That courthouse attack in Tippecanoe County?
A rural Lafayette man accused of attacking a lawyer at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse after a civil court case last month has been charged with attempted murder, attempted aggravated battery and confinement.
Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charges in Tippecanoe Superior Court 1 against Russell A. Timmons, 48. The June 22 attack occurred outside Tippecanoe Superior Court 2.
Behind every drug-induced tragedy, there is someone providing the drugs, and it isn't always the pusher on the corner:
The chiseled professional wrestler suspected of last week's murder-suicide was prescribed a 10-month supply of steroids at least every four weeks, according to a federal indictment Monday of his Carrollton doctor.
I generally prefer local laws to state or federal ones, for the libertarianish reason that local lawmakers are closer to the people and presumably know local conditions better, and people have a greater ability to throw out officials who make bad laws. But I'm not sure about this:
GARY, Ind. — The city might ban people from talking on hand-held cell phones while driving, and, if passed, would make it one of the only Indiana communities with such a law.
The astonishing studies just keep coming:
Boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less time reading and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
But they said video games do not appear to interfere significantly with time spent with family and friends.
By God, it's about time America started kicking them furriners' butts:
NEW YORK—In a gut-busting showdown that combined drama, daring and indigestion, Joey Chestnut emerged Wednesday as the world's hot dog eating champion, knocking off six-time titlist Takeru Kobayashi in a rousing triumph.
A couple of Indiana University professors take the typical hardline establishment view of illegal immigration, i.e. that anyone who worries about it is an inhumane monster trying to deny basic human dignity. Even calling immigrants "illegal" instead of "undocumented" is an attempt to dehumanize them. One of them takes a pass at "birthright citizenship," the practice of granting citizenship to children of illegal immigrants born in this country:
We don't want to do anything too serious on our middle-of-the-week day off, so let's have us a YouTube holiday. First up, Homer Simpson shows us how to have a real fine BBQ pit.
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If you're gonna have a revolution, you have to offend somebody.
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You have to know how to have fun in the back yard.
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But remember that fireworks might upset your dog.
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Isn't this just outrageous?
President Bush's move to commute former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's 2 ½-prison term for lying and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case has drawn harsh criticism from Democrats who said the decision showed the administration's lack of accountability.
When I was a kid, I got pretty good at reading my dad and asking him for a lot more money than I really wanted, knowing I'd get the amount I'd decided on and he'd feel good about having taught me the virtues of frugal restraint. I suppose many kids do that. When I'm in a cynical mood, I ask, "How do you get $100 million out of taxpayers to fix up school buildings?" Scare them with a $500 million request first:
Wait! Here's a terrific idea. If our houses keep getting water in them, let's build them further from the water:
Builders and planners face a crackdown on siting new houses in flood plains, after thousands of people were driven from their homes and at least seven were killed in last week's downpours.
I may disagree with your characterization of that meat, sir, but I will defend to the death your right to so mischaracterize it:
PHILADELPHIA - In a case that involves issues as lofty as the First Amendment and as basic as which cut of meat was served, a restaurant critic is being sued for libel for describing a $15 piece of beef as "miserably tough and fatty."
The dumb, mean politics of angry Republicans/rightwing Christians/the Bush administration/the Supreme Court/most white people except enlightened ones like me are destroying the kind, tolerant society that once tried to help the downtrodden and cared about trying to find the wisdom to solve our most serious problems and make the world the kind of place it should be.
One of the frustrating aspects of illegal immigration is that people like Simon Rios aren't kicked out of the country, despite having been in trouble for drunken driving and spousal abuse before being accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old and murdering his whole family. And when authorities do go after someone, it frequently seems like someone they shouldn't go after, like the woman who came here as a young child and was always told she was a citizen. Then there is this guy:
No sardonic comment necessary, or possible:
NEW YORK - A peacock that roamed into the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant was attacked by a man who vilified the bird as a vampire, animal-control authorities said.
As dismaying as this is, it's probably no big shock:
The survey also found that, by a margin of nearly 3-to-1, Americans say the main purpose of marriage is the "mutual happiness and fulfillment" of adults rather than the "bearing and raising of children."
And you thought nothing could bring the world together:
Waving their arms in the air with 70,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, princes William and Harry celebrated the life of their mother, Princess Diana, on what would have been her 46th birthday Sunday at a concert they organized.
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Gee, do ya think?
The cigarette tax increase that takes effect today most likely will cause an influx of cheap bootleg cigarettes from Kentucky to flow into Indiana, experts predict.
Smaller, independent retailers are more likely to buy cigarettes in Kentucky and bring them back to sell to Hoosiers, Maj. Robin Poindexter of the State Excise Police said.
The immigration bill is dead, at least for now, and who would have thought it would be Bayh rather than Lugar who took the more conservative course?
Republican Sen. Richard Lugar voted for an unsuccessful effort to move the overhaul of immigration laws toward final passage while Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh voted with the majority against it.
This is a new one to me, culinary plagiarism:
Lower Manhattan, New York, which has long regarded itself as the world's ultimate trend factory, has spawned a new pastime that could spread like wildfire through America and beyond: suing over the culinary equivalent of plagiarism.
