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Apr 16 2023
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Dadeville football player bound for Jacksonville State killed at sister’s birthday party, pastor says
A pastor in Dadeville said as many as 250 people were outside an east Alabama hospital early this morning to hear word of loved ones injured or killed in a shooting at a 16th birthday party. Ben Hayes is the senior pastor at Dadeville First Baptist Church, and is team chaplain of Dadeville High School and chaplain of Dadeville police. “It was a very sad, sad scene,” he said. “A very rough
AL.com
Apr 17 2023
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Flooding forces closure of small section of Boise River Greenbelt along Parkcenter
With Boise River flows nearing 5,000 cubic feet per second, a stretch of the Greenbelt is closed because of flooding. A portion of the Bethine Church River Trail, a 1.6-mile unpaved nature trail located on the south side of the river along Parkcenter Boulevard, is experiencing pools of water, which has created muddy and hazardous conditions. The closure is in effect from mile marker 3.0 to 3.5
Idaho Statesman
Apr 17 2023
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Minneapolis mayor signs ordinance allowing Islamic call to prayer year round
Muslim leaders say Minneapolis is now the first major U.S. city to allow broadcasts of all five daily calls to prayer. MINNEAPOLIS — With the stroke of a pen, the more than 20 mosques throughout Minneapolis are now allowed to publicly broadcast the Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, five times per day throughout the year. "Just like church bells or the ringing of the shofar, they are all
KARE11
Apr 15 2023
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School staffer, director of child development programs among 6 arrested in Oregon child sex sting
On Thursday, six people were arrested in Washington County Oregon for luring of a minor and online sexual corruption of a child in the first degree; both felony charges. According to the Sheriff's office, two of the men had jobs working with children. 26-year old Te’Vari Jenkins, of Gresham, was the Director of Childhood Development Programs for the Club K program in the Wilsonville area. The
The Post Millennial
Apr 18 2023
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Sexual abuse survivors call for restart of cases tied to Baltimore Archdiocese
BALTIMORE -- Lawyers representing some sex abuse victims tied to the Archdiocese of Baltimore are calling on prosecutors to restart criminal investigations against those named in the Maryland Attorney General's recent report. That report, released nearly two weeks ago, named more than 150 accused abusers. They're mostly clergy and church staff. Baltimore attorney Thiru Vignarajah is now
CBS News (Online)
Apr 05 2023
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DOJ reaches $144.5 million tentative settlement with Sutherland Springs mass shooting victims
Victims of the 2017 mass shooting at a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church have reached a tentative agreement with the Justice Department to settle their yearslong legal battle with the government for $144.5 million, according to an attorney for the victims and the Justice Department.
Twenty-six were killed and 22 were injured in the Nov. 5, 2017, massacre at the small, rural First
ABC News (Online)
Apr 16 2023
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Student bound for Division 1 football career among victims of Alabama party shooting
Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell, an honours student on his way to play Division 1 college football, was among the victims of a mass shooting at a party in Alabama on Saturday that left four dead, according to a local pastor. “It was a very sad, sad scene,” Ben Hayes, senior pastor at Dadeville First Baptist Church and team chaplain of Dadeville High School, where Dowdell played multiple sports,
The Independent
Apr 17 2023
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Nonprofits scramble for help as fewer people volunteer
CASA of Lexington has tried just about everything to find volunteers to serve as advocates for abused and neglected children with the Kentucky nonprofit. Since 2020, it has hired someone to focus on recruiting volunteers, added in-person and virtual outreach events and options to complete the required 30-hour training, and printed information on fans to hand out in churches, Melynda Milburn
Portland Press Herald
Apr 17 2023
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Defrocked Catholic cardinal, 92, is charged with sexually assaulting Wisconsin teen
The defrocked Roman Catholic cardinal who became the face of the church's clergy sex abuse crisis has been charged in Wisconsin with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man more than 45 years ago, court records show. A criminal complaint filed Friday alleges that Theodore McCarrick, who was removed from the priesthood in 2019 after a Vatican investigation found he had sexually molested adults
The Independent
Mar 21 2023
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Classmates, Arlington community mourn victim of ‘senseless school shooting’ at Lamar High
Prayer services and a candlelight vigil were held Tuesday evening for Ja’Shawn Poirier, the student who was fatally shot Monday outside of Lamar High School in Arlington. The first vigil was at a prayer garden at Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, at 2100 N. Davis Drive, followed by another service at New World United Methodist Church, at 2201 N. Davis. “Our hearts are heavy and our