Tropical Storm Hanna blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia Saturday, but caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it quickly headed north toward New England.
0Hurricane Gustav weakened to a Category 2 storm as it steamed toward the Louisiana coast early Monday, on track to hit west of New Orleans as the few remaining in the city watched nervously and hoped levees only partly reinforced in the three years since Katrina would hold.
1Billboards touting freedom from religion and separation of church and state are going up around the downtown Phoenix area.
77A proposal aimed at effectively banning gays and lesbians from becoming foster or adoptive parents was cleared Monday to appear on this fall's ballot in Arkansas. The measure would prohibit unmarried couples living together from adopting children.
7As hundreds of firefighters bowed their heads in prayer, a cross made out of steel from the World Trade Center was dedicated Sunday near where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into the ground on Sept. 11.
1Thousands of Iraqi refugees have arrived in the United States as part of a nationwide resettlement program to bring 12,000 Iraqis to the United States by the end of next month, officials said.
0Police say a church van overturned on an Alabama interstate, killing the driver and sending five passengers to the hospital.
0The Wilson County Fair will offer atheists a God & Country Day discount admission on Sunday. Fair officials had been offering a church bulletin discount to Christian groups, but expanded it to others after a complaint.
3Like others returning from a religious festival in Missouri, Hoang Vu stopped at the spot where a charter bus carrying fellow Vietnamese Catholics on the pilgrimage had crashed and killed 17 people.
0California Chief Justice Ronald George has spent more than half his life cultivating an image of a cautious jurist and earning a reputation as a politically skilled court administrator.
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