ALLENTOWN — A Pennsylvania woman is facing criminal homicide charges after her newborn son was found dumped in the toilet tank in the women’s restroom at a local bar. Reports state that 26-year-old Amanda Hein hid her pregnancy from virtually everyone–including her grandmother, whom she lived with–and concealed the fact that she was in labor […]

TRENTON — The New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles has approved a vanity license plate that was initially rejected by the Commission over its reference to atheism. David Silverman, the president of American Atheists headquartered in Cranford, recently applied for a vanity plate bearing the moniker “ATHE1ST” (with the number 1 instead of the letter […]

BILLINGS — A public protest is scheduled outside of a county courthouse in Montana today after a Yellowstone County judge issued a 30-day jail term, plus 15 years supervised probation, to a teacher who raped a teen that later committed suicide while proceedings were underway. District Judge G. Todd Baugh has come under heavy criticism […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of State has announced that it will be sending a special envoy to North Korea this weekend in an attempt to secure the release of an American missionary that has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the country. The government announced the visit on Tuesday, outlining that […]

SIOUX FALLS — A businessman in South Dakota is using Scripture to counter atheist billboards that have been erected in the city of Sioux Falls. The South Dakota Coalition of Reason had purchased billboard space in seven locations throughout the state, including in Rapid City, Brookings and Sioux Falls. The simple billboards read, “Don’t believe […]

SEATTLE — Washington Attorney General Robert Ferguson and Deputy Solicitor Alan Copsey recently released an opinion outlining that state law requires publicly-funded hospitals to provide abortion services if they also offer maternity care. “I fully expect all public hospital districts to comply with this opinion,” Ferguson stated at a recent news conference. The opinion was […]

JACKSON — A pro-life Christian that has been working to close the last remaining abortion facility in Mississippi says that he plans to appeal his recent conviction to the Hinds County court system. As previously reported, Cal Zastrow stood trial in city court in Jackson last Monday for three misdemeanor charges incurred while conducting pro-life […]

COOS BAY — Police in Coos Bay, Oregon are investigating an explosion that was set off late last week near a Vietnam veterans war memorial cross that has been at the center of controversy since February. As previously reported, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter to Coos Bay officials this past spring, […]

TEHRAN — An appeals court in Iran has rejected an appeal on behalf of an American pastor incarcerated in one of the most notorious prisons in the country, and has refused to reduce his sentence despite growing international pressure. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which has been fighting for the release of […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A federal judge has refused to dismiss an international lawsuit filed by a Ugandan homosexual activist group, which accuses an American pastor of committing ‘crimes against humanity’ for speaking out against homosexual behavior in the country. As previously reported, Massachusetts Pastor Scott Lively, the author of “The Pink Swastika,” had visited the […]