Cleanup crews often first response to ravaged areas

May 12, 2011

The piercing roar of a chain saw is typically nothing more than loud racket to most people. But to those who suffered the horrific devastation

‘But Even if He Does Not …’

May 12, 2011

I don’t understand how God can let something like this happen to such good people,” a confused young man said as he picked through the

Meals prepared, served by disaster relief volunteers near 100,000

May 12, 2011

Some 180 trained Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers are stirring, baking and packaging more than 30,000 meals a day at feeding units across Alabama. With

Medicinal marijuana survives repeal in Montana

May 5, 2011

HELENA, Mont. — Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat, vetoed a bill April 13 that would have repealed the state’s medicinal marijuana law, which has

New Idaho law bans physician-assisted suicide

May 5, 2011

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter signed into law April 4 a ban on physician-assisted suicide. Idaho’s outlawing of assisted suicide broke a

Oklahoma 4th state to ban pain-capable abortion

May 5, 2011

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma has become the fourth state — and third state this year — to enact a ban on abortions of unborn babies

N.Y. minister named religious freedom ambassador

May 5, 2011

WASHINGTON — A New York minister will soon fill the Obama administration’s long-vacant position to oversee international religious freedom after the Senate voted to confirm