Ace Party Rental

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.

Circus denies its use of animals is ‘cruel’

They have a state of the art horse transporter unit, which compares equally with those of top race horses, police horses etc. Please remember we are not talking wild animals here. Thankyou for reading this, and I hope you support Zippo's great circus, and stop these animal rights narrow minded do gooders from taking another special part of our lives away.! .

Police are confident inquiry will bring quick results

Police in Durham have also been drawn into the affair after Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat leadership contender, questioned the way that a company controlled by Abrahams was given permission to build a business park in the county after he made a donation to Labour.

Later, the Conservatives revealed that shadow minister Eric Pickles had written to communities secretary Hazel Blears calling for a Whitehall inquiry into the circumstances behind the granting of planning permission for the Durham Green business park development.

Pickles also asked whether Blears had had any contact with Abrahams while a minister. "I am sure you will agree that suggestions that donors to the Labour party may have influenced any government decision are extremely damaging to public life, and it is essential that you take steps to prove conclusively that this was not the case," he wrote.