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Tuesday, January 4, 2005 Parents protest kids of gay pair A group at a Catholic school is upset the diocese allowed the couple to enroll their kindergartners. By FERMIN LEAL The Orange County Register COSTA MESA – A group of parents and parishioners at St. John the Baptist School has accused the Diocese of Orange of defying church doctrine after officials allowed the children of a gay couple to enroll at the Catholic school. The group of about three dozen is demanding the church adopt a policy that all parents must sign a letter in which they agree to abide...

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) looks over the barbecue at the buffet at Steve's Soul Food Restaurant in Detroit, Michigan, September 14, 2004. Kerry made an unscheduled stop at the restaurant as his motorcade made its way from Toledo, Ohio to Detroit. REUTERS/Brian Snyder US ELECTION

Three Dozen St. Louis Schoolchildren Become Ill After Cafeteria Lunch Mar 16, 2004 The Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) - More than three dozen children at a St. Louis grade school became ill Tuesday after eating lunch in the school cafeteria. Twenty-four of the 39 children from Lafayette Elementary School were taken by buses to two hospitals, where they complained of stomach aches, headaches and vomiting. The symptoms appear consistent with food poisoning, said St. Louis Children's Hospital spokeswoman Jackie Ferman. Both hospitals said late Tuesday they had treated and released the children. The students became ill after a lunch...

Baghdad Museum 'Outrage' Dwarfed by Diplo Looting Spree Now that many of the irreplaceable treasures supposedly looted from Baghdad's National Museum are turning up in Jordan, it seems that all handwringing over the episode by media types desperate to paint the Iraq war as a failure was vastly overdone. But while Iraq's art looters weren't all they were cracked up to be, there's still plenty of cause for concern on the looting front - especially when it comes to the media's favorite deliberative body, the United Nations. "It was chaos, wild, something out of a war scene," said one executive...