Recent Votes

• Small firms scrapping, scaling back health plans

  Faced with high health insurance costs, a North Carolina brokerage passed the buck on to its employees, a Texas public relations firm switched from group insurance to stipends, and a Missouri travel agency let its workers walk away instead paying for insurance.

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• Formerly conjoined twins leave intensive care

  Conjoined Bangladeshi twins who were separated in a marathon surgery last week left intensive care on Monday and were adjusting well, hospital officials said.

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• An excited new cub scout becomes another victim of zero-tolerance policy, faces 45 days at reform school.

  Source: The New York Times

  NEWARK, Del. — Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy. But there was Zachary Christie last week at a school disciplinary committee hearing with his karate instructor and his mother's fiancé by his side to vouch for him.

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• Synagogue-dweller is Afghan Jewry's last gasp

  Zebulon Simentov lives, eats and prays alone — the last known Jew in a country dominated by conservative Muslim culture.

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• Ky. church ordains sex offender as minister

  A tiny Louisville church's newest minister is a gifted music leader and popular among its three dozen members.

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