Allegations surface to halt vote on gay bishop
Just hours before a confirmation vote on Rev. V. Gene Robinson as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, the denomination's bishops on Monday put the vote on...
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Fears of terrorism foster spying career opportunities
Fears of a terrorist threat, fueled by the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq war, have prompted Pedro Becerra to consider abandoning his job as a claims adjuster at the...
Measures to keep food supply safe are on the table
The war in Iraq and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have sparked a widespread movement by federal agencies, farmers and grocers to upgrade security "from the stable to the table"...
Oscar broadcast to be as scheduled–for now
The Oscars will go on, at least for now. Producers of the movie industry's creme de la creme event said Friday that the Sunday live broadcast on ABC-TV will go...
Club safety takes center stage
Confronted by a staggering death toll from nightclub disasters in Chicago and Rhode Island, city inspectors and music club owners around the country have been jolted into critical examinations of...
Many moderate churches take up anti-war cause
Borrowing a theme from the old black spiritual, "Ain't Gonna Study War No More," Rev. Cecil Murray stood in the pulpit at First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles...
Disaster a blow for space station too
The shuttle Columbia disaster is focusing new attention--favorable and unfavorable--on NASA's $100 billion International Space Station, a stadium-size structure orbiting 240 miles above Earth that is billed as the most...
Astronaut ‘always made me smile’
Shuttle astronaut Kalpana Chawla was a quiet, modest vegetarian who liked to jog with her pilot husband near their brick home on a tree-lined street in the Houston suburb of...
FBI says sex ring victims talking
Nearly a week after the arrest of the man the FBI says masterminded a multistate prostitution ring, possible victims continue to step forward and the 17-year-old girl and security guard...
Cops relate sex-ring saga of man called `Chicago’
Since a 17-year-old girl begged a security guard for help last week at a Detroit shoe store, at least a dozen girls and young women in recent days have told...