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August 14th, 2009 by Will O'Hargan

You know, when reading The Star Press, I get used to reading stories that make me sad inside. But this one just takes the cake. The guy used cow tranqs to have sex with an ex-girlfriend.
I’m not even going to make a joke.
Police: Cattle tranquilizer used in sex assault.

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A half-assed robbery spree was diffused by a laid-off cop today.
William Standard was arrested around 1:15 p.m. by Muncie patrolmen Darrin Clark and Brian Campbell, the latter a rookie officer who has been notified he will be laid off in a cost-cutting move previously announced by Mayor Sharon McShurley.

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For the sake of flow and ease of reading, journalists are trained to note word/verb positioning when writing headlines for print pages.
It’s a lot harder to do that for the Internet due to font family and size changes on different browsers.
Exhibit A: Note the headline break in the middle column. Click to enlarge the image.

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Just about every day pointless non-binding resolutions are passed through the house to recognize various things that Congressman want to recognize. Usually they are passed without objection, with anyone who doesn’t want to support it just not voting. But a couple days ago a bill was passed recognizing 3/14 as National Pi Day. A seemingly [...]

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When we were but young children there was no greater joy than a snow day. Not only did this mean that we would not have to go to school on that day, but it also meant that there was enough snow on the ground to provide us with stuff to play in. However, now that [...]

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As Mother Nature shoves Muncie in the deep freezer – somewhere between the bulk mini-corn dogs and those 500 meatballs left over from your high school graduation – everyone’s all atwitter about how miserably cold it is.
It is, in fact, miserably cold.
Listen carefully and you’ll notice a trend in phrasing this time of year. Never [...]

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