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MAGNA -- Accusations of sex abuse and assassination threats are swirling around a small religious group led by a man who claims to be the Holy Ghost. He calls the charges a pack of lies, but they prompted a raid by the Secret Service, the FBI, and child protection investigators. Six weeks ago, officers surrounded and searched the Church of the Firstborn and the General Assembly of Heaven's headquarters in Magna, interrogating members for hours. According to the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office, they found nothing. If the charges are lies, they reveal a most unusual church, torn apart by...

With all the California-centric beauty-queen action happening these days, it's been easy to forget that one young lovely was actually named Miss USA a couple weeks ago. But Kristen Dalton doesn't mind. The winner of the 2009 Miss USA Pageant told E! News that she thinks the Carrie Prejean hullabaloo has been good for the cause. "I really think that it's great for the Miss Universe Organization, because it's given us a lot of publicity," Dalton told E!'s Daily 10. "And there's gonna be a lot of people watching this Miss USA pageant next year." And as for Miss California,...

Proving that he’s just as adept at stuffing an election candidate’s coffers as he is at stuffing his own socks, Sandy Berger hosted an "almost secret" Washington fund-raiser for a recently retired three-star vice admiral last night. Vice Adm. Joseph Sestak Jr, as the Village People would say, is "In the Navy". And when you want to take an Able Danger Congressman Curt Weldon down, what better way than to send in the Navy? Berger, dubbed "Sandy Burglar" by radio meister Rush Limbaugh, gained notoriety for trying to stuff classified documents into his socks and other attire. The man, who...

Several members of President Bill Clinton’s national security team are hosting a Washington fund-raiser tonight for retired Vice Adm. Joseph Sestak Jr., the Democrat running against U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon in November. Officials at Sestak’s campaign headquarters in Media will not comment on the event, though an invitation sent out to potential donors and obtained by the Daily Times lists Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger as a host. "As a general rule, campaigns don’t comment on fund-raisers or people who hold them," said Sestak’s campaign chairman, Myles Duffy. Berger, who served as Clinton’s second-term national security adviser, pleaded guilty last year...

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) -- With the city election just days away, the two remaining candidates for mayor of Hoover are tackling what they see as a growing problem in the Birmingham suburb: illegal Hispanic immigrants. Jody Patterson and Tony Petelos are both calling for increased enforcement of immigration laws in Hoover, where scores of Spanish-speaking men typically line a well-traveled road looking for day-labor jobs. Patterson wants to bar the children of illegal immigrants from city schools, and both have criticized a center meant to help the area's foreign-born population. Partly in response to a chilly reception from the city,...

<p>Support for the war is strong in the hills around Dalton, Ga., but few know that the town of 28,000 is also home to one of the largest Arab news sites on the Internet.</p> <p>The Dalton-based Al-Jazeerah Information Center blames the conflict with Iraq on American imperialism, greed for oil and "the Israeli lobby." There's even a link to the notorious anti-Semitic forgery "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion."</p>