http://www.dailyitem.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:49:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_098104952.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_098104952.html An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:22:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_095102254.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_095102254.html A would-be bank robber came away empty-handed but left behind something useful for police: her photo identification. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:20:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_094102113.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_094102113.html Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian? On a winter break trip with his family to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, the 11-year-old southwestern Michigan boy noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, mistakenly identified the Precambrian as an era. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:19:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_094102014.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_094102014.html Arkansas’ marriage-age crisis is over. A law that mistakenly allowed anyone — even toddlers — to marry with parental permission was repealed by a measure signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Mike Beebe, ending months of embarrassment for the state and confusion for county clerks. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:18:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_094101812.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_094101812.html When Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Louisiana Sen. David Vitter were named in sex scandals, the lawmakers largely shunned the public eye before discussing allegations of marital infidelities. But Sen. Debbie Stabenow mostly kept to her schedule Wednesday, hours after news broke that her husband told authorities he had a $150 encounter with a prostitute. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:03:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_093110221.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_093110221.html A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:53:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_092105414.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_092105414.html John Voit’s sons live for the theatrics of World Wrestling Entertainment — the larger-than-life characters, the fierce rivalries and the showy pyrotechnics. All that changed at WrestleMania 24 Sunday night when a fireworks-show malfunction dropped live rockets into the cheering fans below. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:51:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_092105152.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_092105152.html Authorities say a man robbed a bank in South Carolina after the $173 check he tried to cash bounced. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:39:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_091083918.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_091083918.html William M. Bowen woke up after a night of drinking with friends and realized he was inside a commercial trash-collection truck full of waste. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:36:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_091083729.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_091083729.html Police in La Crosse are a little red-faced right now. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:09:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_088110932.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_088110932.html A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:38:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_087103952.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_087103952.html Ultimate fighting was once the sole domain of burly men who beat each other bloody in anything-goes brawls on pay-per-view TV. But the sport often derided as “human cockfighting” is branching out. The bare-knuckle fights are now attracting competitors as young as 6 whose parents treat the sport as casually as wrestling, Little League or soccer. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:37:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_080103818.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_080103818.html man whose girlfriend authorities say spent nearly two years in a bathroom in their house, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered her body, has been charged with mistreatment of a dependent adult. Kory McFarren, 37, was charged Monday in Ness County District Court. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:25:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_080102619.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_080102619.html A man who pretended to be a CEO complaining about his fast-food order in a taco scam was sentenced to 30 days in jail after authorities saw the prank in an online video. Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:18:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_078101857.html http://www.dailyitem.com/national_news/local_story_078101857.html History re-enactors posing as Old West gunslingers here need to follow some modern rules, the sheriff says: Guns and alcohol don’t mix.