Incest

An Aberdeen man charged with incest and rape pleaded not guilty to a host of charges Tuesday. Richard P. Mette, 41, requested a court trial. No date was set. Mette had pleaded not guilty to the counts before, but the charges were slightly altered so...

 An Aberdeen man charged with incest and rape pleaded not guilty to a host of charges Tuesday.  Richard P. Mette, 41, requested a jury trial. No date was set.  Mette had pleaded not guilty to the counts before, but the charges were slightly altered so...

It's likely that more charges will be filed against an Aberdeen man who already faces rape and incest charges, Brown County's top prosecutor said in court on Tuesday.  Three more children have made accusations against Richard P. Mette, 41, since the...

KOBLENZ, Germany (AP) — A 48-year-old German admitted fathering at least seven children with his stepdaughter Tuesday as his trial opened on charges he abused her, his natural daughter, and his stepson for more than 20 years and forced the two girls...

WASHINGTON - Here's how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Saturday: HOUSE Abortion tax policies Voting 251 for and 175 against, the House on Wednesday sent the Senate a bill (HR3) that would use the U.S. tax code as a...

Each week, The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: CONSANGUINITY If you were mildly alarmed to...

Every debate word between Republican Christine O'Donnell and Democrat Chris Coons -- and there were a lot of them....

To me, the most interesting part of the highly contentious meeting of the state Senate Executive Appointments Committee Thursday morning in Springfield was not the near fistfight between lawmakers, but the debate on “rough and tumble”...

Conservative Rick Santorum says he had "nothing to do with" his campaign slogan after being told it comes from a poem by Langston Hughes, an African-American poet who spoke out for social justice causes and may well have been gay....

ABC News asked on its Facebook page "Should incest be permitted between consenting adults?" Slate, the news website, offered an answer of no, calling incest a cancer in an opinion piece under the headline "Incest Is Cancer, The David Epstein incest case:...

The long-awaited debate on Monday in New York governor's race showed Democrat Andrew Cuomo, son of the former governor and Democratic icon, as steeped in how New York government works and how he believes it should be fixed. Meanwhile, his top rival,...