OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) As Neil Beagley lay dying on his grandmother’s bed, his parents did not take him to a hospital or call 9-1-1 or make any lifesaving efforts, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday (Jan. 19). “They did nothing because that was their belief,” prosecutor Greg Horner said in his opening statement at the…

Associated Press – January 20, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO – A gay man testified Wednesday in a federal same-sex marriage trial that the “reversal therapy” he underwent as a teenager to change his sexual orientation drove him to the brink of suicide. Lawyers for two same-sex couples suing to overturn California’s gay marriage ban called 26-year-old…

Associated Press – January 20, 2010 NEW YORK – Two prominent Muslim scholars once accused of ties to terrorism are cleared to travel to the United States now that the State Department has concluded they pose no danger to the country, federal spokesmen said Wednesday. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed orders enabling…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In a place desperately in need of miracles, here’s one: Scores of children about to enter the dining room of a church were spared when dinner was late. Other kids were saved when Seker Dorval, 17, one of the oldest boys in the Reformation Hope orphanage, thought it his responsibility to chase…

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