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Wife and in-law clashSunday, August 1, 2010 @ 12:10AMDear Torn: I would hope that, if your mother has been abusive to your wife, you'd have said so explicitly. Since you don't say either way, I leave open the possibility. While it's good for children to witness -- and thereby, ideally, learn to handle -- a wide range of behavior from others, it's hard to argue for any educational value in letting them witness their grandmother abuse their mother ...

The Human Genome Project: 10 Years Later, Progress but Still a PuzzleSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 1:50PMTen years ago this summer, President Bill Clinton announced that the first draft of the Human Genome Project was complete. Standing next to the president, the lead scientist on the project at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, said the draft would reveal the keys to treating common diseases like Alzheimer’s in just 10 to 15 years. That hope turned out to be wildly ...

Escaping an abusive marriageSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 4:17AMOne readers asks how to get himself out of an abusive marriage and another readers asks if it is acceptable to post certain comments on Facebook.

BISHOP BILL WOODSON: A successful Christian marriageSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 4:05AMBasking in the glow of my daughter Grace's wedding, I find myself praying that her marriage to her spouse, Kevin, will defeat the odds and will be an example of what a Christian marriage should look like. In this post-modern culture, the Biblical institution of marriage is under attack.

Cleveland judge warned Tonya Hunter-Lyons to get out of bad marriage months before slayingSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 3:07AMFour months before Hunter-Lyons' husband was accused of stabbing her 17 times in her garage, a judge advised her to leave him. "If you take this guy back, then it's on you, OK," Connally told Hunter-Lyons in court April 27 while sentencing Maurice Lyons for domestic violence, according to a court transcript of the hearing.

• Angel Shepherd find peace through faithSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 12:36AMBy Shavonne Potts spotts@salisburypost.com or much of her life, Angel Shepherd couldnât find anyone in whom to put her faith. As a child, Shepherd says, she was molested. As a teenager, she was brutally raped. And as a young woman, she was physica ...

AP: Pitino gave aide $3,000 for pregnant womanFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 11:05PMLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Rick Pitino asked a longtime aide to give $3,000 to a woman now accused of trying to extort millions from the Louisville men's basketball coach after she claimed Pitino got her pregnant in a one-night fling at a restaurant, the aide testified.

Fort Mill mechanics hit airwaves about car repairFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 10:41PMThree mechanics at a Fort Mill auto shop have started their own radio showed. It's called " Crank and Case," like the crankcase of an engine.

The Rev. John J. Lobell dies at age 86Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 4:27PMCo-owner of a shoe polish manufacturing firm later entered the Episcopal priesthood and became a pastoral counselor The Rev. John J. Lobell, a retired Episcopal priest who had served at several area churches before becoming a pastoral counselor, died Monday of stomach and liver cancer at his Columbia home.