Sectarian Grinches And Persnickety Pundits Have Turned The Season Of Peace Into A Festival Of Carping

Wiccan Clergyman Should Have the Right To Challenge Government-Imposed Religious Discrimination, Says Watchdog Group

BALTIMORE - Baltimore's mayor was convicted Tuesday on a single charge she took gift cards intended for the city's poor. Although Sheila Dixon was acquitted of a felony theft charge, her conviction could force her from office.

A horse-loving money manager embezzled more than $40 million from a construction union and used it to bankroll her daughter's equestrian career, prosecutors said Tuesday

The Sun Dance is a ceremony practiced differently by several North American Indian Nations, but many of the ceremonies have features in common, including dancing, singing and drumming, the experience of visions, fasting, and, in some cases, self-torture.

A Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribes united in their struggle for survival on the northern plains, Sitting Bull remained defiant toward American military power and contemptuous of American promises to the end.

After Sitting Bull's death, Big Foot feared for the safety of his band, which consisted in large part of widows of the Plains wars and their children. Big Foot himself had been placed on the list of "fomenters of disturbances," and his arrest had been ...

Youths exploring a rugged part of Jefferson Township on Sunday stumbled on what appears to be a Native American burial ground.

SEATTLE - A sheriff's spokesman in Washington state says Seattle police have fatally shot the man suspected of gunning down four police officers.

SEATTLE -- The man suspected of gunning down four police officers in a suburban coffee shop was shot and killed by Seattle police early Tuesday, a sheriff's spokesman said