State: Teen wife told she'd lose salvation
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs warned a teenage girl forced into a "spiritual marriage" to submit to sex with her husband or face "losing your salvation," Utah authorities claimed in an affidavit.
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James and Alison Podworski of West Springfield, married for almost five years, hadn't thought much about life insurance. But all that changed two years ago when they had their first child, McKenna.
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NEWARK, N.J. - A father's attempt to teach his daughter a lesson about drinking backfired when the teen led police to a stash of drugs and weapons inside their home.  Kevin Winston, 46, called police at 2:45 a.m. Friday after his 16-year-old daughter came home drunk and unruly.
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Evangelical Christian leaders are warning one another that their teenagers are abandoning the faith in droves.
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By John Railey, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Mar. 4--The outrageous words must have hurt a lot of Southern Baptists.  "I believe kids are not safe in Southern Baptist churches," Christa Brown  told The Associated Press the other day.
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A domestic violence case involving a television evangelist has left some questioning her credibility.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty of being an accomplice to rape by using his religious authority to push a 14-year-old girl into marriage. Elissa Wall, who testified about being a child wife, said after the verdict: "This has not been about religion or a vendetta. It was simply about child abuse."
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - A young woman broke down in tears in a Utah courtroom on Friday as she recounted feeling trapped and overwhelmed about a marriage arranged by a polygamous sect when she was 14.
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The battle between a US woman's husband and parents over whether to keep her alive takes a new twist.
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A woman accused of shooting her preacher husband to death after they argued over money may have been taken in by a remarkably common scam that strained their finances and their marriage.
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Â· Teenager took his own life at secure training centre Â· Restraints could breach human rights legislation.
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By John F. Morrison, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 16--At age 26, Lena Thomas was deathly ill. The prognosis was not good, but she sent up a fervent prayer. She told God that if she were spared, she would devote the rest of her life to serving him.
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Narin Leininger knows about the risks of talking on a cell phone or sending text messages while driving. The 16-year-old high school junior says he'd only use his phone behind the wheel in an emergency &#151; a flat tire, traffic jam or crash.
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GANDER, N.L. (CP) - The wife of a man charged with drowning their twin daughters has told a jury he was frantic after he returned home to tell her one of the children had fallen into a Newfoundland lake.
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A teenager was arrested after a leader of the Church of Satan turned over to the FBI an e-mail the high school student had written to the sect in which he threatened to kill his grandparents, authorities said.
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Â· Mother and two teenagers bludgeoned to death Â· Sought man was woman's boyfriend, neighbours say
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A teenager who survived what is thought to be a suicide pact in which her friend died has begun talking about what happened.