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A Pennsylvania pastor said Thursday that he will appeal United Methodist Church officials’ decision to defrock him for presiding over his gay son’s wedding in Massachusetts, an act that goes against the edicts of the denomination.Rev. Frank Schaefer of Lebanon, Pa.
A "criminal group" of six men – all current or former prisoners – were charged Thursday in a scheme that used bogus court papers to let two convicted murders walk away from a Florida prison, authorities said.
Five of the six U.S. soldiers who were killed in a helicopter crash this week while serving with NATO forces in Afghanistan were assigned to the same Kansas base, the Defense Department said Thursday in releasing their identities.
New Mexico became the latest state to legalize gay marriage Thursday as its highest court declared it is unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. Justice Edward L.
A Marine died in a freak skydiving accident in Australia over the weekend during a trip his wife won on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.Gunnery Sgt.
Some 30 equipment and repair technicians at an Amazon.com warehouse in Middletown, Del., will vote on joining the Machinists (IAM) in a National Labor Relations Board election set for Jan. 15. Even though the election will cover just a handful of the center’s 1,500 employees, Amazon has hired “a labor law firm that’s battled with unions in the past,” reports the Seattle Times. Amazon has a long history of fighting workers’ attempts to join a union, dating back to a 2000 drive by workers at an Amazon call center in Seattle.
They didn't expect to see Santa Claus at the picket line. But St. Nick is full of surprises. Yesterday, Santa Claus brought almost 1,000 presents for the families of nearly 800 locked-out nurses and health techs at Lawrence + Memorial (L+M) Hospital.
A suburban Detroit man who fatally shot a teen on his porch in the middle of the night will stand trial for murder, a judge ruled Thursday.
What would you do if someone called you a whore? What if that person was referring to your co-worker, your wife, your sister or even your daughter?
Al Goldstein, the bearded, bird-flipping publisher of Screw magazine who smashed down legal barriers against pornography and raged against politicians, organized religion and anything that even suggested good taste, died Thursday, according to a friend. He was 77.
