An entire unit of laughing firefighters rescued an NYPD cop who got trapped in a tree yesterday - after the officer climbed up to save a scared cat and couldn't get back down, officials said. NYPD veteran Dane Natto and his partner responded to frant ...

MULDROW -- It was standing room only in the spacious Muldrow Public Schools cafeteria as hundreds of area residents crowded into a School Board meeting Monday to discuss the Ten Commandments plaques posted in each classroom for two decades. The plaqu ...

It all started with a permission slip. The one Mitzi Yates found among the papers in her fifth-grader's backpack. If she signed it, it would allow him to bring home a copy of the Gideon New Testament from McConnell Elementary. Wary of religious coerc ...

The company behind a new Atlantic City billboard is promoting a dating website for "sugar daddies," rich and usually older men who lavish gifts on young women in return for their favors. "Hey Students. Need a summer job? Date a Sugar Daddy," states a ...

America is awash in doublespeak. Words such as "marriage," "conservatism," "bigotry," "tolerance" and "brave" no longer have universal meaning, and this is no accident. When confusion replaces clarity, the devil breaks out the champagne. It's so much ...

[caption id="attachment_7672" align="alignright" width="300"] (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)[/caption]Nashville - They sang George Jones' life Thursday morning. They sang his life to mark his death, at a memorial celebration on the Grand Ole Opry Hou ...

Mary Maisonet is a typical iTunes consumer. She uses it often to download songs, but not as much as she used to. There are more options now, says Maisonet, of Hoboken, N.J., such as free online radio services Pandora and iHeartRadio, music-listening ...

Increasingly more homebuilders in the Washington area are ditching the term "master bedroom" for the more politically correct "owner's bedroom." "I imagine it's not only a more accurate description but also a more politically correct term of art," sa ...

SACRAMENTO -- Some California lawmakers seeking to pressure the Boy Scouts of America to abandon its ban on openly gay members are taking a novel approach: They are threatening to strip the organization of its state tax exemption. The proposal, which ...

Supporters and critics of a Richland florist's decision to not provide flowers for a same-sex wedding are jumping into her legal fray with the Washington Attorney General's Office. A conservative family values organization, the Family Policy Institut ...