City residents to decide tax hike - Rutland Herald
Alderman Dave Dress said such an illustration of the real costs individual departments will have for the taxpayers was one of the reasons he favored breaking the budget out on the ballot. He and Aldermen Kevin Coleman and Joe Tilden were the only

Indonesian court clears boy of bee prank - France 24
Photo illustration of a bee. An Indonesian schoolboy was cleared of serious abuse charges Monday for stinging a female classmate with a bee, a "crime" that took the country's legal system a year to resolve. AFP - An Indonesian schoolboy was cleared

S. Korea eyes demanding Japan's repatriation of books from Joseon - Big Hollywood
Dynasty+ (AP) - SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Kyodo)—South Korea may officially demand that Japan return about 660 books that it took away during its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, officials of the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea said