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Indiana probing teacher’s threatening meltdown to students: ‘The guns are loaded!!!’
School officials in Lake Station, Indiana on Monday said that they were investigating a business instructor for allegedly threatening students with a chalkboard message that said his “guns are loaded.” Lake Station police confirmed to WLS that students at Edison Junior-Senior High School had shared photos of a chalkboard message…
Maddow blasts Indiana’s mandated double trans-vaginal probe bill
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday night ripped into a bill in Indiana that would require women to undergo to trans-vaginal ultrasounds twice if they wished to terminate their pregnancy. The bill, approved by the state Senate Health and Provider Services Committee on Wednesday, would require clinics to conduct trans-vaginal…
BP recalls ‘problem’ gas in Indiana
BP recalls gas in Indiana. You can recall gas? (via The Christian Science Monitor) BP is recalling a 50,000-barrel batch of gasoline – more than 2 million gallons – in northwestern Indiana because the fuel can cause cars to stall, have a hard time starting, or other problems. If you…
Indiana prosecutor accused of silencing Chinese woman on murder charge
Prosecutors in Indiana are being accused of trying to muzzle and intimidate a Chinese woman who has been charged with murder and attempted foeticide after she attempted to kill herself by eating rat poison while eight months pregnant. Bei Bei Shuai’s lawyer, Linda Pence, has filed papers with the Indiana…
Indiana man guilty of driving drunk with kids strapped to car hood
A man from Fort Wayne, Indiana has pleaded guilty to driving drunk while four children were strapped to the hood of his car. The manager of Belmont Beverage called police when he noticed yellow tow straps securing the children to the hood of Aaron Stefanski’s white sedan. Court documents showed…
Indiana charges Chinese immigrant with feticide after suicide attempt
When her baby Angel died in her arms at 1.30am on 3 January 2011, Bei Bei Shuai was so distraught she was instantly transferred to the mental health wing of the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis. Grief stricken and under heavy sedation, she was unaware that within half an hour of…
Church cheers as 4-year-old sings ‘ain’t no homos gonna make it to heaven’
Video of a young boy at a church in Indiana being cheered as he sings about how “no homos are gonna make it to heaven” has gone viral. “The Bible is right, somebody’s wrong,” the boy, who appears to be around 4-years-old, sings. “Romans 1 and 27, ain’t no homo…
Voter ID laws could disenfranchise more than 25,000 transgender voters: study
New voter ID laws will likely make it more difficult for more than 25,000 transgender voters to cast a ballot in the November elections, according to a study released by the Williams Institute. Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin have all passed laws requiring voters…
Indiana ‘right-to-work’ foes drop bid to block law for now
(Reuters) – Opponents of Indiana’s new “right to work” law have withdrawn a request for a court order to block the anti-union measure after the state said it will not enforce it retroactively. But opponents of the law said on Monday they will press on with their larger legal challenge…
Watch: Storms wreak havoc across US midsection
As more than six dozen tornadoes ripped through the central United States on Friday afternoon, reports came in of at least eleven deaths, while the town of Marysville, Indiana was described by a local sheriff as simply “gone.” In Henryville, Indiana, the local high school was seriously damaged, but the…
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