David Koresh

If you are reading this, you have survived the end of the world. Again.  For many years, people have been unsuccessfully predicting the end of the world and people have been believing them.  One of the more recent examples of dooms day prophesy is...

Don’t ram the iceberg a second time To the editor: I am writing today in response to Rodney Guessford’s letter from July 26. In his letter, Guessford asks why Republicans would vote for Mitt Romney — other than to vote against...

The recent crash of a $176 million Navy drone in a Chesapeake Bay marsh highlights a number of brewing issues over the domestic use of this new technology. Over the past decade, since the United States' invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and framed by the...

"... abridging  the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances." The remaining clause of the amendment is necessary due again to the lessons learned in...

April 19 is not just another day on the calendar. Lots of things good, and not so good, happened on this day in history. For instance, today is the day 'the shot heard around the world' took place, the first fighting in the American Revolution back in...

In Texas, the recent sentence to life in prison plus 20 years of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), has once again focused attention on this Mormon sect and its practice of plural...

1911: The Ballet Russes premiered ''Le Spectre de la Rose'' in Monte Carlo, with Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina. 1951: General Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his Far East command by President Harry S. Truman, bid farewell in an address to Congress...

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if man had never invented religion nor needed a god to believe in. Some think that societies would simply fall apart with no religion to guide them. As it looks from my point of view, religion divides much...

by Mark Silva The people at Homeland Security caught some flak one year ago when the agency issued a warning to law enforcement agencies around the nation. The agency said it had "no specific information'' that any rightwing terrorists were......

COLORADO CITY, Ariz. — There is nothing physically imposing about Warren Jeffs. He's tall and reedy with a quavering voice and, acquaintances say, an especially limp handshake. Family members describe the church leader as secretive, strict and...

Plainfield, N.H. — SHE sits on the lookout in a lawn chair on their front porch, her forehead glossy with sweat, Bible next to her left foot, wind chimes clinking at her back. Her husband of 24 years is by her side, German shepherd at his knee,...

Rocker Courtney Love -- who once declared that she wasn't a woman but a force of nature and got little argument -- has rented a sprawling Mediterranean in the Hollywood Hills for about $20,000 a month. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: 'Entourage'...