The Mayor of Jackson, Miss apparently went on a rampage and took a gang of young men downtown to destroy a mentally ill man’s duplex. Link: [url=]http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage?date=20060903&x=24&y=5 caveat: link may not be there for long.
After the days of the Night Riders, it’s mighty unsettling to see someone in the position of authority to commit this type of crime 
This link may be better: http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=10627_0_27_0_C
And, I should say, the Mayor may not be guilty. I hope so.
A city councillor has accused the county council of treating the residents of Oxford with “total contempt” ahead of a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss proposals to introduce charges for parking permits.
Exciting stuff - but not as exciting as my favourite headline ever from Christmas a few years back in the town where I grew up:
PET DUCK STOLEN
That’s the story I came in to post about.
Arnold appreciates fiery Cubans.
No big deal, but it got some press. More interesting than the debates are going to be.
A steer that was to be shown at the Harvest Home days escaped for a couple of days in a suburban area, but was found by two young sisters in a local forest… the police are still trying to find the remains of a boy that was left tied up in a closet for 2 days while his foster parents went to a family reunion, and when they came home to find him dead, they burned hs body and threw the remains in the river… and in sports, the Reds are falling apart at the seams , but the Bengals are looking pretty good at K.C.
DISD Inquiry Nets First Arrest
My former school district had a very bad habit of handing out district credit cards - 1200 of them - with no supervision, accounting, or auditing. An investigation by The Dallas Morning News found millions of dollars wasted, some of it in outright fraud. The Superintendent has canceled all district credit cards, and the FBI has been called in.
The thing that’s got a lot of people up-in-arms around here is the recent rash of crop circles. Farmers are getting really tired of having their crops trampled into sloppy geometric patterns. Of course, no one thinks it’s aliens who are responsible. (As our local sherrif was quoted: “Aliens don’t usually leave behind beer cans and crumpled packs of Marlboro Reds.”)
Some of the farmers have made dark threats about “guarding” their fields which means that some drunken fool is likely going to be picking buckshot out of his ass if not killed outright.
Multi-convicted sex offender eligible for death penalty.
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Of the five headlines, "Flood risk from high tide recedes seems most in spirit with the OP.
Well…I just went to our local paper’s home page and their top 10 stories (based on reader choices) are all related to yesterday’s Ohio State football game. When we win against a team like Texas, it’s big news. It’s the top story on the front page today. Nothing else (local) really jumps out.
GT
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/3043141.html
Darren Mack.
Kind of a Scott Peterson thing. Stabbed his estranged wife to death because he didn’t like the terms of their divorce. Alleged shot and injured the judge handling their divorce. Tried to flee to Mexico.
This one caught my eye:
The HP scandal. In Silicon Valley, this stuff is local news. I’m having a wonderful time reading about it too.
The biggest story in Nashville this weekend was the opening of the new symphony hall. $120 million, all privately raised, to fund as acoustically perfect a hall as could be made. Over 35 Nashvillians each gave over $1,000,000. Pretty incredible, as is our symphony. It’s just too bad that Kenneth Schermerhorn, who was the conductor forever, died last year, not getting to see the center named after him completed. Here’s the news story.
Also in the news is an article that Senetor Bill Frist has asked that a bill protecting Tennessee Walking Horses from the disgraceful practice of “soring” (which is deliberately hurting your horse so it acheives the high-stepping gait the alking horse people prize) be revamped, at the request of the walking horse industry, the people who are making money by hurting the horses. Presently the USDA has inspectors at the walking horse shows to inpect the horses and disqualify them if they show any signs of soring in the past or present. If the comments posted on the website are any sign, Frist just lost a bunch of votes.
StG
Do not overlook the final resolution of the Infamous March Murder, ended after 10 years.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006609070422
More on March
http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/News/2005/08/11/What_the__lt_I_gt_Scene_lt___gt_/index.shtml
These are from my hometown; thanks to Google News Alerts, I can get my hometown news when I’m sick of Baltimore/DC news. The two biggest stories in Bethany Beach DE right now are the town council election (8 candidates for 4 seats) and the major road construction that will eventually lead to better summer weekend traffic, but which will cause rains of frogs, lakes of fire, migraines, flat tires, impotence, and other melodrama for locals in the off-season.
Fernando Alonso’s car got fried yesterday. I happened to see it; they’d cut to publicity and apparently someone has come up with the idea of showing the ads on most of the screen while you can still see images from the race in a smaller part. Alonso’s Renault was blowing giant puffs of black smoke in the bottom right corner while “everybody should have access to the safest car: Renault” played. Most of the talk I’ve heard was about how they should have cut the ads a bit and gone back to the race and about what a bummer of a coincidence that ad was.
My part of Spain is “under alert” due to the possibility of heavy storms.
The Socialist candidate for local President is some guy who once tried to slug my father. Apparently he’s a violent drunk.
Fire that gutted over-century old historic Elks Lodge & former City Hall buildings three weeks ago now thought to be arson.
Re the Aussie lady who killed & cooked hubby & prepared to feed him to his adult kids… now she’s seen TITUS a few too many times! :eek: