GOOD HOPE, Ala. — It's one thing for a church in a big city like Dallas or Atlanta to tackle the ticklish topic of sex. It blends in with the urban scene. It's another thing when a small-town congregation puts up billboards with the phrase "Great sex: God's way" on rural highways to promote a ...

Former Cook County Republican Chairman Gary Skoien is denying a police report that said his wife found him at home with two prostitutes and beat him with her fists and a toy guitar. The report filled out by Barrington-Inverness police says that's what Eni Skoien told them -- and that Gary Skoien con...

Discussion of the financial collapse routinely touches on issues of solvency, liquidity, bundled securities and the collapsing housing market. But it rarely gets at the rampant fraud that helped bring the whole thing about. A Democratic bill introduced today aims to prevent a recurrence. On Tuesday,...

WASHINGTON — Severe depression may silently break a seemingly healthy woman's heart. Doctors have long known that depression is common after a heart attack or stroke, and worsens those people's outcomes. Monday, Columbia University researchers reported new evidence that depression can lead to ...

Two deadly attacks on Northern Ireland security forces in the past few days have raised fears that the province may be returning to an era of violence. Two British soldiers were shot dead over the weekend, and a police officer was killed Monday. The Irish people are now asking of their leaders, "Wha...

A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they had n...

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HARTFORD, Conn. — As Connecticut lawmakers consider updating state law to conform with a court ruling that allows same-sex marriages, opponents of gay marriage fear their effort will go too far to promote homosexuality. The legislators' work is spurred by last year's state Supreme Court decisi...

PUTNAM LAKE, N.Y. — A state assemblyman said he found a dead goat outside his suburban New York home and believes it represents a death threat against him. Republican Greg Ball said Friday he has been battling corruption in Putnam County and believes the threat comes from "entrenched interests...

WASHINGTON - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd is moving to allow the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to temporarily borrow as much as $500 billion from the Treasury Department. The Connecticut Democrat's effort - which comes in response to urging from FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Fed...