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Lawyer pleads not guilty for Al Unser Jr. in Henderson DUI case
A lawyer entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser Junior today on charges including driving under the influence in a Las Vegas-area crash. The 45-year-old Unser didn't have to appear in person before a Henderson judge -- who set trial for July 11th. Unser's lawyer says he thinks the case might be resolved before that. Unser was arrested January 25th on charges of driving under the influence, misdemeanor hit and run, failure to render aid in an accident and failure to report an accident. The Nevada Highway Patrol said he failed field sobriety tests after he was stopped in a black Ford Excursion that witnesses said sideswiped a Mazda sedan on the Las Vegas Beltway. The Mazda crashed, but the NHP said the driver reported no injuries at the scene.
Friction surprises Buddhist leaders
To many, it looks like ordinary gray pea gravel. But to some in southeast Fort Wayne, it marks a religious and cultural divide. The gravel, in the front yard of Jetavan Vihara Temple at 1204 Sylvia St. off Decatur Road, showed up a year or so ago – after neighbors complained that some of the Burmese Buddhist temple's numerous visitors were, contrary to city ordinances, parking on the front lawn. "(The city) comes out and says, 'Just put gravel in the yard and make it a parking lot, and you'll be all right.' So now they've got gravel in their front yard. This has just totally lowered the value of my house," says Donna Davis of 1208 Sylvia St., an upset neighbor. During the past six years, Davis says, Sylvia Street neighbors' patience has been tried by some of the city's newest residents.
Lawsuit filed over burial funds
Several residents of Madison and nearby Kentucky counties have sued four banks and past owners of a Jefferson County cemetery for allegedly mishandling $4 million that customers paid in advance for funerals and burial services. The class-action lawsuit, filed Friday in Marion Circuit Court in Indianapolis, is the first over alleged irregularities at Grandview Memorial Gardens, a privately owned cemetery on U.S. 421. .
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