The Iqraa bookstore on Mutanabi street has more than tripled in size in the last two years. Business is up 50 percent since 2003. But, say the store’s two owners, the future is uncertain as long as they can’t count on safe streets, stable...

For the first time in 15 years, the number of hungry people in the world has declined. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 925 million people are undernourished – a significant improvement from the 1.023 billion hungry...

A federal judge in Riverside on Thursday declared the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional, saying the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy violates the 1st Amendment and due process rights of...

Torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala have killed at least 37 people, and could claim as many as 100 lives, the country’s emergency services agency said Sunday. In addition, it reported 30 people were injured and 23 were missing after...

In July, police responded to a call from the Madisonville, Ohio home of Darrel and Jorene White. The smell emanating from it was so profoundly wicked they had to wear masks and haz-mat suits to enter. That’s when they found 46-year-old Jorene...

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States, after peaking at 12 million in 2007, fell to about 11.1 million in 2009, the first clear decline in two decades, according to a report published Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Arizona authorities are hunting for three convicted murderers who may well be out of state or on their way to Mexico, a corrections official said Saturday. The Arizona Department of Corrections and the Flagstaff police said on Saturday that the three...

There has been a great deal of ink spilled over the concept that drugs can harm people’s lives. Of course, most of the time, when some one mentions drugs, they are in reference to illegal substances, which must be bought clandestinely and almost...

It is truly a sad fact that some children live in a world in which any little thing they do can lead to verbal and or physical abuse. And in truth, as many of these children end up learning later on in life, the abuse frequently does not even come down...

Layaways are emerging once more, and we are seeing these done at Kmart. One thing that’s good about a layaway is that it charges much less than credit cards. If I were to buy a new appliance for my house, I’d probably plan to do this ahead of...