Clearly, this story is too good to pass up, but I'm not quite sure whether to be serious or take the frivolous route:
A girl accused of exposing her breasts on an Indianapolis street cannot argue that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution gives her the freedom to do it, the state's appeals court ruled today.
Today's lesson in interpersonal relationships. Good hoax:
Casey Affleck wants to come clean.
About a dozen people in Indianapolis whipped out knives and started stabbing at each other, and five of them were injured:
The incident was apparently spurred by a parking dispute, police said.
"There's been a disturbance here on this street, by this house, for the last two nights prior to tonight, apparently over a parking dispute," said Indianapolis police Sgt. Paul Thompson. "We believe that is also the motive for tonight's disturbance."
South Bend police have been conducting raids of drinking parties and arresting underage drinkers and taking them to jail, which has many in the Notre Dame community wondering if police are being unfair:
The discussions have been productive, but questions remain about whether police are being tougher on students than in the past and taking them to jail rather than giving them written citations.
I noted in a post yesterday Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's views on having a "pragmatic" view of the Constitution. Guess this is what he meant:
But Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told me on “GMA” that he's not prepared to conclude that — in the internet age — the First Amendment condones Koran burning.
So it's not just texting while driving by teens that we have to worry about:
An Elkhart teen is in critical condition after police say he was texting and biking and swerved into oncoming traffic.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is one of the court's "living document" adherents rather than one of the originalist members. In his new book "Making Democracy Work," he calls it "pragmatism."
Indiana is said to be killing some of its residents with soot:
An environmental group's national report said pollution from Indiana's coal-fired power plants will cause an estimated 550 premature deaths in the state this year.
The report from the Clean Air Task Force ranked Indiana fifth in the U.S. in per capita mortality risk from pollutants that create lung-choking soot. The elderly and people with respiratory disease are most susceptible to such pollution.
As someone with libertarian instincts, I probably have some survivalist in me. Sometimes I feel like just getting off the grid, hanging out in the wilderness beyond the reach of government. It never occurred to me, though, to stay in society and merely pretend the forces around me, like the law of the land, didn't apply to me:
The videotaping-cops controversy comes to Indiana:
SOUTH BEND — The recent arrest of a University of Notre Dame student for allegedly fighting with police after trying to videotape a crime scene has raised questions about the legality of recording crime events.
Police say it is increasingly common for people to videotape crime scenes, especially as cell phones and pocket-sized camcorders become more popular.
