Vitti's First-Year Budget Woes

Competing interests fight for school dollars 
as superintendent is forced to pull back on some plans

Hot Bullets, Cold Truth

How to prepare for the investigators, lawyers, revenge seekers and media hounds after shooting an attacker in self-defense

Get Smart, Get Practiced, Get Ready

Tips for choosing a gun, holster, bullets and training

Eyeing a New Place for Tattoos 4 hours ago

Apparently running out of space on his body (which is two-thirds tattooed), Brazilian Rodrigo Fernando dos Santos has moved up to his eyeballs. According to the body-modification website BME.com, eyeball-tattooing is safe if done correctly, which …

Iran's Nuclear Irony 4 hours ago

The United Nations Conference on Disarmament, a multilateral forum on arms control agreements, was chaired beginning May 27 (until June 23) by Iran, which, for that time, at least, had the awkward job of overseeing resolutions on nuclear …

The Best Health Care the House Can Buy 4 hours ago

In May, the Florida House of Representatives adjourned for the year without assessing themselves even a nominal increase in health insurance premiums for their own taxpayer-funded deluxe coverage, which will remain at $8.34 per month for individuals …

Abstaining Annoyance 4 hours ago

The Ypsilanti, Mich., City Council voted in May on a resolution that would've required the members always to vote either "yes" or "no" (to reduce the recent, annoying number of "abstain" votes). The resolution to ban abstaining failed: Three of the …

Strange, Sore Loser 4 hours ago

Keith Judd filed a lawsuit in Iowa in May, in essence to invalidate the 2012 election by having President Barack Obama officially declared a Kenyan and not an American. Judd filed the papers from a federal penitentiary in Texas, where he's serving …

They Picked the Wrong Car 4 hours ago

Paul Gardener and Chad Leakey were arrested in Tempe, Ariz., in May, charged with a spree of car burglaries. According to police, the men were trying various cars' doors, looking for unlocked ones, when they inadvertently opened the back door of an …

70-year-old Strong Man 4 hours ago

Timothy Adams, 24, was charged with home invasion in May in Gardner, Mass., but only after resident Michael Salame slammed him into the floor. Salame, 70 years old, has had eight heart stents, and must wear special coverings on his arms at night …