By William Ketter
CNHI

The scenario is disturbing. A deputy sheriff sues the Terre Haute Tribune-Star for libel because it published a sworn citizen’s complaint against him. After four years of preliminary legal wrangling, an emotional trial ensues. Without regard to time-honored judicial precedent or the expressed purpose of the First Amendment, the jurors find in favor of the deputy sheriff and award him $1.5 million in damages – one of the highest defamation judgments in Indiana history.

OU wide receiver Ryan Broyles hauls in a catch in front of Cincinnati's Brandon Underwood Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008.
Norman Transcript photo by Kevin Ellis.

Editor: Note Content

By Robin L. Quillon
The Tribune-Democrat

It’s true that we can’t choose our parents or relatives. To be sure, political candidates certainly wish they could exclude certain people who choose to support them.
Let’s take a look at one such supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, rapper extraordinaire and Democratic activist P. Diddy.
I feel sorry for the leaders in the Obama camp and I bet they wish they could make this supporter go away until after the election.

By Ralph Couey
The Tribune-Democrat

Seven years ago this week, in the space of two hours, the world was changed.
Our nation was changed. We were changed. We were suddenly and brutally taken from a world of the familiar and plunged into another world. A world of dark uncertainty. A world dominated by shock, pain and horror.
At first, our senses refused to accept the reality of the images transmitted to us. Desperately, we were hoping that the disaster unfolding before our eyes was some Hollywood concoction, or perhaps just a bad dream.

By Chip Minemyer
The Tribune-Democrat

Chad Johnson doesn’t know much about Spanish, but he knows numbers matter.
The pro football player has officially changed his name to “Ocho Cinco” because his uniform number is “85.”
Never mind that 85 in Spanish is actually “ochenta y cinco” (“ocho cinco” means “eight five”), the Cincinnati Bengals receiver is not the first to connect his identity with a number.