Couple's book tackles evangelicals' questions on climate change
As an evangelical Christian living in Texas, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe found that many conservatives had questions about climate change based on things they'd heard on talk radio. So Hayhoe and her husband decided to answer the questions in a new book from religious publisher FaithWords, "A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-based Decisions." | 11/06/09 19:39:49 By - Renee Schoof
Are 'dress codes' a cloak for racial discrimination?
Seven members of an African-American family have complained to the Missouri Commission on Human Rights that a Kansas City nightclub barred them while allowing similarly attired white patrons to enter. | 11/06/09 17:23:08 By - Lynn Horsley and Matt Campbell
Military finds 75 percent of today's youth can't serve
The biggest long-term threat to U.S. national security might not be terrorists or weapons of mass destruction. According to a group of military leaders, it's homegrown obesity, ignorance and criminality, which together make seven of 10 target-age recruits ineligible to serve in the American armed forces. | 11/06/09 17:19:01 By - Martha Quillan
Californians losing jobs find state health safety net badly frayed
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Robin Willer slumps on the metal bench, her sweater drawn up over her swollen cheeks. "The cold hurts it," she says, pointing gingerly to three broken teeth. | 11/06/09 15:06:00 By - Janet Wilson
Ad seeking co-eds for sex-toy study roils Duke (study's full)
The ads, which were posted around campus and on a research study Web site, sought female students at least 18 years old to "view sex toys and engage in sexually explicit conversation with other female Duke students." The study is being undertaken by a behavioral economist and student health workers. | 11/06/09 15:10:33 By - Anne Blythe
Doubt cast on stimulus' impact on California jobs
In a required state report to the federal government, the California State University system claimed last week that federal stimulus spending had saved more jobs than the number of jobs saved in Texas and 44 other states. Turns out many of those jobs were never at risk, state university officials said. | 11/06/09 09:35:49 By - Phillip Reece
Bill would ease San Joaquin Valley water swaps
San Joaquin Valley farmers could swap water more easily under a bill floated Thursday before a Senate panel. | 11/05/09 17:09:00 By - Michael Doyle
S.C. Supreme Court declines to intervene on Sanford ethic charges
The S.C. Supreme Court has decided not to intervene in a dispute over a forthcoming report from the State Ethics Commission into allegations against Gov. Mark Sanford. The court denied both Sanford's request to keep the report secret and a state House of Representative's request to require the commission give a copy of the report to lawmakers, who considering impeaching the two-term, Republican governor. | 11/05/09 16:30:42 By - Staff reports
Report: Dugard initially denied her identity in kidnapping
When Jaycee Lee Dugard resurfaced in August, she denied being the 11-year-old girl kidnapped in 1991 and defended Phillip Garrido as a "great person." She became defensive as officers questioned her, then asked for a lawyer. She tried to convince police she was fleeing an abusive husband in Minnesota. Then the young woman told police the truth, ending the 18-year mystery of her disappearance. | 11/05/09 16:07:06 By - Sam Stanton
Fort Hood shooter was Army psychiatrist who treated stress
At least 12 people were killed and 31 wounded in a mass shooting at Fort Hood Army Base near Killeen, Texas, when at least one gunman opened fire on soldiers preparing to be deployed. The shooting broke out at the base's readiness center at about 1:30 p.m. The gunman, identified as Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was captured alive. Investigators were trying to determine if he had accomplices. | 11/05/09 15:49:14 By - Dave Montgomery and Nancy A. Youssef
Competing programs hamper Kentucky's prescription drug abuse fight
Kentucky lawmakers are at the center of a political feud over how to best derail the so-called "pain-pill pipeline" from Florida to the Bluegrass State, a multi-state trafficking scheme that has contributed heavily to the state's crippling prescription drug addiction epidemic. A program that bears a powerful Kentucky congressman's name has received four times more funding than another program backed by other less senior lawmakers from the state. | 11/08/09 06:00:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
Actor Willie Aames makes comeback after bankruptcy, homelessness
In our last episode of “Willie Aames Confidential,” the onetime star of TV’s “Eight Is Enough” and “Charles in Charge” was holding a yard sale in front of his foreclosed home in Olathe. Eight months have passed since then, and the 49-year-old Aames has since begun an extreme makeover — not of his house, but of his life. | 11/05/09 15:27:46 By - Aaron Barnhart
Python hoax leads to charges against Bradenton trapper
A well-known Bradenton nuisance-animal trapper, who admitted to staging the capture of a 14-foot python on July 25, has been arrested on charges stemming from the hoax. | 11/05/09 14:52:24 By - Robert Napper
Official probe clears officers in raid of Fort Worth gay bar
Two state agents did not use excessive force against three bar patrons arrested during a June bar check at the Rainbow Lounge, an internal investigation by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has found. In addition, allegations that the Rainbow Lounge was targeted in the bar check by the TABC agents and Fort Worth police because it is a gay bar also was unfounded, according to findings of the investigation released by TABC officials Thursday morning. | 11/05/09 14:40:49 By - Deanna Boyd and Mike Lee
NRA wants adoption agencies to drop gun ownership questions
The National Rifle Association is pushing legislation to ban adoption agencies from asking potential parents if they have guns and ammunition in the home. NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer said adoption agencies are violating gun-owners' rights by asking about firearms in an adoption form and the practice is tantamount to establishing a federal gun registry. | 11/05/09 07:09:12 By - Marc Caputo
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