Marriage

A fairytale wedding never took a recession into consideration. "We started planning our wedding a year ago," said Lori Sabatello, 27, of Mount Sinai. "If we were doing it now, and this is how the economy was, we would have invited less people or had it...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gay couples from around California and the nation are feverishly tying the knot ahead of Election Day to avoid missing out if voters approve a ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage. Aaron Twitchell and Orlando Manzo from...

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) _ Levi Johnston, who's having a baby with Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, can't believe all the things he's hearing. No, he wasn't held against his will on the campaign trail. No, he's not being forced into a shotgun wedding with 17-...

Levi Johnston, who's having a baby with the daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin, can't believe all the things he's hearing. No, he wasn't held against his will on the campaign trail. No, he's not being forced into a...

A week ago, Father Geoffrey Farrow stood before his Roman Catholic parishioners in Fresno and delivered a sermon that placed him squarely at odds with his church over gay marriage. With Proposition 8 on the November ballot, and his own bishop urging...

HARTFORD - Now that the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled same-sex couples have the right to wed, opponents of gay marriage are pinning their hopes on an infrequent ballot question in a longshot bid to block the unions. Every 20 years, voters can force...

Wall Street was the infernal engine that drove the news in Connecticut last week. At a stultifying debate in Nashville, the presidential candidates blamed one another for failing to recognize warning signs of the greed that has crippled credit markets...

Announcing to friends and family that you're engaged, well, there's little that elicits bigger squeals of delight or heartier slaps on the back. Or more sleepless nights worrying about your checking account balance, more fantasies about robbing a bank .....

For years, Beth Kerrigan tried to talk herself out of being gay. The daughter of devout Irish Catholics, Kerrigan kept her sexuality a secret from her family. She pretended the boys she windsurfed, skied and biked with were boyfriends. If female...

One of the nice things about justice in America is the way all the things that were done to keep you down and smack you upside the head start working in your favor once you get into an appellate court. So it went with the case of Kerrigan et al v. the...

In all but one way, the visitation-rights case that was decided in Baltimore County Circuit Court last week was typical of the legal wrangling that follows many a divorce - a couple splits up, the custodial parent doesn't want the ex to see the kid....

Kimberly Nelson heard a voice the first time Frank Perrotta invited her to his house after school. "He totally wasn't my type," Kimberly says of Frank. "I had another guy I really liked," but she was intrigued by Frank, who was 17, a senior at Cromwell...