Intelligent design loses in Kansas election
Less than a year after the Kansas Board of Education adopted science standards that were the most wide-reaching in the nation in challenging Darwin's theory of evolution, voters on Tuesday...
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Shooter’s family suspects Prozac
In their sleepless search for answers, the family members of Jeff Weise, the teenager who killed nine people and then himself, say they are left wondering about the drugs Weise...
NASA assures critics panel will be fair
An independent board on Thursday took control of the space shuttle investigation as NASA sought to stem criticism of the panel by offering to add members and by granting it...
’86 haunts city in Alabama
For residents in this space-driven city, there is a personal connection to the space shuttles and nothing can assuage the grief over the demise of Columbia. But one thing could...
`Abnormal’ temperature spike preceded Columbia breakup
Minutes before the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas, monitors showed an "abnormal" rise in temperatures along the craft's left wing and wheel well, NASA officials said Sunday. The rise...
No place to call home
For a child his age, Jason has had few possessions, but he did have his own, worn suitcase. He has slept in cribs and beds in 13 homes, on Chicago's...
DCFS says state won’t be strained
The decision to bar new children from being sent to Maryville Academy will not overwhelm the system, state officials said Monday, because the state's more than 100 other facilities have...
This time, Florida, Georgia get it right
In the first major test of voting reforms designed to make it easier to cast a ballot, eyes turned Tuesday to Florida and Georgia -- two states that overhauled their...
HOWARD B. EISENBERG, 55
Howard B. Eisenberg, 55, the Marquette University Law School dean who emerged on the national stage two weeks ago because of his role on the panel investigating claims of sexual...
Priest’s removal `difficult’ for parish
Three days after learning that their beloved former pastor had been relieved of his duties because of allegations of sexual misconduct, hundreds of parishioners gathered Tuesday night at St. James...