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(McLean, Virginia) The School board in Arlington County, Virginia has agreed to allow a so-called ex-gay group to post material for high school students claiming homosexuality can be reversed. It will, however be left to individual schools to accept the material if they have areas where...

By Laura Parker, USA TODAY When does the freedom to practice religion become discrimination? The California Supreme Court is being asked to answer that question when it hears a legal dispute between a lesbian mom and two doctors who refused to artificially inseminate her for religious reasons...

Animal Liberation Front saboteurs have threatened to make an example of an Oregon primate researcher, possibly with firebombs, if he doesn't "quit the torture industry and issue an apology" for his work. The underground group, which the FBI characterizes as a domestic terrorist organization, has...

BRANTFORD, Ont. (CP) - A group of aboriginal protesters set up an information booth alongside a highway in southern Ontario Friday in an effort to raise awareness about their land claims in Brantford, Ont. Aboriginal spokeswoman Janie Jamieson said the group held an "educational awareness...

By Jeremy Hainsworth VANCOUVER (CP) - A convicted war criminal living in Vancouver is in jail this weekend after the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld an extradition order made after a request from Italy, which has convicted the man in absentia. Michael Seifert was sentenced to life after being...

By Martin Ouellet KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Canadian troops are not the only foreign military that can complete the rebuilding effort in Afghanistan beyond 2009, a top Canadian commander said on Sunday. "Whether we accomplish it ourselves, or it's accomplished by others, it doesn't...

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) -- Debbie Hulleman's dog Pepper has been known to gnaw on lipstick, munch on shampoo bottles and chew on toothpaste. But Pepper got Hulleman into a real mess after gobbling nearly $750. "This is probably the worst," Hulleman said Thursday, recalling how she poked through...

BY ABDON M. PALLASCH In a lifetime of using her feet the way most people use their hands, Dawn Larson never felt as discriminated against as she did at McDonald's, she said. Born with Holt-Oram Syndrome, Larson has diminutive hands about six inches from her shoulder. That has...

By ALISA TANG, Associated Press Unable to scrounge together the $165 he needed to repay a loan to buy sheep, Nazir Ahmad made good on his debt by selling his 16-year-old daughter to marry the lender's son. "He gave me nine sheep," Ahmad said, describing his family's woes since...

Canadian Press OTTAWA -- The number of people arrested for smoking pot rose dramatically in several Canadian cities last year after the Conservatives took office and killed a bill to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. The spike in arrests for simple possession of cannabis appears...

The former head of China's State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng Xiaoyu, has been executed for corruption, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports. He was convicted of taking 6.5m yuan ($850,000; £425,400) in bribes and of dereliction of duty...

By Erin Smith/Chronicle Staff CAMBRIDGE - A diligent Harvard Square restaurant worker tied a tourniquet around his bloody penis and continued working for several hours after armed robbers stabbed him last week, police said. The 45-year-old East Boston man told police he was stabbed by two...

By Jeff Israely/Vatican City After months of intense speculation, Pope Benedict XVI has eased restrictions on the Catholic Church's traditional Latin Mass — a move that could raise controversy both within the Church, and in its interfaith relations, given the fact that the old rites include...

By Gwynne Dyer "Before you put a roof on a house, you need to build the foundations," South African President Thabo Mbeki reportedly told diplomats at the summit meeting of the African Union in Ghana last weekend. Others were just as quick to ridicule the summit's declared goal of creating a...

B.C.'s striking highway workers are set to appeal to the Labour Relations Board to expand their job action and shut down all government services in the province. About 400 highway workers, all members of the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union, have been on strike or locked out since...

Son of fallen Sask Mountie still kisses his picture one year after 'papa's' death By Tim Cook REGINA (CP) - Natasha Szpakowski's 21-month-old son Luca still has a picture of his "papa" that he kisses from time to time...

Abigail Taylor is what doctors call a medical miracle. The six-year-old is sitting up, talking and fully aware that she nearly died last Friday in a horrific pool accident at the Minneapolis Golf Club's Kiddie Pool. Abigail sat on the drain at the bottom of the pool and doctors say her bottom...

MIAMI -- A man was charged with elderly abuse after his mother was found covered in red ants and lying in her feces in a trailer with no electricity, authorities said Friday. Lillian V. Smith, 83, died at a hospital Thursday, two days after she was discovered in the abandoned trailer with no...

Woman left a trail of tragedy in her wake, used beauty to lure men, authorities claim Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer Sandra Camille Bridewell lives these days in a cramped cell in the Brunswick County Jail in North Carolina, a long way...

Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer (07-06) 16:31 PDT SAN RAFAEL -- Two hundred and forty-three goats were crushed to death this morning after the livestock truck they were riding in flipped while making a tight turn in San Rafael, authorities said. The goats, part...