Druids, pagans mark shortest day of year during foggy sunrise at Stonehenge

Druids, pagans mark shortest day of year

LONDON — Hundreds of people have celebrated the winter solstice at Stonehenge, braving snowy travel conditions and a morning fog.

4 defendants plead guilty in federal case against Pagans Motorcycle Club in West Virginia

4 in Pagans Motorcycle Club case plead guilty

4 charged in Pagans Motorcycle Club case scheduled to enter guilty pleas

4 charged in Pagans case set to plead guilty

Sudan’s southern leader says his people may to choose to secede in 2011 referendum

Sudan’s leader says south may to choose to split

Federa judge orders Pagans president held without bond on racketeering charges

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal judge has ordered the indicted national president of the Pagans Motorcycle Club held without bond pending trial on racketeering charges.

Pagan festival in rural, religious Pa. village draws shop closures, threatened protests

ADAMSTOWN, Pa. — In the rolling hills of deeply religious rural Pennsylvania sits Stoudtburg Village, a tiny hamlet modeled on a German town. On weekends, tourists come here to visit shops on the ground floors of closely set three-story houses painted bright colors on pedestrian-only streets.

Russian pagans celebrate summer solstice despite opposition from Orthodox Church

MALOYAROSLAVETS, Russia — Tambourine throbbing in hand, Velislav chants to gods whose cult has almost been obliterated by a millennium of Christianity in Russia.

Pagans and partygoers greet summer solstice at Britain’s ancient Stonehenge monument

STONEHENGE, England — Pagans and partygoers drummed, danced or gyrated in hula hoops to stay awake through the night, as more than 35,000 people greeted the summer solstice Sunday at the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge.

Pagans and partygoers gather to greet summer solstice at Britain’s ancient Stonehenge monument

STONEHENGE, England — Thousands of neo-Druids, New Age followers and the merely curious were flocking to Stonehenge on Saturday to await the sunrise over the prehistoric monument and celebrate the longest day of the year.