Hoosier lore

Indiana's curfew law has been declared invalid and reworked so many times that most people probably don't know whether we even have one or not. We do (so far). Fishers is working to bring its curfew law in line with the state's, and Plymouth is working to make its even stricter than the state's.

Do we have to forgive juvenile misdeeds because the juveniles in question haven't been taught any better, or is it all right to call this kid a monster?

Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with the January shooting death of a horse in Franklin Township.

Be careful whom you go off on -- anybody is liable to be carrying a recorder these days:

The parents of a New Albany kindergarten student who secretly recorded his teacher making what the parents say were abusive comments told their story to a national TV audience today.

It's nice to know that at least one sector of the state's economy isn't contracting:

Lafayette employees working at City Hall on Columbia Street are so in need of more space, the city is considering buying a building down the street.

City officials are examining buying a building at 515 Columbia St. in downtown Lafayette because it could add much needed office, storage and meeting space. Plus, the building is close to City Hall.

It's been a few years since the General Assembly voted against a pilot program for red-light cameras in 10 Indiana cities, but the idea just won't die. Lafayette is the latest city to consider the cameras:

The Lafayette Police Department wants to have cameras installed at as many as ten intersections throughout the city.  Sergeant Max Smith said after seeing the results from a 24 hour test camera at Kossuth and Main Streets, a "camera cop" is needed.

Remember when Toledo's mayor freaked out about Marines training there and canceled the invitation because the city's residents might be a'skert of all those soldiers running around downtown? Indianapolis' mayor shows a little more class

:The Marines will land for two weeks of situational training. The expeditionary force of 2,300 troops will fire weapons, conduct patrols and react to ambushes in an unfamiliar urban environment.  

Scum of the earth:

The weekend when America commemorates its war dead is a horrible time for a cemetery to be vandalized, but that's what happened at the Leo Cemetery late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

Thirty-five headstones were overturned, and Rich Lengacher, president of the cemetery's board of trustees, said repairing them will cost thousands of dollars. Most of those that were cracked are about 100 years old.

Well, that didn't work out too well:

DARMSTADT, Ind. - As World War I neared its end, a group of German immigrants weary of the war planted a linden tree seedling in southwestern Indiana, declaring it the "peace tree."

Ninety years later, the tree has grown into a large shade tree that's tended by Charles and Beth Skeels, who live in an 1880s farmhouse on the property where the tree was planted in 1918.

Stiffed by a Clinton

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is now $20 million in debt and some of her unpaid bills are in Indiana.

Clinton's biggest Indiana debt is owed to Indiana University where the Democratic candidate for president spoke at Assembly Hall on April 25.

According to a filing with the Federal Election Commission made this week, her campaign owes I.U. over $19,000. But the university said that's just part of the bill.

I frequently go to Google News and do a search on "Indiana" to see what's happening around the state. Occasionally, an "Indiana Jones" story shows up -- about one or two for every 50 entries or so. But in the last few days, as you might imagine, I've had to wade through dozens of Jones entries just to get a few good "Indiana" hits. Sometimes, even the stories that seem to be about our state really aren't