Ryan Trebon and Georgia Gould earned the overall USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Calendar titles following the final calendar event on Dec. 14. Jeremy Powers, Tim Johnson, Jamey Driscoll and Todd Wells rounded out the top-five on the men's side in

President-elect Barack Obama this week said one of the main goals of his administration will be repairing US relations with the Islamic world. He said he hopes to deliver a major speech from a Muslim capital. Meanwhile, humanitarian and religious

Nearly three million Muslims have completed the hajj, the annual religious pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which this year was peaceful and accident-free. The Islamic faithful around the world marked the conclusion of the mass pilgrimage with the celebratory

There's been a major shake-up in the world of Protestant Evangelicals. Richard Cizik resigned as the principal lobbyist and spokesman for the National Association of Evangelicals. Cizik has long been a leader of the movement among some evangelicals, especially younger

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discusses Richard Cizik's resignation from the National Association of Evangelicals amid controversy about his recent statements on civil unions and says the incident shows a growing division among evangelicals over politics and

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BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: The Christian relief organization World Vision commissioned a survey recently which found that, because of the recession, 71 percent of Americans say they will spend less money on holiday presents this year, and nearly half (49 percent)

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This past week the UN said nearly a billion people worldwide are hungry, but there are many efforts underway to combat that. We have a Fred de Sam Lazaro story today about one popular feeding program that

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: In Washington, speculation is running high about where Obama and his family will attend church after they move into the White House. Earlier this year, Obama cut ties with his longtime Chicago congregation, Trinity United Church of

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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly is asking a range of religious leaders what they most hope for in the first 100 days of the Obama administration. Watch two Washington, DC ministers, Rev. Stephen Gentle, senior pastor of National City Christian Church,

A lighthearted Chase Utley is confident he'll recover quickly from hip surgery.

At 46, the 16-game winner for the world champions got a big two-year contract.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. - A Pennsylvania state prison inmate is facing one-quarter to one-half century more behind bars in the injury of a correctional officer.

PHILADELPHIA - Donovan McNabb is getting used to watching the end of games on the sideline.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's public school pension fund lost $1.8 billion for the 2007-08 fiscal year. That didn't stop 21 investment staff members from receiving bonus payments totaling more than $854,000.

HOOKSTOWN, Pa. - State police say a 9-year-old boy was present when his father was fatally shot by another member of their deer hunting party in southwestern Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA - Officials say they hope a baby Jesus figure stolen from a cr+ che on Independence Mall in Philadelphia will be returned.

CANONSBURG, Pa. - Police and a coroner continue to investigate a crash in which a 36-year-old woman was killed when her car was hit by a runaway trailer that disconnected from a passing pickup truck.