LOS ANGELES — Christians throughout the Southland are observing Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, when the faithful prepare for Easter by doing penance for sins and seek spiritual renewal through prayer, self-denial and good works.
Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of placing ashes of the foreheads of the faithful as a [...]
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Ash Wednesday brings memories of clergy abuse scandal
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · News
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DMX - Future Pastor - throws food at guard in jail
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · News
Spending time in solitary confinement apparently didn’t curtail DMX’s anger issues, as he allegedly threw a tray of food at a detention officer on Sunday and may spend a lot more time in prison because of it.
Maricopa County Sherriff Joe Arpaio says DMX (real name Earl Simmons) became angry after being told he couldn’t have [...]
Tags: assault·drugs·felony·jail·pastor·probation·theft
Former Minister of Music charged with sex assault on student
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · News
A former teacher at a Summit private school who also served as a Minister of Music at a Short Hills church was arrested earlier this week and charged with sexual assault for an alleged relationship with a 15-year-old girl.
Warren Halsey Brown, 67, a music teacher at the Kent Place School for nearly 15 years until [...]
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Former pastor denies sex abuse charges
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · News
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Over and over again Thursday, Sandy Martin Cook denied any sexual impropriety with three teenage boys in the 1990s while he served as pastor for the Shrewsbury Church of God.
Each time defense attorney James Cagle asked him about the allegations made by the alleged victims, Cook, 49, shook his head and denied [...]
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Former Pastor becomes Fake Doctor and gets arrested
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · News
To Timothy Lucas, it sounded like easy money.
All he had to do was let a doctor give him a physical exam and he would earn $50 — no small amount for the homeless Lexington man.
Instead, Lucas became one of an unknown number of people allegedly duped by a man posing as a doctor doing medical [...]