FULLERTON — The Rev. Willie Holmes, who was mobbed by a group of Hispanic youths Feb. 13 as he and his sons drove up to his Fullerton church, has been ordered to jail to serve a 360-day sentence jail for a probation violation stemming from a lewd conduct conviction, according to news reports.
Holmes, 41, is [...]
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A former church secretary at Denver’s Central Baptist Church located at 2400 California Street has filed a lawsuit against the church and senior pastor Willie Simmons, accusing the prominent clergyman of multiple incidents of lewd, drunken sexual conduct in the church office.
Simmons, a married, 58-year-old father of two, admits to “a sexual encounter” in the [...]
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Oral Roberts University in Tulsa reached a settlement with two former professors who sued last year, claiming they had been forced out after uncovering financial and ethical wrongdoing by the former president of the conservative Christian institution and his family. The confidential settlement with the ex-professors, Tim and Paulita Brooker, came at the end of [...]
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An Aurora man who is the last of four former officials of a Downers Grove church to be convicted of sex-related crimes was sentenced Friday to serve a year in the DuPage County jail work-release program.
Presiding DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Kathryn E. Creswell also placed John Puga on four years of sex offender probation, [...]
