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This May 19, 1992 photo shows Chicago area priest Father Norbert Maday in Chicago. The Archdiocese of Chicago spent decades covering up the sexual abuse of children according to documents released by Church officials last week and being made public on Tuesday, Jan 21, 2014, by victims’ attorneys as part of legal settlements. The internal documents show how officials from the archdiocese handled allegations of child sexual abuse by priests. Maday was imprisoned in Wisconsin after a 1994 conviction for molesting two boys. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Rich Hein) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT
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In this Dec. 18, 2013 photo, David Borris, owner of Hel's Kitchen Catering in Northbrook, Ill., poses for a photo in his company's kitchen. Borris said the health law doesn’t affect his hiring. He employs 25 full-timers and up to 80 others during the busy holiday party season. He has offered insurance for full-time workers since 1990 and believes the law has stabilized what he pays for insurance premiums. Borris, whose suburban Chicago company is too small to fall under the law’s mandate, argues that health benefits attract good workers. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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In this photo provided by ITV plc, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, television characters Roy and Hayley Cropper, played by David Neilson and Julie Hesmondhalgh, in a scene from Coronation Street. It was one of the gentlest deaths in soap-opera history, but it has provoked a strong reaction in Britain. More than 10 million people watched the long-running soap "Coronation Street" on Monday, evening, as Hayley Cropper, sick with incurable pancreatic cancer, took an overdose of drugs and died in the arms of her loving husband Roy. Some praised the storyline for its sensitive handling of illness and death, but others said it risked encouraging suicides. Right-to-die campaigner Jane Nicklinson, whose late husband battled for the right to have a doctor help him end his life, said the story had "done our cause proud." But anti-euthanasia group Care Not Killing said Tuesday that the program was "in great danger of normalizing an occurrence that is actually very rare indeed." (AP Photo/ITV plc)
