The following are recent obituary notices from Austin and Barnes and Hampton funeral homes in Boone and Reins-Sturdivant in Newland. Read more ...

With abortion pills by mail and a new amendment decriminalizing women who end their own pregnancies, can evangelicals ...

Fireworks lit up the skies of Jackson County on Friday night in a variety of colors and patterns. In particular, Medora ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

Kositi was killed in 2007 after he refused to accept a bribe, an act the Catholic Church views as being rooted in his ...

The U S Supreme Court s decision to strike down nationwide injunctions impacting President Donald Trump s order limiting the ...

In court filings Monday, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...

Since 1954, the IRS has banned nonprofits — including congregations — from participating in political campaigns. The agency ...

Churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates to their congregations without risking losing their ...

The agency's agreement in a court filing formally reverses a decades-old provision of the tax code, but the motion would need ...

New interpretation of tax law is a win for conservative Christians who have long opposed the Johnson Amendment.

The IRS said Monday that religious places of worship could endorse political candidates, undoing a decades-old ban on ...