A bar in Fenton partly owned by former Red Wing was a den of public sex, lewd displays and underage and after-hours drinking, according to a lawsuit filed by a former employee in Genesee Circuit Court.

, a mother of five, claims she lost her job at Joe and Lewie's Penalty Box Sports Tavern after refusing to cover up the activities, her attorney, of Bloomfield Hills, said Monday.

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Where have all the heroes gone? By Joshua WoodsThe other day, as I watched my 8-year-old nephew play with a Star Wars action figure, I asked him, "Is Luke your hero?"

With youthful disdain, he corrected me. "This is Anakin Skywalker," he said. "He's a bad guy." Moments later he returned the question: "Who's your hero?"

Oddly, it caught me off guard. I looked into his hopeful eyes...

—Anne-Louise Germaine Necker, aka Madame de Staël (1766-1817) -- French author and political philosopher "What a bummer it is to be a human being."

(Swans - October 24, 2005) The questions on the agenda -- What have we come to? Who are we? And what do we stand for? -- come from two readers of first, TomDispatch, and second, the New York Times (see the front page ). They were as...

What's in a name? New lines of tires for GoodyearBy Theresa Howard, USA TODAYNEW YORK - A glimmer of glamour in advertising sometimes succeeds in giving even prosaic products a little sex appeal.

Until now, however, that's rarely worked for tires. Goodyear is trying to change that with more descriptive names, such as SilentArmor, and crafty engineering, such as using Kevlar — of b...

Trafficking permeates economyBy Russ Juskalian, Special for USA TODAY"Governments are changed more often by bullets than votes," declares an arms dealer in the recently released film Lord of War. Hollywood is a land of exaggerations, but such hyperbole is often wrapped in truth.

Moisés Naím, author of the new book Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking t...

Outlook on teen sex requires parental input The definition of sex has clearly been redefined. Thanks for coverage that highlights this reality ("Teens define sex in new ways," Cover story, Life; "What is sex? 'Technical virginity' becomes part of teens' equation," Life, Wednesday).

• American teenagers lead the industrialized world in sexually transmitted diseases.

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The WB has started its third consecutive fall broadcast season with significant overall prime-time ratings declines, causing some concern among media buyers, but still not enough in their minds to threaten the long-term advertising viability of the network.

While WB’s archrival UPN has made inroads in the first month of the season—passing the WB in viewers and key female dem...

Bare-minimum diet: Is long life the payoff? By Kathleen Fackelmann, USA TODAYKhurram Hashmi has drastically cut the calories he consumes — eating mostly salads and raw vegetables — in the hopes of living a longer, better life.

But he's hungry almost all the time. "That's something for me that has never gone away, but it is easier to accept now," says Hashmi, 37. He says he u...

This has resulted in the closing of reproductive health clinics around the world that depend on international funding for staying open. More than 50,000 women die every year from unsafe abortion, a statistic that could be virtually eliminated by the provision of appropriate health information and services. And with the closing of the clinics, condoms become scarce and life-saving HIV prevention...

USA's last all-male military college to admit womenWAYNE, Pa. (AP) - Valley Forge Military College, the last all-male military college in the country, will accept women beginning next fall.

The decision will allow women into ROTC, military service academy prepatory programs, the two-year transfer college and the Army Early Commissioning Program, where cadets earn Army commissions in two ...