The Rev. Wesley A. Roberts took on the interim pastor role at Peoples Baptist Church of Boston in 1980, and has remained there since.

A Detroit construction company owner “rebuilding Detroit” is battling with city hall after it threatened to seize a house on ...

For Rev. Makeeda Brooks, ministry was not just a calling but a destiny. As the pastor of St. John AME Church, Brooks is a ...

The presidential campaign in 1976 was a bitter one pitting the incumbent, Gerald R. Ford, against the challenger, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter. Ford was named vice president after the resignation of ...

The Seahawks added to their secondary on Wednesday, signing former Saints cornerback Shemar Jean-Charles. Jean-Charles, 26, came into the league as a fifth-round pick of the Green Bay Packers.

ORLAND, Ind. (WPTA) - A recently retired Orland pastor has been arrested on several child molestation charges, court documents say. Rodger Strong, 69, is accused of molesting a 5-year-old girl on five ...

Former North Texas-based pastor of Gateway Church, Robert Morris, was booked and released on bond from the Osage County jail on Monday. Last week, Morris was indicted on five counts of lewd or ...

Former Texas megachurch pastor Robert Preston Morris, 63, surrendered to Oklahoma authorities on charges of child sexual abuse. Morris was accused of committing lewd acts with a child from 1983 to ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma -- An Oklahoma woman recalled a traveling evangelist who preached at her family's church in Osage County more than 40 years ago. In 1982, the preacher, along with his wife ...

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