By Bob Holliday NORMAL - Ann Howland was driving down Hovey Avenue in 2004 feeling really down. What she saw when she glanced up at the message board of Grace Church made her day.

By Dennis Huspeni, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Nov. 11--The wrangling over who owns the Grace Church building at 601 N. Tejon St. continued this week as Episcopal Diocese officials filed new claims against the "secessionist group" led by the Rev. Donald Armstrong.

By Louis Medina, The Bakersfield Californian Oct. 21--Chad Vegas, pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Bakersfield, insists he has no trouble separating his life as a minister from his life as a trustee on the board of the Kern High School District.

By Andrea Moss, North County Times, Escondido, Calif. Mar.

By Teri Maddox, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Jan. 11--David Filkins can identify with Jon Brough, the Belleville police sergeant who survived a shotgun blast to the face while trying to capture a double-murder suspect in November.