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Brownsburg teen admits drinking, smoking marijuana before fatal accident
A Hendricks County judge Tuesday sentenced the driver in the crash that killed 18-year-old Nathan Gentry to probation. Chris Hubbard will be on probation until he turns 21. The judge suspended a 4-year prison sentence for Hubbard. In the courtroom,...
Tags: Marijuana Use, Crime, Law and Justice, Lifestyle and Leisure, Judges, Punishment
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Teen sentenced to probation in fatal crash
The teenager charged in connection with a fatal Brownsburg, Ind. crash that killed one teenager and seriously injured three others withdrew his denial of the charges against him in court Tuesday and was sentenced to probation. Chris Hubbard, 17,...
Tags: Broken Arm, Health, Broken Leg, Marijuana Use, Broken Hip
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Chicago decriminalizes pot
The Chicago City Council doesn't always act with wisdom and frugality, but it did so today in voting to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. Treating it as a crime wastes money, diverts police from truly scary activity and brands many...Tags: Marijuana Use, Chicago City Council, Substance Abuse, Crime, Law and Justice, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Big Four changes complexion of college football landscape
It didn't take long after the announcement of the new bowl deal between the Southeastern Conference and Big 12 on Friday before people began talking about the death of college football as we know it. The Big Four, as many are calling it, features the...Tags: Pacific-12 Conference, Big 12 Conference, Rose Bowl Game, Southeastern Conference, Drug Use
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Spice ban takes effect in Shelbyville
A new ban on recreational drugs kicks off in Shelbyville Friday. The city's common council passed an ordinance allowing fines for people selling or possessing spice and bath salts.
For those selling the drugs it's a $1,000 fine for the first offense...Tags: Fines, Bath Salt Drugs, Punishment
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France has banned its Frenchness
The reams of news stories on the new French ban on smoking in cafes, restaurants and night spots have invariably focused on the aura of glamour those little death sticks once conveyed. In newspapers around the globe, nostalgic descriptions of the likes of...Tags: Jean-Paul Sartre, Politics, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Values, Beverage Industry
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A werewolf is the unlikely hero of novel
“The Last Werewolf” by Glen Duncan, Alfred A. Knopf, 293 pages, $24.95.
At the start of Glen Duncan’s excellent thriller, Jake Marlowe is tired. At the age of 167, his human friend, Harley, has told him that he is the last living...Tags: Drug Use, Politics, Human Interest, Lifestyle and Leisure, Vampires (supernatural entitiess)
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How about this? Jones the doper now a diplomat for U.S.
I hadn't heard anything about defrocked Olympic track and field champion Marion Jones in the three months since her one-year WNBA career ended when she was waived in July by the Tulsa Shock, which went on to become one of the worst teams in pro sports...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Awards and Prizes, Women's National Basketball Association, Drug Use, Mark McGwire
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Police: Mother, boyfriend arrested for smoking marijuana with baby in car
A woman and her boyfriend were arrested Sunday after police said they were smoking marijuana while a 1-year-old boy was in the car.
An officer with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle he said was...Tags: Marijuana Use
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Baseball can't fix divisions until it fixes the DH
I don’t know why it came up now, maybe because we’re less than a week away from interleague play, but there talk of baseball realignment. Trib baseball colleague Phil Rogers details a lot of it here, but the general idea is to create two 15-...Tags: World Series, Nature, Alfonso Soriano, Sammy Sosa, Drug Use
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Gov. Tom Corbett says failed drug tests keeping people from working
Capitol IdeasYo! Gov. Tom Corbett is catching a ton of flak across the state and nation for saying employers are having trouble finding qualified workers because so many fail drug tests. But is Corbett wrong? Democrats think he is – but...... -
Appeals court upholds drug testing injunction
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower-court decision to stop enforcement of a state law that drug tests people applying for welfare. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court wrote in its opinion that there was no concrete...
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