LA GRANGE, Ohio - December 5, 2008 - On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8 PM. The team was aggressive and belligerent. The children were quite traumatized. At some point, the “bad cop” SWAT team was relieved by another team, a “good cop” team that tried to befriend the family. The Stowers family has run a very large, well-known food cooperative called Manna Storehouse on the western side of the greater Cleveland area for many years.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - December 1, 2008 - A gay version of the Bible, in which God says it is better to be gay than straight, is to be published by an American film producer.

CHICAGO, Illinois - December 10, 2008 - The governor of Illinois brazenly put up for sale his appointment of Barack Obama’s successor in the United States Senate, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

McALLEN, Texas - November 21, 2008 - Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.

HOUSTON - November 19, 2008 - The father of Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver was beaten by Houston, Texas, police officers as they arrested him for outstanding traffic warrants, Driver's family members claimed Wednesday.

WILMINGTON, North Carolina - November 19, 2008 - A North Carolina sheriff's official has apologized for plunging a funeral into chaos when undercover agents tried to arrest the dead man's son - and used a Taser on him in the process.

WASHINGTON - November 18, 2008 - Supreme Court of the United States Justice David Souter has agreed that a review of the federal lawsuit filed by attorney Phillip J. Berg against Barack Hussein Obama II, et al, which was subsequently dismissed for lack of standing, is warranted.