| Peoria County police break up Web-advertised drinking party
Forty-seven young people were arrested after police broke up a large drinking party Friday night at a rental home in one of the city's historic neighborhoods. The party, advertised on the Facebook.com social networking Web site, attracted more than 100 revelers. It was billed as a "triple-kegger" with an additional attraction of pudding wrestling, police said. While most of those arrested were from Tazewell and Peoria counties, some were from Bloomington and the Chicago suburbs of Hazel Crest and Mount Prospect. The arrested ranged in age from 15 to 20 and were cited with underage drinking and other offenses. "Forty-seven youths were caught at the party, and there were others who got away before we could catch them," Washington Police Chief James Kuchenbecker said Sunday. "That's what scares the hell out of me more than anything else.
Homestead building moratorium passes first test
Indeed, the council in October 2006 approved an amendment to the city's development master plan that would allow for the mixed-use project. But the state Department of Community Affairs -- which reviews municipal land-use changes -- shot the amendment back to the city on a technicality, city staff said. The master plan change now has to go through the process all over again. An attorney for the Algers said the family wanted a firm guarantee that once the amendment passes state scrutiny, a moratorium wouldn't prevent the Algers from getting the land rezoned and site plan approval. Without such a guarantee, said attorney Santiago Echemendia, the Algers would not immediately pony up the $9 million for the Turnpike construction -- and that an agreement with the Turnpike Authority was pending.
While The Cat’s Away, The Terrorists Will Play
It is well understood that when a person works hard and is taught the value of human life, integrity, and compassion, that person will become a contributing member of society. The likelihood is there will be no run-ins with the law and a person raised in this fashion will enhance the quality of life of those he or she touches. Within our own country, we need to emphasize and model these values in our public and private institutions. We need to place a priority on the importance of love, honor, and respect in families. We need to secure to the best of our ability everyone's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and balance that against what it means to be a contributing and participating member of a community. The reason our Constitution works is because everyone who lives by the rule of law understands that there is no other law that takes precedence.
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