MANCHESTER, Ky. — A woman in Kentucky has been charged with murder and domestic violence after a newborn baby was found dead in a trash bag earlier this month outside of her home. Amber Bowling, 21, was taken into custody on Dec. 12 after investigators connected her to the baby, who had been found two […]
STOCKBRIDGE, Mich. — A Michigan pastor says that he was tasered, threatened with a gun and robbed on Wednesday morning as he was awakened from his sleep while staying at the mission house he founded to help the homeless and others in need. According to reports, Billy Allen, 69, who runs Good Shepherd Mission in […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich has again vetoed a bill that would ban abortion when a heartbeat is detected, opining that the State would likely lose if the matter went to court and taxpayer money would consequently have to be used to pay the legal costs of abortion-supporting attorneys. “As governor, I […]
OPP, Ala. — One of the nation’s most conspicuous atheist groups, which says that it works to maintain the separation of Church and State, has lodged a complaint after a police department in Alabama posted a status this week noting that there have been five local murders this year—all committed by youth—and remarking that such […]
LANSING, Mich. — Lawmakers in Michigan have passed a package of bills that authorize emergency workers to install baby boxes at fire stations and other locations in an effort to save newborns that might otherwise be abandoned in dumpsters or killed by their mothers. “The purpose is so that children are not dumped in dumpsters […]
RICHMOND, Va. — The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously reversed a judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging a now-suspended “Bible in the Schools” program in West Virginia, stating that if an injunction had been issued, it would have assuaged a student and her atheist mother who took sent the girl to another school […]
PHOENIX, Ariz. — The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of two women who run an art studio and fear that a Phoenix non-discrimination ordinance could be used against them to force them to accept orders for same-sex celebrations or else face penalties that could include fines and/or jail time. Joanna Duka […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Transgender activists, with the backing of officials in the city of San Francisco, have established the world’s first “Transgender Cultural District” in the Tenderloin section of the city in order to “create a safe, welcoming and empowering neighborhood lead by trans people for trans people” and to “preserve the places where […]
An increasing number of public universities have decided to make contraceptives available to students via a campus vending machine, a concept that began being implemented over five years ago and is slowly spreading nationwide. According to reports, George Mason University in Virginia installed its vending machine in October following student interest, and Columbia University in […]
In a video released on Sunday, Roman Catholic bishop Robert Barron of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles told popular conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who identifies with Orthodox Judaism, that those “outside of the explicit Christian faith can be saved” by following their conscience, or in Shapiro’s case, “following the commandments of the Law sincerely.” He […]