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Bulgarian Archaeologists Rescue Thracian Treasure from Hwy Construction Archaeology A real archaeological treasure has popped out underneath the "Struma" highway construction works in western Bulgaria. Archaeologists at the site have managed a last-minute rescue operation, pulling "under the nose" of waiting construction workers and machinery gold soldier breastplates, gold earrings and hairpins, and a number of silver and amber items, the Bulgarian Standard daily writes Friday. The finds came from an unseen so far in size Thracian necropolis in the vicinity of the village of Dren, near the town of Radomir. They have been unearthed in the spring of 2012,...

Urinating in a clasmate's drink caused a Highland High School student 60 hours of shoveling manure.Zachary Pyles, 19, 3595 E. 300N, was convicted Monday in Anderson City Court of criminal mischief as a Class B misdemeanor for urinating in Jamie Saylor's soda Feb. 16.Judge Donald Phillippe sentenced Pyles to 60 hours of community service at the barn where the Anderson Police Department's horses reside."Every time you pick up manure down here, I want you to think about what you've done," Phillippe said. "I consider it a type of mischief that can lead you right into the reformatory."After he has completed ...

We have a new minister in our [United Methodist] church. He came here after serving some seventeen years at a United Methodist Liberal Arts college in Indianapolis in the United Methodist student center.Today's sermon had a number of references to a book [I didn't get the name and author] published about some of the tribulations in recent years in Guatemala. A reference was made to the current "fascist regime" as well as to the peasants "just trying to get some of the land back from the United Fruit Company" and to the terribly repressive torturing and repression by the current ...

For 50 years, the Harvard Law School Forum has been sponsoring speeches by luminaries ranging from Fidel Castro to Gerald Ford to Dr. Ruth. Sometimes the speeches have generated a bit of media coverage, sometimes not. But one given last month by Charlton Heston has taken on a life of its own. Heston, the actor and conservative activist, delivered a stem-winder to about 200 listeners about "a cultural war that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart." "He knew he was coming to a liberal environment, and clearly a group of his ...

Spencer, IN - Two militia leaders face conspiracy charges after allegedly plotting to have a third member of their group killed while they demonstrated against the play 'Corpus Christi'.The two men are held without bond Sunday on charges of conspiracy to commit murder as well as a number of weapon violations.The two men, leaders of the 14th Regiment of the Indiana State Militia, were arreested Friday before the Fort Wayne premiere of a student production of the play, featuring a gay, Christ-like character.The play is being produced on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue Universty Fort Wayne but the two men ...

In my Free Republic mail today I received the following message:, I would like to tell you about an organization that is leading the way in European rights, and the restoration of our European culture. This organization is the National Alliance. We are growing daily as mass immigration, forced integration programs, the loss of our culture, and high non-White on White crime rates plague our society. We are growing within our own movement due to frustration of the lack of discipline, intelligence, and organization within many of the already established organizations. If you are serious about making a change and ...

A report on an Indianapolis television station stated that controversial former Indiana University bacsketball coach was being sued by a man that Knight shot while hunting in 1999.The man , who was hit by a number of shotgun pellets, stated that the shooting was intentional and that Knight had persuaded the victim to keep quiet about it. The victim seeks damages and puitive awards in a civil suit.

Alexandria [Indiana} - Loosing a daughter is devasting enough.But when decorations started disappearing from the gravesite of Megan Hicks - a 16 year old killed in a train and truck accident two years ago - her mother simply couldn't handle it.So she took matters into her own hands. First she started writing Megan's name on every ornament. Then she installed a surveillancw camera near her daughter's grave.After watching the videotape police were able to arrest a visiting nurse from a nearby town - a woman who is now under investigation for an alleged grave decoration stealing spree.Police in the nurse's ...

An Anderson man - already arrested more than 400 times - is in trouble with the law again.Virldeen Redmond, 72, was arrested on a charge of public intoxication, a Class B misdemeanor. Redmond was released from prison Feb. 28 after he pleaded with Madison Circuit Judge Frederick Spencer to release him early because he did not want to diew in prison."I'm not going to get behind the wheel of no car and I'm not going to drink," Redmond said in a Jan.4 hearing.At the hearing Redmon's doctor trstified he suffered from heart disease and lung problems, and was being treated ...

A holdover from the Clinton administration, he's the quiet type. But lately the long-rumored but rarely seen West Wing mouse has become bolder. Mouse scares in the press area have been routine since at least the last year of the Clinton administration, with shouting reporters standing on chairs at the glimpse of a tail at the end of a gray, furry streak. However, the cameos have become so frequent lately that the working press is becoming less excitable -- and so is the mouse. A few weeks ago, the mouse casually strolled among desks in the cluttered press area ...

A call center established for Indiana residents to join a telephone privacy list has been overwhelmed with calls from people wanting to ensure telemarketers can't reach them.About 115, 000 Indiana residents have so far signed up for the list that will bar most telemarketers from callng them.Nearly 15, 000 of those people have signed up since Friday. One telephone user said she had called the toll-free number 35 times on Friday, Saturday and Sunday hoping to get through only to be told to call again.A new law, in effect January 1, requires all companies wanting to do business in Indiana ...

Under the aegis of Senator Evan Bayh [D-IN], the Democratic Leadership Council is currently meeting in Indianapolis. This is the organization that bills itself as the voice of the moderate Democrats. Along with attempted Democratic humor [Senator Daschle said, "I have to leave early. I have to mow Senator Jefford's grass."], there have been a number of speakers - notably Hillary Clinton who spent much of her time lauding Bayh.

Anybody else remember Richard Jewell?He's the man who, 5 years ago, found the bomb at the Atlanta Olympics and moved much of the crowd away. Afterwards, he was smeared by the liberal news media and the FBI as being the probable planter of the bomb and wasn't cleared for a number of days.Today Carmel, Indiana [suburb of Indianapolis, opulent, very Republican] held a Fourth of July parade honoring unsung American heroes. The marshall of the parade was Jewell. Jewell [today a policeman in suburban Atlanta] seemed very moved and honored by the attention. He said that he still has nightmares ...

There are reports that skater Tonya Harding, fresh from having her measurements augmented, is pushing to star in a nude review -- on ice -- in Las Vegas. Gossip columnist Neal Travis says Harding's handlers have already approached several Big Apple men's clubs about having her perform, off the ice, at their establishments. All, according to Travis, have declined to invite her. But the Sun newspaper in Las Vegas says the concept of a topless ice review, starring Harding, is being pitched. (Thanks to UPI Feature Reporter Dennis Daily)

During the primaries last year, John McCain presented himself as a pro-life, tax-cutting Reagan conservative. True, he departed from Republican orthodoxy in supporting campaign-finance regulation; and the tax cut he offered was more modest than the one George W. Bush did. But even these positions were presented as helpful to the larger conservative cause: His campaign-finance bill would reduce the power of special interests to block conservative policies, and a smaller tax cut would leave money to finance a free-market reform of Social Security. He even added that he would support a bigger tax cut if revenues kept growing. McCain's ...

McCAIN'S ECLIPSE [Jim Jeffords has made John McCain less relevant--for now.] Being John McCain can't have been fun over the last two weeks. Usually, it's McCain who gets to be the Republican who's causing his party leaders heartburn and who's described as a "maverick" by an adoring press. By leaving the Republican party, Jim Jeffords stole McCain's role. Even McCain's vote against Bush's tax cut--his boldest departure from Republican orthodoxy yet--was upstaged by Jeffords's even bolder departure. Sure, McCain got another opportunity to criticize Trent Lott and George W. Bush for not listening to dissenting voices in their party. But ...

A Fargo, N.D., man whose eyesight is limited to being able only to tell the difference between night and day has been granted a permit allowing him to carry a concealed weapon. Police in Cass County, N.D., said they do not have a problem with a vision-impaired person carrying a concealed gun. Sheriff's deputy Pat Healey noted that Carey McWilliams, 27, passed the same tests required of anyone else -- including a shooting test where he had to hit a black target from seven yards away. McWilliams said he wants to carry a pistol for his own protection.

Car and auto accessory plants are taking a real hit right now in Indiana, just in time for Christmas. The hardest hit is the Chrysler plant in Kokomo where over 1,000 are being laid off. Also affected are 300+ jobs in Cummins Diesel in Columbus, Delco workers in Anderson and other auto related jobs in Bloomington.

QUEEN WRINGS BIRD'S NECK Outrage as she strangles pheasant THIS is the moment that will shock every animal-lover in Britain. The Queen bends over a pheasant that had been shot and injured on her 20,000-acre Sandringham Estate in the name of sport - and wrings its neck. Last night her actions sparked outrage among animal rights campaigners. One said: "It's absolutely disgusting that the Queen should involve herself in something like this." The Queen - who does not shoot - had grabbed the bird from the jaws of one of her hunting labradors after it had been shot. The ...

Senator Dick Lugar [R-IN} has been projected a winner by the local Indianapolis NBC affiliate with about 70% of the vote.