Criminal genius of the week:
Evansville Police Department officers are looking for two individuals who allegedly stole three bottles of vodka from a West Side store Monday night.
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The employee also told police that she recognized one of the men from earlier this year when he filled out a job application there.
A budding Hoosier criminal genius:
A 16-year-old boy was charged Thursday as an adult after, police said, he brought a gun to school and revealed that in a posting on Facebook.
School officials said the teen had just begun going to Indianapolis Metropolitan High School, a charter school on West Michigan Street, in August.
Speaking of begging to be caught: This sounds almost like a regular job. "Sorry, Hon, can't have breakfast today; I'm late for the bank."
The 1st Source Bank on Mishawaka Avenue was robbed for the fourth time around 2 p.m. Wednesday, Police said.
Police then received a tip that the suspect was in an apartment at Autumn Lakes, a large apartment complex east of the Meijer on Bremen Highway.
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Add Andrew J. Miller to the list of politicians caught in high-risk sexual encounters.
So, three large plastic bundles of $20 bills totaling an estimated $3 million fell off an armored car in downtown Indianapolis, and the questions are: How many people tried to make off with as much cash as they could? And how many people tried to protect the cash until police could get there?
The answers are: A lot:
Just imitating a war hero shouldn't get anybody any jail time, but John Rodriguez deserves the 7 1/2 years he'll get for representing himself as a Marine with several presitigious medals, because he used the deception to profit fraudently:
The Supreme Court today will hear arguments in the case of the demented or evil (take your pick) Fred Phelps and his merry band of pranksters, who have graced Indiana among their visits to picket military funerals with their "God hates fags" and "Thank God for dead soldiers" signs. It is almost universally agreed among followers of all religious doctrines and across the political spectrum that the Westboro Baptist Church's actions are vile and despicable.
I did both a blog post and an editorial last week arguing that while it might have been a mistake in the new alcohol law to require carding everyone regardless of age, it might make sense just to leave it alone. The hassle created for old codgers and other regular customers is relatively insignificant, and there is a benefit in taking discretion from the store clerks and thus reducing the chance of mistakenly selling to minors.
A writer at The Nation Review's blog, The Corner, takes up the cause of congressional meddling in TV volume and lumps it in with the congressional ban of the incandescent light bulb and the federal government banning all-caps street signs and even dictating the font:
Must be true what they say about gambling -- the house always wins. At least you couldn't disprove it by the Indiana Supreme Court:
A pair of Indiana Supreme Court decisions issued Thursday bolstered the right of Indiana casinos to ban card counters and rejected a problem gambler's effort to recover $125,000 in losses.
