A federal judge has ruled that prison inmates have no right to sweat lodges and raw meat to practice the Wiccan religion.
U.S. District Judge Philip Pro rejected the civil rights suit of Scott Fletcher, who claimed the federal law on religious rights of prisoners required the prison to provide such things.
The judge said the prison regulations “do not pose a substantial burden on Fletcher’s
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday approved new rules that will make it harder to discharge gays from the military, calling the changes a matter of “common sense and common decency.”
Gates announced new guidelines for how the Pentagon carries out the 1993 law banning gays from serving openly in the military rules that essentially put higher-ranking officers in charge of discharge proc
Among the peeves I keep as pets, chief is my loathing of the Easter Bunny. There are many reasons to hate the Bunny. I will get into why in particular the Bunny, but first to some other pressing business.
Why is it that religious holidays require mascots to make them palatable to secularists who otherwise wouldnt give a fig about the celebration? While some mascots are cool in their own rig
A self-proclaimed Wicca practitioner and murder suspect faced a judge Wednesday as police try to learn more about the woman’s practices.
Police accuse 30 year-old Angela Sanford of stabbing her lover, Joel Leyba, to death Monday evening near the trails at the end of Copper Avenue just east of Tramway Boulevard.
Sanford had little to say in court Wednesday. She faces an open count of murder, bu
The Wiccan community is outraged that a murder on a hiking trail is now being associated with their religion and now question if the murder suspect was really performing a ritual before she stabbed a man to death.
Police said there was no evidence Angela Sanford, 30, was threatened or raped and that’s where her story began to unravel. A local Wiccan said police should investigate Sanford even f
In the beginning, there was the stone.
The blue-gray vein of granite that courses through northeastern Georgia spawned jobs in the quarries and finishing sheds of Elberton, where generations of stonecutters have turned slabs of rock the size of refrigerators into statues, tombstones and tile.
And one day, it brought a visitor who gifted the town with a landmark that leaves visitors scratchin
Albuquerque police now believe a self-described witch with a ritual dagger is behind the murder of a man in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains.
Angela Sanford, 30, is charged with an open count of murder in the stabbing death of Joel Leyva. Police say the two had previously met at an Albuquerque-area casino about a week ago and exchanged phone numbers.
At around 4 p.m. Monday, police say
Albuquerque police say that a the city’s latest homicide may have taken place during a Wiccan spring celebration.
Police say that 30-year-old Angela Sanford, who claims to be a practicing witch, stabbed and killed Joel Leyva Monday afternoon in the open space area near the Tramway bike trail at Tramway and Copper.
The Staffordshire Hoard is expected to be saved from sale on the open market thanks to a ’significant’ Government grant.
A group of 12 trustees of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) was today due to discuss the fate of the biggest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever unearthed in Britain.
They were expected to look at a few sample items of the gold, kept in London for fund-raising purpo
A Mississippi school district violated a lesbian student’s rights by banning her from bringing her girlfriend to the prom, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, but he stopped short of forcing the district to hold the event.
U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson denied an American Civil Liberties Union request for a preliminary injunction that would have forced the Itawamba County school district to sp
