Congregations are feeling the fallout from a decision by the nation's largest Lutheran denomination to allow noncelibate gay clergy and church leaders, as well as recognition of same-sex couples.

Tomas De La Cruz-Prado, 19, says he was drinking and driving the night an Omaha bicyclist was struck and killed.

Caskey receives nomination Congressman Lee Terry has selected several students from the area to receive nominations to various military academies. David Caskey of Papillion received nominations to the United States Military, Naval, Air Force, and Merchant Marine academies.

As indicated by the in flux of text message-based donations to Haiti earthquake relief foundations, mobile giving has taken off, but the mobile payments space as whole has a long way to go.

New York police say socialite Gigi Jordan killed her son and tried to kill herself at Peninsula Hotel in Manhattan. New York City - New York City Police Department - New York - United States - Manhattan

BELLEVUE, Wash. - (Business Wire) Members of the Investment Community, Esterline Technologies (NYSE: ESL) plans to announce financial results for its 1

MADISON The American Red Cross will hold the Christopher Sauer Memorial Blood Drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the L.B. Clarke Middle School gymnasium, 4608 Bellevue Place, Two Rivers.

Bellevue restarateur Salvatore Lembo, owner of Guido Pizzeria and Firenze Ristorante Italiano, is organizing the first Miss Italia Washington contest.

Robin Pflugrad's first recruiting class at Montana figures to be put to the test early.

BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AtHisBest.com(TM) is the first online store dedicated to offering an outstanding selection of men's grooming, health, home, fitness, sex and personal care essentials at great prices.

Gabriel Jang, 37, of Newcastle, was sentenced Friday, Feb. 5 in U.S. District Court in Seattle to eight and half years in prison, five years of supervised release and hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution for Conspiracy to Commit Bank and Wire Fraud, Access Device Fraud, Structuring Currency Transactions and Aggravated Identity Theft.

Hours extended, but snow puts some work on ice

SUN VALLEY Morgan Arritola had already tried on her Olympicuniform.

Jim and Hannah Holt, the co-coaches of the Bellevue High School gymnastics team, have fashioned careers as freelance international gymnastics coaches. They have coached in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Egypt, Bolivia and Chile, to name a few countries.

Nebraska and Iowa are feeling the fallout from a decision by the nations largest Lutheran denomination to allow non-celibate gay clergy and church leaders, as well as recognition of same-sex couples.

Roberto Carceln, who now lives in Seattle, met his wife through an online-dating service and learned cross-country skiing only about five years ago. Yet he'll be in Vancouver, B.C., later this month as Peru's first and only Winter Olympian.

A wealthy pharmaceutical exec -- distraught about an imaginary upcoming divorce and custody battle -- murdered her 8-year-old son and tried to kill herself yesterday in a deluxe suite at the Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue, officials said. Investigators found the body of Gigi Jordan's son, Jude Michael Mirra...

Ericsson has boosted its SMS aggregation reach in the USA after it acquired the operator and aggregation contract assets belonging to SinglePoint.

When Belinda Wright interned at a company in Kansas City, Mo., a few years ago, some people mistook her for the reigning Miss Kansas.

Attending Bellevue physician and prolific author Danielle Ofri shares tales of her patients' paths through life.