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Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, could face a primary challenge. According to the Birmingham News, Scott Beason, a conservative firebrand in the state Senate, is seriously considering a run. Bachus has bucked his party on a variety of issues, working early on with Democrats on the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which bailed out Wall Street, and admitting publicly that he thought Wall Street executives should be limited in their executive compensation. Beason is best known for his controversial bill targeting illegal immigration in the state, and could prove a tough challenger for Bachus...

LINCOLN, Ill. — The former son-in-law of Beason resident Raymond "Rick" Gee was arrested Thursday afternoon in the deaths of Gee and four other members of his family. Christopher J. Harris, 30, of McLean County, was arrested and is being held at the Logan County jail. Gee, 46, his wife, Ruth Gee, 39, and their children, Justina Constant, 16, Dillen Constant, 14, and Austin Gee, 11, were found dead in their home on Sept. 21. Harris was formerly married to Nicole Gee, Rick's daughter, who did not live at the home. Nicole Gee was granted a divorce in March of...

BEASON, Ill. - A central Illinois sheriff says autopsies on five members of a family found slain in their home revealed that none of the victims had been shot. At a news conference this morning, Logan County Sheriff Steven Nichols wouldn't discuss the cause of death further. On Tuesday, Nichols had said authorities discovered the bodies at the family's ranch-style house after responding to a 911 call about possible shots fired.

VANITY: Just breaking on local news -- family of 5 or 6 murdered in Beason, IL near where I live.

I am a convert to the Catholic Faith from Calvinism. I loved Calvinism and owned a library full of Calvin, Luther, Warfield, Hodge, Murray, Owen, Machen, etc. as well as helped plant a local Orthodox Presbyterian Church. I knew Reformation Theology and how much hatred it generates for the Catholic Church. As a Calvinist, I could boast with the best of them. I even persecuted the Catholic Church and went after every one of them I found, beating them back with Scripture, upon Scripture, upon quotes of Luther, Calvin, etc. I found great pleasure in debating Catholics. My one flaw...