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24, May 2012 - Porter, IN Northwest Indiana official getting heat for comment about ‘fruits’ in jail - Chicago Sun-Times
Polarek’s comment came during a discussion of overcrowding at the Porter County Jail. Circuit Court Judge Mary Harper said “low-hanging fruit” might be able to be released from the jail to reduce the number of inmates, referring to those incarcerated ...
24, May 2012 - Mourdock defeats Lugar in primary - Martinsville Reporter-Times
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller credited local party officials ... sued the Obama administration saying the bankruptcy deal would have cheated pension funds and other secured creditors. He took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court and ...
24, May 2012 - Northwest Indiana official getting heat for comment about ‘fruits’ in jail
An official in Porter County, Ind., said Wednesday he will not apologize for a remark he made at Tuesday’s council meeting that some of his colleagues have interpreted to be a slur against gays and lesbians. Porter County Councilman Jim Polarek added his words were misconstrued and being blown out of proportion. “If somebody thought when I said ‘fruits’ I thought gays and lesbians, that is the ...
24, May 2012 - Porter, IN Porter County Courts - Chicago Sun-Times
but the Indiana Supreme Court declined to hear the case after the appellate court ruled it legal. Porter County Superior Court Judge William Alexa gave Almovodar until June 10 to turn herself into Porter County Jail so she could see her daughter graduate ...
23, May 2012 - The cost of California's death penalty - Contra Costa Times
And that does not include the expense for the attorney ... in states such as Maryland, Nevada and Indiana have suggested the death penalty is a costly burden on justice systems. The measure's supporters stress California has executed just ...
22, May 2012 - Porter, IN Former Porter County cop strikes plea deal; gets probation in OWI case - Chicago Sun-Times
After leaving the celebration about 2:52 a.m., Fenters hit two parked cars on Indiana Avenue in Valparaiso ... limit He had been suspended from normal duties and worked at Porter County Jail until April 20111, when he resigned months after the Porter ...
22, May 2012 - Indiana "right-to-work" foes drop bid to block law for now - msnbc.com
Attorneys for the International ... say the measure is also designed to hobble organized labor, a key financial supporter of the Democratic Party, and to lower the wages and benefits of Indiana workers. So far, efforts to overturn similar ...
22, May 2012 - Elkhart, IN Law and Order Porter County - Chicago Sun-Times
The three men inside - two from Elkhart, ages 29 and 30, and a 27-year-old Indianapolis man on supervised release from jail for dealing cocaine - gave ... at U.S. 20 and Indiana 249 - he said he stopped drinking at about 3 a.m. However, he failed field ...
22, May 2012 - Muncie, IN Department of Child Services in the news
A couple interesting takes on issued related to the Indiana Department of Child Services’ centralize child abuse hotline over the weekend by reporters from the Muncie Star Press, South Bend Tribune and Times of Northwest Indiana. In one story that was part of a package in the Star Press, reporters Doug Walker and Keith Roysdon detail concerns raised by prosecutors, judges and medical personnel ...
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