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,...

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but readers of Romenesko's Obscure Store and Reading Room know that as the weather turns warmer, the uptick in news stories involving parents who mistakenly leave their infant children in cars - often with fatal conclusions - begins anew. Over time, the litany of...

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...

Central to CNBC's Jim Cramer's self-defense in recent days is the argument that his nemesis Jon Stewart is a "comedian" who runs a "variety show." Naturally, my first reaction is: UHM, HAVE YOU SEEN MAD MONEY? That show is like a Ralph Bakshi cartoon, with Cramer yelling unintelligibly while manical...

On last night's Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann offered up what amounted to an autopsy of the market collapse that is so densely well-informed that it defies a tidy paragraph of summation. Suffice it to say, it's the incredibly true story of how a whole system of regulations were thwarted and def...

In case you were wondering, CNBC's Jim Cramer -- in addition to his appearance on The Today Show -- brought his damage-control act to the General Electric Morning Joe Infotainment Show Tuesday morning, in accordance with the ancient prophesies of Six Sigma. You can thrill to the exquisite sadness of...

Erin Burnett and Jim Cramer made an appearance on the TODAY Show Tuesday morning, filled with much the same rote nonsense that you hear on the TV every day. How can President Obama, as President, dare to do more than one thing at a time? There are too many bills for Erin Burnett to read, in between ...