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3. Jury convicts Ind. man of killing family | A jury convicted a man Friday of killing his father, stepmother and two stepsisters 17 years ago inside their church parsonage home so he could attend some high school prom events (Associated Press)
   
   
4. Guilty verdicts cap Baptist case | Two former executives of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona were convicted Monday of fraud and racketeering related to the foundation's 1999 collapse, ending a 10-month trial (The Arizona Republic, video)
   
   
5. Baptist group's leaders convicted | Investors lost $585 million (The Washington Post)
   
   
6. Two convicted in Baptist Foundation collapse | Two top executives with the now-defunct Baptist Foundation of Arizona, which collapsed in 1999 in the largest nonprofit bankruptcy in U.S. history, were found guilty on Monday of charges that could send them to prison for decades (Reuters)
   
   

Marriage & family :

1. Till hardships do all of us part | Apparently the 20-year mark is the Heartbreak Hill of marriage (E.J. Graff, The Boston Globe)
   
   
2. A heavy, symbolic load | No married couple is meant to live under a microscope (Eileen McNamara, The Boston Globe)
   
   
3. Can't get enough baby talk | From presidents to celebrities, toddlers prove adorable and useful (Meghan Daum, Los Angeles Times)
   
   

People :

1. The kingdom of heaven: yours for £25 | Morris Cerullo goes to London (The Telegraph, London)
   
   
2. Tug-of-war over priest's body is finally resolved | The body of an eccentric English cleric who spent four decades working to improve the lot of India's lower castes has finally been laid to rest after being exhumed and re-buried three times in a bizarre tug-of-war (The Telegraph, London)
   
   
3. Council lifts ban on controversial US evangelist | Hackney council have rescinded a ban placed on American evangelist and former gangster Nicky Cruz, after he apologised for comments he had made about homosexuality (Ekklesia, U.K.)
   
   

History :

1. 1,500-year-old Byzantine port discovered | Archaeologists call it the "Port of Theodosius," after the emperor of Rome and Byzantium who died in A.D. 395. They expect to gain insights into ancient commercial life in the city, once called Constantinople, that was the capital of the eastern Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Ireland worker finds ancient psalms in bog | The approximately 20-page book has been dated to the years 800-1000. Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan said it was the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries (Associated Press)
   
   

More articles of interest :

1. He who cast the first stone probably didn't | Research shows that while people think of their own actions as the consequences of what came before, they think of other people's actions as the causes of what came later (Daniel Gilbert, The New York Times)
   
   
2. How different are Christian and Islamic fundamentalists? | Both believe in following a text literally and both are capable of violence (Joshua Holland, Alternet)
   
   
3. City may regulate memorials | Officials see a danger in sites dedicated to homicide victims (The Boston Globe)
   
   

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