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DEFROCKED. THE REV. JIMMY CREECH, 55, United Methodist pastor who officiated at the union of lesbian and gay couples; in Grand Island, Neb. Creech said the verdict would "widen the wound of the soul" of the nation's third largest Christian church...
...Detroit suburb, and shot stranger Ronnie Greene, Jr. in the head. Abraham's lawyers claimed the shooting was accidental; they said he was taking potshots at some trees. The prosecution said he bragged to pals that he was going to kill someone. The trial ended Tuesday with a verdict of second-degree murder...
...prosecution capitalized on the error, dismissing the Vietnam scenario as a ludicrous ploy, and Johnson got the death sentence. The majority on the Missouri Supreme Court considered the defense's preparation good enough to let the result stand, because their mistake was not the "most likely" reason for the verdict and sentence...
There will probably be no clear verdict for months on what caused the demise of EgyptAir 990. That uncomfortable reality left many seeking explanations that sometimes bordered on the absurd. EgyptAir chairman Mohammed Fahim Rayan seemed ready to subscribe to a "new Bermuda Triangle theory"--namely that there is a curse on aircraft traveling up the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., a graveyard that now contains the remains not only of John F. Kennedy Jr. but also of some of the passengers and crew aboard TWA Flight 800. No less than Mubarak himself seemed taken with the theory, urging...
...child intentionally sets out to fail, yet many parents view grades as a verdict that requires them to administer reward or punishment. Though statistics are not available, there is ample anecdotal evidence that in households with a history of abuse, the punishment can be severe. And even parents who don't abuse their kids for getting bad grades often feel uncertain how to respond to C's, D's and F's--or even...