rain-swollen stream after an ill-advised journey in an inflatable raft without oars or life jackets may have to repay the cost of their rescue if Tippecanoe County's sheriff gets his way.
Sheriff Tracy Brown said he's considering asking the Lafayette brothers to reimburse his department for about $1,000 spent in man hours on Tuesday night's rescue from Wildcat Creek.
The right to give a good whuppin' is upheld:
The Indiana Supreme Court has reversed a woman's 2006 battery conviction for whipping her 11-year-old son with a belt or extension cord, holding that she was reasonably exercising parental discipline.
In a 4-1 decision, the court ruled that Sophia Willis' use of discipline did not cross the line into criminal conduct.
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For Indiana's favorite bleeding-heart columnist, the Indianapolis Star's Dan Carpenter, it probably doesn't get any better than this -- he gets to disparage the military, stick up for the poor, downtrodden homelesss and stick it to less-enlighted Hoosiers, all in the same column:
Well, they're paying attention to what happens in flyover country now, aren't they?
Raging floodwaters that have swallowed homes, bridges and roads across the Midwest this week now threaten to stunt the region's economy and raise already heightened food prices.
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The Joseph Decuis restaurant in Roanoke gets a nice writeup in the Star for its American version of Kobe beef, for which the restaurant owners keep their own herd of Japanese Wagyu cattle:
What has come to be called American Wagyu is typically a cross between Japanese Wagyu and black or red Angus.
You'd think there wouldn't be a single legislator stupid enough to accept this offer:
Only days after cash tolls nearly doubled on the Indiana Toll Road, the private company that manages the road had a money-saving offer for state lawmakers: a free ride.
Most legislators said no thanks.
Pay no attention to that funny-looking dog with the strange bark:
A Fortville couple think town officials are unfairly harassing them over two goats kept in the family's backyard.
Joshua and Sarah Brown keep one of the goats for its milk. The other is a companion for the first goat. Both are female.
Are you glad to see Hillary gone or sorry that we don't have her to kick around anymore?
Now that Hillary Clinton has ended her bid for the presidency, political journalists are suddenly deprived of one of their favorite stories: When is she going to drop out?
Indiana was ahead of the nation for a change!
Drivers are paying an average of $4 for a gallon of gasoline for the first time. AAA and the Oil Price Information Service say the national average price for a gallon of regular gas rose to $4.005 overnight from $3.988.
I bought gas last week when the price had fallen to $3.80-something a gallon, and I noticed yesterday it was back up to $3.98 or .99 a gallon. I wept with joy.
Isn't this, as the Star's "expert" contends, a blatant case of over-charging?
A legal expert on Tuesday questioned prosecutors' decision to charge an Indianapolis man with murder in the death of an IndyCar Series crew member who suffered a stroke after a bar fight.
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