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Female inmates at a prison in Indiana have filed lawsuits alleging they were subjected to a "night of terror" when a guard sold keys to their cells to male prisoners who sexually assaulted them. In a pair of lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court, a total of 28 women said they were attacked shortly after midnight on the night of October 23, 2021 at the Clark County jail in Jeffersonville. The female prisoners accused a guard at the facility, David Lowe, of providing the key to the male inmates for $1,000.

LAPORTE — Law enforcement in LaPorte County is preparing for the possibility of an already-congested and dangerous U.S. 20 being overrun with more semi-trucks as drivers avoid the 35 percent cost increase of traveling the Indiana Toll Road. Much of that stretch of highway being down to one lane in each direction for resurfacing adds to the concerns. LaPorte County Sheriff John Boyd said he’s reached out to Indiana State Police to help patrol U.S. 20 if an increase in truck traffic becomes too much for his staff to handle alone. “We’re going to prepare for it,” Boyd said. “We’re...

The grounds of Tazewell's Crab Orchard Museum hosted the sixth annual Skirmish at Jeffersonville this past Saturday. I stopped by during a lull in the fighting and took a few pictures. Actually, the re-enactors seem to spend considerable time socializing and very little in actual hostilities -- probably for the best, considering that the age of many of the re-enactors is close to mine, i.e., getting along in years. [Pictures of brass cannons, caissons, muskets, camp cookery and such]

Okay, folks, spring is here -- time to get out and about and, uh, fire off a couple of black powder volleys. Civil War re-enactors take heed -- the Historic Crab Orchard Museum in Tazewell County, Virginia, will host the 6th Annual Skirmish at Jeffersonville on April 16-18, 2010. The Skirmish features living history camps, demonstrations, and battle reenactments complete with percussion muskets and black-powder artillery volleys.