Tips To Help Your Dog Stay Calm and Stay Home This Fireworks Season

"Animal shelters around the country will be preparing their kennels over the next couple of days to receive the usual number of "fireworks dogs" who escape their homes/yards after becoming frightened of Fourth of July fireworks displays. Susan Sharpe, APDT, CPDT, owner of...

Cremated remains of show organizer to be shot in fireworks at Indianapolis...

One of the fireworks bursting above the city this year will contain a bit of cremated remains – a fitting tribute, organizers say, to the man who ran the annual event for 40 years." Meredith Smith died in February at age 74. About a half-teaspoon of his ashes will be in...

The Greatest of All Time

"  The First 10 Amendments to theConstitution as Ratified by the StatesDecember 15, 1791 Preamble Congress OF THE United Statesbegun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesdaythe Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.   THE...

US teacher is suspended for letting pupils read bestseller

This teacher must have a noble intention but it turned out against her. Although she had sought the permission from Parents before introducing this book but her action has backfired.   "An Indiana teacher who used a much lauded bestseller, The Freedom Writers Diary,...

Indiana Officer's Wife Ran Prostitution Ring From Home

The Indianapolis area has had a lot of dirty cops come out of the woodwork lately.  First, a handful of cops were caught selling drugs out of the evidence room from the Marion County Police Department. ...

Super Mario marathon raises thousands of $$.

This is something new. Three guys playing video games help raises $11,000 for Child's Play Charity. An estimated 57hours was spent on all 7 Mario games from the old-school 2D Super Mario Brothers  to the...

US factory worker in gun rampage

A factory worker in Henderson town of Kentucky has shot four people before killing himself. He used a handgun to kill all these people.   " Police in the US state of Kentucky say a member of staff at a...

Mississippi River flood levee breaks - evacuations ordered

UPDATE: 3:07PM ESTA levee has broken about an hour ago along the Mississippi River, and evacuations have been ordered for residents in that area." Another Mississippi River levee burst in the heavily flooded...

UPDATE--Jury Convicts Jimmy Atteberry in 90 Minutes

UPDATE:This is an update from the post I wrote yesterday regarding my dismissal of the jury in the 1985 murder of Lisa Lightfoot.  ORIGINAL...

OPINION--I Was Robbed of My Civic Duty!

"I am a victim of defense counsel's peremptory challenge! "Yesterday I reported to jury duty for the first time. When that summons comes in the mail, most people are annoyed at the “inconvenience”, but for...

Bush to urge Congress to allow offshore drilling

" President Bush plans to make a renewed push Wednesday to get Congress to end a long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, echoing a call by GOP presidential candidate John McCain. Congressional Democrats have opposed lifting the prohibitions on energy...

S Asians top US spelling contests

Elder daughter, Shruti, was first in the family to participate in the contest, but it was her 13-year-old brother, Sameer, who spelled his way to the coveted first prize - worth more than $40,000 - in this year's...

Lemonade stand thief brought to justice

I wanted to give this story a funny title like "Lemonade stand theft turns sour," but frankly its way too depressing for that. In Indiana, Steve Tron robbed a little girl's lemonade stand before running into a...

Tomatoes in The state of Baja California Mexico are certified safe

Our tomatoes heve been certified clean. Tomatoe farms around the city had  their production stopped, their  economy was affected this past week. I didn't buy any tomatoes just in case but at the...

Celebrities join World Bank in Saving Tigers

"By Lesley WroughtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hollywood celebrities Harrison Ford, Bo Derek and Robert Duvall on Monday threw their support behind a new global initiative by the World Bank to save tigers from...

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