• School Board Abandons Evolution Sticker Case

  A suburban school board that put stickers in high school science books saying evolution is 'a theory, not a fact' abandoned its legal battle to keep them Tuesday after four years.

• Nativity Statues Worth Over $1 Million Stolen

  Thieves using a blowtorch broke into a church in Naples and made off with hundreds of 19th-century shepherd statues from a Nativity scene, the police said Monday.

• Church Remembers Christmas Bombing 50 Years Ago

  In a new building and with the mayor and hometown congressman on hand, Bethel Baptist Church commemorated the 50th anniversary of the racist bombing that targeted the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth as he led

• 'Blue Christmas' Church Services Attract the Depressed, Joyless

  There were no jolly Christmas carols to be found at the Cannon Memorial Chapel. No festive branches of holly. No smiling faces or hearty wishes of happiness.

• Public Misinformed about Stem Cells

  Research on embryonic stem cells continues to ignite national debate over the beginning of human life. And with the Legislature likely to take up the issue in its next session, many worry that inaccur