State Ballot Initiatives Take on Social Issues

Voters in South Dakota turned down a ban on abortion that was intended to force the U.S. Supreme Court to reopen a landmark 1973 ruling that established a woman’s right to choose, Missourians narrowly passed a constitutional amendment protecting embryonic stem...

Report Alleges Cover-Up of Pedophile by Baptist Church

A TV station in Jacksonville, Fla., reports that leaders in a prominent Baptist church in the city knew for years their former pastor was a pedophile, but covered it up for fear public knowledge would harm the church’s ministry, shipping the minister to Germany...