It’s the dead of winter. As Santa Claus rings his bells on a pavement in Brooklyn, a hot dog vendor wanders into a bar. That’s when the commotion begins. A drug dealer with a knife bursts out of the ...

Half a pound of marijuana was confiscated from a Valparaiso apartment last week, not exactly the Porter County version of the French Connection drug ring. And we wonder why our jails are overcrowded.