Stephen Volkmer-Jones of Des Moines has something most men don't: A maiden name.

Growing up, he was Stephen Volkmer. Then he met and fell in love with Suzanne Jones. When the two decided to combine lives in 1976, it made sense to combine names, too.

And here's the good news for Iowans. This is one of only six states where men can change their names at marriage without having to pa...

In 1972, the year I graduated from high school, more than 60 of Billboard's top 100 songs for the year were about love. Not one of them referred to women as bitches or hos, and there was no mention of busting a cap in anyone.

I grew up in Topeka, Kan., and all my friends' fathers had guns. We all knew where they were. Usually they were not locked up, and they were loaded. Yet, I never h...

Linda J. Ill's Jan. 7 letter sharply attacks the objectivity and quality of my recent study on premarital sex, based on the faulty premise that my organization, the Guttmacher Institute, is the "research arm of Planned Parenthood" ("Sex Study is Planned Parenthood Propaganda").

In truth, we are an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit organization founded on the belief that sound public...

Professor Andrew Oswald Newresearch by the University of Warwick reveals that aNobel Prize brings more than just cash and kudos - it can also add nearly twoyears to your life.

The research by Professor AndrewOswald, an economist at the Universityof Warwick, and Matthew Rablen, (aformer Warwickpostgraduate researcher now a government economist), is published this month ina study entitled "...

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Japan considers importing foreign workers _ then thinks again

OIZUMI, Japan (AP) - At the Brazil Plaza shopping center, Carlos Watanabe thinks back on 12 lonely years as a factory worker in Japan _ and can't find a single thing to praise except the cold ...

If I were a snob, a liar, a drunk, a philanderer, an anti-Semite, a violent bully, a poseur and a menace to the vulnerable, I would want Linda Hopkins to write my biography.

Masud Khan, age 46, at his house in Knightsbridge, London.

Masud Khan, an Anglo-Pakistani psychoanalyst notable in the 1960s and '70s, was all of those things. Hopkins, a psychologist and psychoanalyst, has wri...

The public is invited to the following events at Lawrence University. Admission is free unless otherwise noted. For questions, call the Public Affairs Office at 920-832-6585, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. All events are subject to change.

5 p.m., Alumni Saxophone Quartet featuring Jared Thomas; Memorial Chapel.

7 p.m., The Tournees French Film Festival: "Moolaade;" Wriston Auditorium...

Of local school districts surveyed, Torrance Unified is the only one that runs the names of all prospective parent volunteers through the Megan's Law Web site. Ironically, however, it was Torrance Unified that for four months had a registered sex offender helping out at Anza Elementary School.

Mark Kenneth Vasquez, working in his child's classroom since September under a court-ordered c...

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A volunteer youth basketball coach was arrested for allegedly sending sexually explicit messages over the Internet to an Anaheim police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl, authorities said.

Gregory Albert Carroll, 45, was arrested Friday at his Ontario home on suspi...

Back to Home > Sunday, Jan 21, 2007 News Posted on Sun, Jan. 21, 2007 email this print this reprint or license this

A volunteer youth basketball coach was arrested for allegedly sending sexually explicit messages over the Internet to an Anaheim police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl, authorities said.

Gregory Albert Carroll, 45, was arrested Friday at his Ontario home on suspic...