Associated Press – August 12, 2008 CHICAGO – The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago said Tuesday it had agreed to pay more than $12.6 million to settle lawsuits by 16 people who accused priests of sexual abuse. “My hope is that these settlements will help the survivors and their families begin to heal and move forward,”…

By Adelle M. Banks c. 2008 Religion News Service DAMASCUS, Md. — On Sunday mornings at Damascus Road Community Church, when the children are dismissed from the sanctuary for Sunday school, another set of children and adults head to “The Haven.” As many as four dozen people gather in the church gym to play games…

Associated Press – August 13, 2008 NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania – An American woman was sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison on Wednesday for killing her bigamist husband as he was set to travel to Africa to see his second Muslim wife. Myra Morton, 48, tearfully apologized to the mother of victim Jereleigh Morton during…

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services The owners of a Chicago-based real estate investment firm were arrested Monday on federal fraud charges, and U.S. regulators accused them of conducting a quarter-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme going back as far as 2005. Steven Byers, 46, chief executive of WexTrust Capital LLC and an Oak Brook resident, and Joseph Shereshevsky, 51, a…

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