Assuming it was necessary to save your life, how would you like to have brain surgery performed by a physician who had just lost $100,000 in the stock market? Well, believe it or not, I have a true story to tell you today that is far more serious than a single brain surgery, as serious as that is, b...

By CHARLES C. HAYNES School officials in Lake City, Arkansas have come up with a novel solution to the fight over prayer at graduation: No prayer, no graduation.

A week ago I was talking with someone on my job and she asked me how my son (Marcus Jr.) died. She said, "I hope you don't mind me asking." So I told her what happened and the reason and how he died.

VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican denies there were any internal divisions over its crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns after a top Vatican official complained that the Holy See's reform project had caused him "much pain.

Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said, "I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket, trying to lift himself up by the handle.

On Dec. 14, 2012, the unspeakable happened once again in our country. On this date, a young man who was armed to the teeth entered the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and opened fire on everything that moved.

It is windy and looks like rain. This whole week seems to have been rainy and stormy. Yesterday we managed to get half of our laundry dried before the rain came. This morning I went to a few local Amish garage sales.

If you read last week's column you know that today is the second in a two-part series about Dr. Ben Carson, famous pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Md.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A judge is defending her decisions in the trial of the first Catholic Church official in the United States to be charged and convicted in the cover-up of the priest abuse scandal. Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge M.

VATICAN CITY (AP) - The global economic crisis is hitting Vatican employees in their cassock pockets.