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"A Tenant's Twitter Tangle"

A Chicago management company has sued a tenant for libel over aTwitter post complaining about a moldy apartment, according to court records and online reports.

On May 12, Exhibit A in the lawsuit shows, defendant Amanda Bonnen broadcast a message to a friend: "You should just come anyway. Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay."

Horizon Group Manag...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district court’s ruling, paving the way for a Santeria priest in Euless to resume goat sacrifices as part of religious ceremonies.

City officials had attempted to ban the sacrifices, an action that Jose Merced, a Santeria priest and Puerto Rico native, challenged in federal court as a restriction on his constitutional right to free exercise of religion.

U.S. District Judge John McBryde side...

The jury forewoman in the trial of an Oregon couple acquitted of manslaughter in their daughter's pneumonia death says she felt the pairwere ''loving people'' who didn't mean to harm the 15-month-old girl.

The jury knew Carl Brent Worthington and his pregnant wife, Raylene, ''had no intentions of ever harming their child,'' Ashlee Santos told reporters on Thursday outside the Clackamas County Courthouse. ''If anything, the evidence showed the opposite.''

One of the most beloved stories that Jesus told has been called the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Many have identified with his need for mercy after his excursion into arrogance and stupidity. 

By focusing on the prodigal son, however, we miss the central lesson of the parable. The central character in this story is not theson, but the father. Perhaps if we called it the Parable of the Incredible Father we’d find it easier to focus on the por...

"In order to get at the heart of taboo subjects - drugs, homelessness, HIV risk and crime - Philippe Bourgois does more than simply study them from afar."

For his 1995 book on street-level crack dealers in East Harlem, “In Search of Respect,” he moved into a house in the thick of that community’s drug trade, befriending sellers and managers to understand what he calls the “extraordinarily appealing and dynamic economy that’san eco...

In 2011 Africa is set to get a new country. But South Sudan could well start life as a prefailed state

MAJOR JOHNSON GUCH of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) sits outside a grass hut at the edge of Nasir, a missionary post in Nuerland that in time became a dismal town (see map). Dressed in a tracksuit, he gives the air of a local warlord. A Nuer himself, Mr Guch is commander of a joint integrated unit (JIU) of southern and northern Sudanese soldiers mand...

Sarah Palin says David Letterman owes an apology to young women across the country for his joke about her daughter. The Alaska governor appeared on NBC's "Today" show Friday, continuing a feud with the CBS "Late Show" funny man over his joke earlier this week that Palin's daughter got "knocked up" by New York Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez during their recent trip to New York.

Palin alsosaid she doesn't believe she should be automatically considered the front-runner ...