Here's your Wednesday morning eye-opener!
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (CN) - A man claims a Lawrenceburg police officer had him forcibly catheterized to obtain a urine sample because the officer suspected him of drunken driving. Jamie Lockard claims he was restrained and catheterized by force on Officer Brian Miller's orders.
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Well, this is a crock:
Sudan's conviction of a woman for indecency for wearing trousers violates international law and is emblematic of wider gender discrimination in the Islamic country, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday.
This is one I never heard of before:
After an upswing in claims of prescription drug thefts, the Greenwood Police Department is no longer taking most reports of the crime.
Investigators said the majority of the claims are actually from people abusing the drugs, because a police report paves the way for a doctor to issue more prescription medication, 6News' Ben Morriston reported.
People often say of government employees, "Oh, they're nothing but a bunch of crooks." Occasionally, they are right:
Richmond city officials are still unsure how a woman who spent six months in prison for theft and forgery in Madison County, Ind., was hired as office manager at the Richmond Street Department eight months after her release.
Another justice ready to bite the dust?
Just because you have the right to possess in one state, that doesn't mean you have the right to carry in another. No, not guns:
A Michigan man learned the hard way that a medical marijuana card doesn't apply to individual bags and a cereal box of pot in Indiana.
OK, everybody start chanting and let's all go make some signs: Free James Browning! Free James Browning! Free James Browning!
A Marion County sheriff's deputy working an off-duty security job at a Speedway gas station gets this month's horny cheapskate award. He was charged with official misconduct after a police sting caught him in the act of patronizing a prostitute:
Brizzi said Wagner was heard on a recording offering to trade a pack of cigarettes and a soda for oral sex.
They were just legislators who wanted to do good, so what could possibly go wrong?
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A law taking effect this week could make criminals out of those who bring Tupperware onto many Missouri rivers.
The law was intended to reduce the floating debris from abandoned foam coolers in the state's waterways. But lawmakers, apparently a little rusty with chemistry, barred the wrong plastic.
Let's see. Feeling a little aggression creeping in. I could take medication. I could have a few therapy sessions. I might try meditation. Oh, wait, I know:
A 20-year-old Evansville man suspected of setting a series of Dumpster fires told investigators committing arson helps ease his aggression, according to a police affidavit.
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