(CNN) — Bruce Windsor is known as many things: church deacon, soccer coach, father of four. But facing potential financial problems, he’s now known as something else: suspected bank robber.
Police say the 43-year-old owner of a real estate company walked into the Carolina First Bank in Greenville, South Carolina, late Thursday with a mask and [...]
Church deacon, soccer coach, father - bank robbery suspect
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · News
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Waco Police Say Church Employee Steals Over 150-Thousand Dollars
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · News
WACO - A Waco woman was arrested for allegedly stealing over 150-thousand dollars from a local church. The three-page arrest affidavit outlines how police say 37-year old Patricia Poehls stole from St. Jerome’s Catholic Church on Chapel Road in Waco, which was her employer at the time.
According to police it was first discovered Poehls had a draft set up to bill [...]
Tags: Catholic·church·financial·theft
NY1 Special Report: New Archbishop Says Church Has Learned From Sex Scandal
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments · News
On Ash Wednesday, New York’s new Archbishop Timothy Dolan sat down with NY1’s Dean Meminger for an interview to discuss the issues facing New York’s Catholic Church.
“I’m very honored and grateful. But that doesn’t mask for a second that it is going to be tough leaving. There is some penance, some dying in that,” said [...]
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Baptist youth counselor charged with raping girl
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments · News
QUINCY - A youth counselor at a Baptist church in Quincy that later merged with a Hull congregation faces a charge he raped a 14-year-old girl who was a member of his Bible study class.
Robert J. Morris Jr., 28, of 141 Commercial St., Braintree, was arraigned Monday in Quincy District Court on a charge of [...]
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No mercy - call for pedophile Andrew William Dawson-Ryan
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · News
A REMORSELESS Anglican Church pedophile who systematically abused boys “hundreds of times” must be shown no mercy, say prosecutors.
Prosecutors today told the District Court there was no reason to extend leniency to former Church of England Boys Society youth leader Andrew William Dawson-Ryan.
The 60-year-old’s counsel were hard-pressed to disagree – an hour-long hearing, set down [...]
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