Critics say the new system merely serves to block anyone from monitoring whether the church is ending its practice of posthumous baptisms.

One person was killed, six were wounded and a seventh suffered unspecified injuries. All of the wounded are expected to survive.

Questions about cost and access to birth control have been swirling for weeks now, intensifying after a Georgetown University law school student testified before congressional Democrats in support of a federal policy to pay for contraception.

After reports Thursday of the storm fizzling out, a surge of activity prompted space weather forecasters to issue alerts about changes in the magnetic field.

  Shelley Bacon checks a vacuum pump in a maple grove Wednesday afternoon in Sidney. She said that plastic tubes are hooked up to about 1,800 trees stretching a mile up from the road. The sap will later be boiled into syrup at her family’s business, Bacon Farm Maple Products, at the corner of Pond […]