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So, did Brett Kavanaugh have a "Serena Williams moment"?
Couldn't he have just said,  "Yeah,  I jumped Christy's bones
when  we  were both in high school,  both  under  age;  but I
didn't get them;  and I have moved on . . . ."

Or, "I was so drunk I don't  remember anything like that."  E-
ven that might be excused. . . .

Former tennis professional Stephanie Reece's  two  children – a
boy, 15, and a girl, 13 – were killed by her ex-husband, who kil-
led himself also, in his house in Zionsville.
                                                                          [courtesy People]

A fish image serving as a weather vane  atop the Monroe Coun-
ty Courthouse in Bloomington was to get a name in a contest o-
pen to 4-to-14-year-olds only. . . .

The town of Griffith voted 97 per cent to secede from Calumet
Township in Lake County. . . .

The Seattle (Washington) police department put up a billboard
on the east side of Indianapolis to lure Indianapolis officers  to
Seattle for police jobs.
                                                      [courtesy Columbus Republic]
                               

denzalew.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Denzale Dillard, BM, 6'2", 210 lbs, domestic violence; Margaret Rayner, 5'2" 200 lbs, unlawful possession of syringe; Wanted in Berrien County, Michigan: Devontez Shaquille Wofford, resist & obst. (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

A waitress at Applebee's in Radcliff received, in lieu of a tip,
a note saying, "We don't tip black people."
                                                                                                    [courtesy LEX18]

smathers.jpg Lexington's most wanted (pulled kicking and screaming from the Herald-Leader: Dan Smathers, WM, 50, 6'1", 240 lbs, peter puffer; Heather begley, WF, 27, 5'7", 130 lbs, 'featured fugitive of the week', burglary; Machelle Thornton, WF, 44, meth poster child; Sheena Hutchens, WF, 31, 5'7", 150 lbs (she has been here once before - we didn't know why then, either); Maxwell Wilburn, WM, 21, 5'11", 140 lbs, upside down ears

 

dankalip.jpg James Vance, WM, 37, 5'11", 160 lbs, rider beard; Danika Lippert, WF, 35, 5'6", 140 lbs, rolling in the joints; Shannon Brewer, WF, 26, 5'5", 187 lbs, overstay at the China Buffet

padper11.jpg Luis Sandoval-Uribe, 21; Lequita Jo Smith, 48, a/k/a Lequita Chittenden; Brittany E. Myatt, 26; Tonya Gonzalez, 42, a/k/a Tonya Lester a/k/a Tonya Mayes; Krysten M. Gordon, 38, a/k/a Krystan Cole, fraudulent firearms transaction

    Carrie Underwood cries chocolate tears
          on the cover of her new album

Only minor injuries were reported from this school  bus  that left the road
near Mars, Pennsylvania. . . . Country singer Jason Aldean returned to the
stage in Las Vegas nine days before the Harvest Day massacre anniversary
(no one was shot). . . . Jennifer  Hudson's  rendition  of  " The Times They
Are a -Changin' " at the Washington Mall showed that it does not  have  to
be a national anthem to be mauled in performance. . . .Amber Guyger was
fired. . . . London's "Croydon cat killer" turned out to be foxes. . . .  Dunk-
in' Donuts dropped "Donuts" from its trade name  (does anyone remember
Kentucky Fried Chicken?), Weight Watchers became "WW" (losing 12 let-
ters but gaining three syllables),  and Arby's acquired Sonic  (and its entire
roller rink). .  .  . A wild Eastern box turtle with a fractured undershell was
getting around in a Lego wheelchair at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. . . .
A Montana jury returned a $35 million verdict against Jehovah's Witnesses
for covering up a case of child abuse. . . . Police in suburban Cincinnati, O-
hio,  called off a murder investigation when they realized the body found in
a bag in a park was a sex doll.
                                                    [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

juaquima.jpg Wanted in Wichita Falls (Texaas, not Wichita, Kansas): Juaquim [sic] Armandariz, HM, 44, 5'7", 174 lbs, family violence; Tammi Michelle Stewart, WF, 31, 5'7", 124 lbs, endangering child; Maria Cynthia Bata, AF, 62, 5'2", 140 lbs, theft; Jandreani Bell, BF, 26, 5'4", 125 lbs, exposure; Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Aimee Marie Espinoza HF, 24, 5'3", a35 lbs, coke; Jaquelyn Starr Gutierrez, WF, 37, 5'4" 150 lbs, burglary (Texoma's most wanted fugitives of the week, courtesy Wichita Falls Crime Stoppers)(Abilene Crime Stoppers)

Four horses died of injuries suffered in four different races
in four days at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

tenashay.jpg Locked up on San Angelo (by the Tom Green          County, Texas, Sheriff): BOOE* Bailed out or escaped; Tenashay Newsome, 25, card ab.; Cassandra Sandoval, 38; BOOE; Larry Trent, 56, trash on prop.; Darla Walker, 35, Mj; Amber Sanmiguel, 32; Dianna Huber, 30; Monica Gutierrez, 23, aband. chi.

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Publius Leget wrote Sun 9/16/18 @16:30 CDT:

So,  what  you  were  saying in last week's  sports  editor- ial  is,  Serena Williams was having a  dumb  nigger  mo- ment,  right? Or was it a "dumb cunt" mo- ment?   E.g., . . . .

Amber Guyger

Anji Gwen,  Bennie Charoson,  Joy Cary  and Billy Hobb
wrote Sun 9/16/18 @17:31 EDT:
                                                                You can't say that!
Malachi Dean wrote Sun 9/16/18
@16:32 CDT:
                                                           Dumb cracker remark.

An angry encounter at a bar in Muncie wound up in  a  patron's
driving his car into a crowd of other patrons outside. . . .

Two "endangered species" female barn owls were released into
a barn in Monroe County.
                                                      [courtesy Columbus Republic]

dominicm.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Dominic Jones, BM, 5'5", 140 lbs, strangulation: Madonna Papa, WF, 5'3", 115 lbs, theft, battery; Wanted in Berrien County, Michigan: Christine Charisse Dowling, WF, haboring felons; Denise Carole Londowski, WF, harboring felons; Thomas Ray Spangler, WM, resisting & obstructing (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

A 26-year-old woman arrest- ed in Livings- ton   shit   up- ward  into the arresting offi- cer's face. . . . A  33-year-old woman whose 4-year-old  tot

Amanda Rochelle Peters

was found inside the home with ankles bound by zip ties was arrest-
ed in Somerset. . . .

James Woods, 55, arrested for meth  trafficking in Laurel County, is not  the editor of Tabloid Headlines. . . . A fire department drone found a marijuana crop in a corn field in Lincoln County.                         [courtesy LEX18]

                                                                         
           

robhicks.jpg Lexington's most wanted: Robert Young, WM, a/k/a Wayne Jent, 55, 5'11", 155 lbs, crack; Glenda Hicks, WF, 40, 5'2", 115 lbs, same as this one? What did they do?; Melinda Ann Bishop, WF, 36, 5'4", 200 lbs, our Yorkshire hog of the week, burglary (Melinda courtesy Bluegrass Crime Stoppers; others pulled kicking and screaming from the Herald-Leader)

padper10.jpg Rebecca E. Cartwright, 38, Angela Bernardo, 39, Cajun K. Kemp 23, Jessica L. Hurst, 31, Jennifer Gail Scott, 37, a/k/a J Crews

Classic Quotations of the Wheat (Simon said November 8, 2015): "If you want a guarantee in life, buy a toaster."   – Leonard Simon

blasekav.jpg Bret Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey in high school

A 5-year-old boy who had wet himself was abandoned by his parents in the
woods in southern Minnesota. . . . A man was arrested for  rubbing  vegeta-
bles  on  his butt  and putting them back in the racks at a grocery in Manas-
sus, Virginia.  .  .  .  A grocery in Kuwait was shut down after being caught
putting "Googly Eyes" on fish to make them look fresher. . . . The Humane
Society in Wisconsin untangled five baby squirrels whose tails were entan-
gled with each other  and long grasses and plastics their mama  had  woven
into their nest. . . . The Uranus Examiner, a new local newspaper in Uranus,
Missouri, was raising eyebrows before publication of its first issue. . . .  No
income tax liability was incurred by Amazon for 2017. .  .  . Wikipedia edi-
tors were arguing over whether to put a reference to President Trump's dick
in their article about the Nintendo toad. . . . Bert & Ernie were outed by one
of their writers, then on NPR.
                                                     [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, HuffPost, AP]

bryandac.jpg Arrested n Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Bryan Campbell, WM, 28, 5'6", meth; Dacqueri Louis  Hopkins, BM, 30, 6'3", 175 lbs, injury to a child; Brian Anthony Catania, WM, 36, 6'0", 170 lbs, aggravat. sex. child assault (Abilene Crime Stoppers); Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Jessica Lee Austin, WF, 24, 5'4", 135 lbs, tattoos chest, back, right thigh, left arm, felon w/firearm; Christopher Michael Moore, W(sic)M, 34, 5'7", 150 lbs, blue eyes, tattoo on neck, exploitation of child, lewd & lascivious (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

jeanawes.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County Texas Sheriff): Jeana Acosta,, 32, drug para.; Destina Arambula, 35, resisting; Hazalynn Walker, 31, ATM burglary; Maria Martiarena, 32, DWOL; Tara Bruton, 24, tresp.; Jennifer Mata, 39, theft; Shandi Moolhuysen, 43, assault; Kimberly Shelton, 39, resis.; Amanda Robbins, 38, dope

The Cleveland Browns won a football game.

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Fred Dean wrote Mon 9/10/18 @07:57 PDT:

From an article about Stormy Daniels' concern for
her "normal life,"  I see that she was sued  for  div-
orce  by her husband,   a  "heavy  metal"  drummer
who also works in "adult films,"  charging her with
adultery.  Since they both work in "the industry,"  I
guess  adultery  does  not  include  having sex with
someone not your husband in front of a camera for
money.

The Hancock County Sheriff suggested a  semi-trailer  park  to
house a prisoner overflow (his jail, in Greenfield, designed for
157 inmates, lately has housed 200). . . .

A WalletHub survey found Indiana to be the 32nd happiest state
in the U.S. – Hawaii, the happiest. . . .

They finally fixed the elevator at the Miami County Courthouse
in Peru.
                                                        [courtesy Columbus Republic]

lisamber.jpg Indianapolis' most wanted: Lisa Bland, WF, 5'4", 120 lbs, battery rresulting in moderate bodily injury; Amber Hernandez, HF, 5'4", 160 lbs, unlawful possession of a syringe; imberly Arwani, WF, 5'6", 125 lbs, theft; Anthony West, WM, 5'11", 205 lbs, domestic battery (Central Indiana Crime Stoppers); South Bend's: Ashley McGill, WF, 5'7", 125 lbs, auto theft, marijuana, failure to appear (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

Dumb news from Kentucky: Kentucky's Yorkshire piglets went to Wash- ington.     [courtesy Kentucky         Living magazine] Louisville Ballard High School boys  dressed in white  shirts   passed   a watermelon  around   in the bleachers   at a foot- ball  game  against  pre- dominantly  African-A- merican  Central   High School.   And it turned out  that  black Ballard students brought it.     [the Courier-Journal]

A WalletHub survey found Kentucky to be the 44th happiest state  in  the  U.S.
– West Virginia, the unhappiest.
                                                                                      [courtesy studyfinds.com]

venturag.jpg Lexington's most wanted: Alexander Ventura-Gonzalez, HM, 52, 5'9", 225 lbs, Logan's Roadhouse peanuts in his cheeks (receiving stolen property); Ernestine Gowdy, BF, 36, 5'6", 160 lbs, assault w/tennis raq.; Kelley Haarison, WF, 36, 5'4", 130 lbs, snarled at police; Tiffany White, BF, 27, 5'11", 175 lbs, posed as Asian in lineup; Antoinette Watts, BF, 47, 5'7", 140 lbs, dancin' on the corner; Magali Qiuros-Alacon, HF, 46, 5'9", 225 lbs, Yorkshire hog of the week; Joseph Bryant, WM, 18,, 6'1", 225 lbs, featured fugitive of the week, robbery 2° (pulled kicking and screaming from the Herald-Leader)

padperp9.jpg Perps in Paducah: Robert B. Purvis, 33; Damien J. Johnson, 22; Amanda Marie Fowler, 30; Brittanie McCleod, 33, a/k/a Brittany McLeod; Pamela S. Eliot, 48 (McCracken County Sheriff)

Lucy Lou, the first female mayor of Rabbit Hash, died at 12.
                                                                                                   [LEX18]

Quotations of the Wheat (Simon says): "They asked.me why I dated this Yorkshire hog I went out with,  and I said that it seemed she had a lot to offer." – Leonard Simon

                                             Dina Lohan, 56
                    September 16: 
                                             Rosemary Casals, 70
                                             Elgin Baylor, 84

kaeperez.jpg Celebrity lookalikes: Colin Kaepernick, Joe Perez

State troopers stopped a car near Syracuse, New York, and a 3-year-old girl
inside reached under a seat and handed them a bag of pot,  which she open-
ed as she gave it to them. . . . Telephones were banned at middle schools in
France. . . . Stormy Daniels' memoir Full Disclosure is scheduled for publi-
cation October 2. . . .  Volkswagen said it would stop making Beetles.

                                                                     [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

lisagela.jpg Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Lisa Michelle Goodman, HF, 37, 5'3", 165 lbs, aggravated assault; Angela Jaquez, HF, 38, 5'4", 170 lbs, aggravated assault; Alicia Vasquez, HF, 32, 5'1", 155 lbs, poss. of meth w/intent to deliver asserting Down syndrome as defense; Alicia Renee Alaniz, WF, 31, 5'6", 140 lbs, forgery (Sedgwick County Sheriff); Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Curtis J. Reeb, WM, a/k/a Kevin Adams, Jeremy Dean, Pippi Longstocing, Christopher Reeb, 47, 6'1", 210 lbs, tattoos neck, left arm, both shoulders, burglary (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

Ocean Springs High School's home- coming queen  traded her tiara for a helmet  as the game went into over- time  and kicked an extra point that beat George County  in Mississippi (she also kicked two field goals for her team's only score  in regulation play). . . . The U.S. Tennis Association,  NOW and Billie Jean King backed Serena Williams  while  the  World  Tennis Federation  and  Martina Navratilo- va were in  the umpires' camp,  as some umpires talked boycott:

  

serenadn.jpg "can you just let her win?" ; Mark Knight, Herald Sun, Australia

Editorial:
                  All Serena had to say, when warned by the umpire of being "coached"
at  the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament's women's championship match, was, "Tell
my coach; I wasn't watching."  Instead she denied cheating and made a self-righ-
teous speech,  first saying she didn't see the coaching,  then  saying all her coach
did was give her a "thumbs up" (so, she was watching him, or wasn't she?).  Plus
getting her emotions up,  breaking her racquet as  she  was  losing  (it could have
been honorably) to Naomi Osaka, and calling the umpire a "thief."   And later el-
evating the incident to a "#MeToo" incident.

Billie Jean King did not cite one single example of males getting away with similar
tirades. Here are some – both of getting away with it and not – e.g., John McEnroe,
American white boy, once was fined $17,500 (in 1987 dollars), was defaulted from
a Grand Slam tournament match, and was suspended for two months.

Speaking of "politically correct," Rachel Martin interviewed an English writer, Tobi
Oredein,  about the incident on National Public Radio's Morning Edition  last  Tues-
day;  and  Oredein,  in  her  British accent,  suggested that the treatment of Williams
was not only sexist but also racist.  Interestingly, and disingenuously, Martin did not
point out that Oredein herself is black  (this was radio,  not TV,  folks).  But Oredein
gave a hint, saying, at one point, "It dehumanizes us."

macialex.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County (Texas) Sheriff): Lionel Macias, 67, marijuana, criminal tresp.; Alexis Rickels, 22, misc.; Donna Dunn, 33, joy ride; Julia Bird, 34, false ID; Ashley Yell, 27, misc.; Ann Souder, 52, misc.; Crystal Urleaga, 31, parole violation; Chriselda Esquivel, 36, tresp.; Douglas Groover, 36, sexual assault on child

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Bruce Mitchell wrote Sun 9/2/18 @11:30 PDT:

Who is Boswell Rabbitsmith?  He’s a clever guy.

His real name is Steve Wright.  We're not sure he's the same
person as the standup comic Steven Wright.   – Editor

A Southern Indiana Amish couple sued the United States,  the
Department of Homeland Security  and  U.S. Citizenship  and
Immigration Services for demanding photographs of them and
and their 13 children to complete the wife's application for per-
manent residence  (she's Canadian, and the man's second wife;
all the children are by his late first wife). Old Order Amish be-
lieve photos of people are  “graven  images”  prohibited by the
Second Commandment. . . .

The statue of Muncie businessman Charles Willard, missing for
more than 50 years after the Willard Building was razed  in  the
1960's,  is returning to Muncie, having been discovered outside
the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel in Tennessee. . . .

Forty-five persons  have been charged with  disorderly  conduct
and other crimes in a brawl at a Sikh temple in Greenwood. . . .

Thirty-three of the state's 92 counties now are "texting" criminal
defendants to remind them of court dates. . . .

koffiviv.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Vivian McGee, BF, 5'4", 130 lbs, theft; Koffi Gbetoudour, BM, 5'8", 200 lbs, ID deception; Megan Morrison, WF, 5'1", 130 lbs (! sic), failure to go back to jail; Wanted in Berrien County, Michigan: Aviona Monee Perry, BF, larceny in a building; Michelle Danielle-Marrie Ford, WF, domestic viol, & tattooed, ugly, Yorkshire hog; Rodeisha Nicole Johnson, BF, assault w/intent to commit bodily inj. less than murder (Michiana Crime Stoppeers)

A broken elevator at the Miami County Courthouse in Peru  has
caused problems for more than 3½ months for people who can’t
make it up three flights of stairs to pay taxes or get to court hear-
ings.
                                                      [courtesy Columbus Republic]

Candidates for mayor debated "Between Two Penguins"    in Lexington. . . . Atti's Acres Pig Rescue        was looking        for homes  for  400 pigs found most- ly unattended on a farm in Pendle- ton County (pigs were showing up in        neighbors' yards. . . .

A woman a Lexington man met through a dating "app" drove off with his
blue Ford Mustang automobile. . . .

A semitrailer hauling  whiskey  burst into flames after hitting a stalled ve-
hicle on I-264 in Louisville.
                                                                                          [courtesy LEX18]

wynnkell.jpg Lexington's most wanted: Paul Wynn, WM, 26, 5'8", 150 lbs, Yorkshire hog pimp; Sameem Kelly, BF, 25, 5'5", 150 lbs, featured fugitive of the week, assault 2°; Jessica Reed, BF, 40, 5'9", 280 lbs, Yorkshire hog of the week candidate; Melinda Bishop, WF, 36, 5'4", 200 lbs, Yorkshire hog of week cand.; Jaavai Diaz, BF, 34, 5'3" 200 lbs, Yorkshire hog candidate; Marcella Hill, WF, 35, 5'2", 145 lbs, not a candidate; Chasity Blackburn, WF, 43, 5'1", 116 lbs, already disqualified; Marques Broker, WM, 37, 5'6", 150 lbs, running illegal book on YH (pulled kicking & screaming from the Herald-Leader)

padperp8.jpg Melissa R. May, 31; Ana Herrera Valdez, 22; Brad Reeves, 39; Amgela Crabtree, 34; Tonya M. Kelley, 33 (McCracken County Sheriff)

High winds brought the screen down at a new drive-in theater in Oldham
County.
                                                                                         [courtesy WDRB]

Classic Quotations of the Wheat (Simon said May 24, 2015): "Atheists are the most courageous people I know:  They're   not afraid to burn in hell." – Leonard Simon

KFC  (formerly Kentucky Fried Chicken)  was offering an $11,000 scholar-
ship to the first child born today to be named after the Colonel. .  .  . A Wis-
consin man's foster mother discovered on Clutterbook Facebook that one of
his co-workers was  his  father  (whom he had known for two years, but not
as his father). . . .  Police found a couple's beaten 9-year-old son hidden in a
washing machine, with a blanket over him, in an Oklahoma City suburb. . . .
A 32-year-old man who had "spoken with God" killed  and  decapitated  his
girl friend, in front of their 3-year-old daughter, in Mount Vernon, Washing-
ton. . . .  Mollie Tibbetts' father asked people to stop politicizing her murder.
.  .  . Eighty-seven detusked elephant carcasses were found  near  a  wildlife
sanctuary in Botswana. . . . A man was arrested  near  Kennewick, Washing-
ton for sexually assaulting  a  beaver  that had been hit by a car (the  beaver
did not survive). . . . Former Arizona state senator Kelli Ward,  a  candidate
for the nomination for election to retiring Senator Jeff Flake's  U.S.  Senate
seat, suggested that the timing of the late Senator John McCain's announce-
ment that he was going off life support for brain cancer  was  timed  to hurt
her campaign.  . . . Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte visited the Israeli
Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. . . . Saudi  Arabia  announced  plans for a
canal that would turn Qatar into an island.  . . .  Kuwait closed down a fish-
monger putting "googly eyes" on products to make them look fresh. . . . Bi-
shop Charles H. Ellis III apologized for being  "too  friendly"  with  Ariana
Grande at Aretha Franklin's funeral. . . .  An internet search history of a 23-
year-old Alaskan woman charged with murder  included  "Ways  to kill hu-
man with no proof," "16 steps to kill someone & not get caught" and "How
to Commit the Perfect Murder." . . .  A study found that goats prefer happy
people. . . . Actress Asia Argento,  then  37,  said that she was the one who
was raped – by the 17-year-old boy. . . . Roy Moore sued Sacha Baren Co-
hen for $95 million.  . . .  An 18-year-old Israeli fell off a cliff at Yosemite
National Park in California and died attempting to take a "selfie' with a wa-
terfall in the background.
                                                                     [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

hitewebb.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Russell Hite, WM, 6'0", 180 lbs, burglary (Sedgwick County Sheriff); Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Elizabeth Nicole Webb, WF, 42, 5'7", 135 lbs, burglary; Amber Amanda-Marie Smith, WF, 31, 5'1", 140 lbs, fraudulent ID (Abilene Crime Stoppers)

Missouri's College of the Ozarks dropped their Nike uni-
forms in protest of the company's adoption of Colin Kae-
pernick as a spokesman.

ruizgary.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Paul Ruiz, 35, theft; Sandra Gedney, 37, ag. assault; Margie Rodriguez, 43, pos., tresp.; Mary McGary, 38, possess.; Crystal Garcia, 25, possessn.; Ana Gonzalez, 34, possession; Shannon Phillips, 31, fail. to ID fugitive; Tracy Trammell, 47, DUI x3; Joe Perez, 62, family assault

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The Gary diocese released the names of 10 former priests
deemed guilty of child sex abuse. . . .

Not only is a committee of friends soliciting funds for the
families  of  four  teen-agers  killed in a crash in Southern
Indiana,  but so are scammers on line. . . .

A 16-year-old Elkhaart boy who recklessly killed a woman
when he was 14 got 64 years in prison. . . .

A herd of 58 bison escaped from a fenced grazing ground
near Pleasant Lake in Steuben County  (eight were recap-
tured).
                                           [courtesy Columbus Republic]

Real house boats were being produced on Lake Cumberland. . . .

A woman was hit in the face by a cell phone  while riding  on  a  roller
coaster at an amusement park in Louisville. . . .

A 38-year-old woman was arrested walking down a  Bell  County  road
naked,  yelling and cursing. . . .

Shayna Hubers was found guilty. . . . A Baptist preacher who passed a peewee foot- ball game in Trimble County and saw 7-year- old girls in cheerleader costume posted a rant on Clutterbook Facebook saying the kids were going to hell and  the  girls  were  dressed like prostitutes. . . . A man blocked  machete blows  with his brief- case on the streets of Lexington. . . . Kaitlyn Hughey, 25, of Arkansas, trying to leap into  Kentucky Lake  from a rock quarry ledge, slipped, fell down the rocks, and died. . . . A  man  faked  a  heart  attack  to get an ambu- lance ride to a hospital cafeteria in Corbin. . . .

Shayna             Kaitlyn

This sign for last week's Manchester Music Fest  raised a bit of  a  stir  on
"social media." . . .

The father of Kentucky Secretary of State  Alice in Wonderland's Groin
Alison Lundergan Grimes,  a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2014 and now
running for governor, was indicted for illegal campaign spending in 2014
(bye, bye, Grimes for guv!)
                                             [courtesy LEX18, Raw Story, Herald-Leader]

Classic Quotations of the Wheat (Simon said May 3, 2015): "My wife said I needed to relate more to her family – so   I seduced her sister." – Leonard Simon

It was reported that the average age of a car in Poland is 17, and that 33 of
Europe's most polluted cities are in Poland. .  .  . Investigators found fenta-
nyl in the sippy cup of a 17-month-old baby who died in Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania. .  .  .  Michael Cohen set up a GoFundMe page to cover his legal
expenses. . . . Rats (the animal kind) infested Washington, D.C. . . .  A stu-
dy found that heat waves reduce fertility in pigs, raising the price of bacon.
. . . Australia rejected an asylum seeker from Iraq because he was "girlish."
.  .  .  IBM sought a patent for a drone that would monitor  office  workers'
"cognitive state" and deliver coffee when it detected drowsiness. . . .  Two
goats were caught on subway tracks in Brooklyn. . . .  A crocodile crossed
a canal in Key Largo, Florida, on a pool noodle. . . .The "Original Farmers
Almanac" says we'll have a  mild  winter,  but the "Old Farmers Almanac"
("Since 1818)" says it will be rough. . . . It's illegal to  cuss  people  out  in
Myrtle Beach,  South Carolina. . . . PETA petitioned the state of Maine for
permission to place a memorial stone beside a highway where 70 crates of
lobsters were spilled in a truck crash.
                                                                    [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

       
   This is the "catsuit" Serena           And this is the "tutu" she          And then she went "off
   Williams  was  told  not  to           opened the U.S. Open in.          white."
   wear  again  at  the  French
   Open tennis tournament.