John Jay

WASHINGTON - The vast majority of Roman Catholic bishops have complied with orders to implement safeguards designed to protect children from sexual abuse, according to an audit released yesterday by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops....

BOSTON - Roman Catholics confronted the problem of clergy sex abuse from pulpits, at protests and in parishes yesterday, two days after the release of reports outlining the scandal's scope and the church's failure to protect children. While some...

NEW YORK - A draft of the national survey of sex abuse claims against Roman Catholic priests has been viewed by CNN, which reported yesterday that 4,450 clergymen have been accused of molesting minors since 1950. The draft survey said 11,000 abuse claims...

Saturday, April 10 ARCADIA INVITATIONAL At Arcadia High The Long Beach Poly girls' track and field team, led by senior sprinter Shalonda Solomon, won four events in the Arcadia Invitational at Arcadia High on Saturday night in a meet in which...

As Baltimore County investigators take a fresh look at the unexplained death in November of an infant boy whose mother has since been charged in her other son's death, experts say such mysteries can be tough to unravel. The key to finding answers in...

For most of the last year, a white, two-story tent on a dreary side street near the East River has sheltered nearly 20,000 riddles. The 16 refrigerated trailers inside the tent have served as the temporary resting places for 19,906 bits of flesh and bone...

Arnold Schwarzenegger walks into Lucca, one of his favorite restaurants near the Capitol, its walls dominated by an enormous painting of a goose and a copper-framed mirror as wide as a Hummer. Bursting from his suit, his hair that peculiar Arnold orange,...

Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, who has publicly called on the Roman Catholic Church to be open in its response to the sexual abuse scandal, tried this spring to derail an effort by church officials to figure out exactly how many priests may have...

"There have got to be some issues going on in this guy's life." - Pat Brown, criminal profiler, CNN, Oct. 3 -------------------- "We can't kid ourselves; this is a terrorist." - Clint Van Zandt, former FBI profiler, MSNBC, Oct. 7 -------------------- "I...

Although I am an Israeli academic, I have long and deep ties to America. I have spent several years on both coasts of the United States. American publishers have published all of my books and most of my professional papers. Almost all of my non-Israeli...

Is there a serial killer loose in the state? State and local authorities hesitate to use that sinister phrase, but say there is plenty of evidence to warrant posing the question. Authorities will sit down Tuesday and share information about the slayings...

Monday April 15, 1996      When a movie starring Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin and Jack Lemmon opens without press previews, you can't help but suspect that something's gone wrong with it. Alas, just about everything is wrong with "Getting Away With Murder,"...