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WACO, Texas – Jurors in a minister’s murder trial found themselves at odds Wednesday over the testimony of his former mistress, the state’s key witness. After more than five hours of deliberation, jurors sent the judge a note asking for the transcript of the testimony of Vanessa Bulls, who said …

INDIANAPOLIS – A lull in sponsorship and fundraising has caused Special Olympics affiliates in several states to cut administrative costs and athletic events. The poor economy has led affiliates in Indiana, California, Oregon, Tennessee, North Dakota and other states to cancel or scale back their athletic events for the mentally …

Curt Schilling spent 20 years on the mound facing some of Major League Baseball’s toughest hitters. During those two decades, his teams won three World Series, including one in 2004, when he famously wore a bloody sock to help bring the Boston Red Sox their first championship title in 86 …

A recent Gallup poll is simply incredible. Thirty-six percent of Americans have a positive image of socialism, including 53 percent of Democrats. Just 17 percent of Republicans think socialism is good. Now, socialism is the exact opposite of capitalism, which is our system in America. A socialist believes the government …

Spring training gives Major League Baseball players a chance to bond while soaking up sunshine. The team managers encourage the veterans and rookies to create some “chemistry that will really help them play well and support each other during the season,” says Laura Posada, whose husband Jorge, catcher for the …

Harry Reid’s apology to President Obama and the president’s ready acceptance may have missed the point entirely. In saying during the campaign last year that Mr. Obama was light-skinned and spoke in a “negro dialect” only when he wished, Senator Reid was in fact praising his fellow senator’s electability. But …

A Baptist pastor in Tennessee says he now regrets that his church distributed an anti-Catholic leaflet that a local Catholic priest decried as “hate material.” Pastor Jonathan Hatcher, who leads Conner Heights Baptist Church in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., has removed the inflammatory leaflet, “The Death Cookie,” from his congregation. He …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Capitol Hell One of the Democratic lawmakers at the center of the health care fight on Capitol Hill says his life has been a living hell since coming out against the bill unless it includes strict language on abortion funding. The Hill …

Do you ever get the feeling you’re in some sort of a parallel universe or on the set of a Hollywood movie? I have no logical explanation to explain the things going on in America today. I read this morning that the chairman of the president’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, …

Here’s a viewer e-mail from Heather T. in New York, N.Y.: “Now you’re a dolphin-hugging flake, Cavuto? I give up!! BP doesn’t stink. You do. And now I plan on making you an endangered species on my television. Goodbye!!” I’m sorry you feel that way, Heather. But my point was, …