“Oh, I totally disagree with that.” “That” was the assertion in a 2012 New York Times profile of Valerie Jarrett that “if Karl Rove was known as George W. Bush’s political brain, Ms. Jarrett is [President] Obama’s spine.” Jarrett’s immediate pushback in the 20th episode of “Cape UP” explains why she....

Authorities are offering a $40,000 reward for an Arkansas gunman who opened fire into a car and killed a 3-year-old boy in a fit of road rage. The city of Little Rock Arkansas and the FBI are each offering $20,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest of the attacker, who was still at large on Tuesday.

BERLIN (AP) - Chancellor Angela Merkel already knew that her campaign for a fourth term as Germany's leader will be her most difficult yet. The deadly truck attack on a Christmas market may have made it tougher - and is already polarizing opinion. A nationalist party that has assailed Merkel's....

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel already knew that her campaign for a fourth term as Germany's leader will be her most difficult yet. The deadly truck attack on a Christmas market may have made it tougher — and is already polarizing opinion. A nationalist party that has assailed Merkel's....

*This is the kind of behavior that causes folks to scratch their head. What kind of heartless “Christ-follower” would be so cruel as to tell children that Santa doesn’t exist? But yet and still, one Texas pastor took it upon himself to do so as children stood in line to sit on Santa’s lap by....

“My [grandson’s] been shot,” she wailed over the phone to a 911 dispatcher. “Oh my God!” The shrill screams of the grandmother echoed through the sprawling mall parking lot Saturday night. The 911 calls released Monday capture the heartbreak of a woman who lost her grandson to gun violence after an apparent road rage incident.

Instead, just before Congress broke on Dec. 9, a stopgap measure was passed, extending retired miners’ health care until April. “Addressing the miner health care crisis was the only action that could be completed given the brief time available to consider legislation in the lame duck,” a spokesman for McConnell told STAT by e-mail.

The sun gave off no heat and just a flash of orange light, as freezing do-gooders sang Christmas carols Monday evening in Fairhill to an encampment of homeless heroin addicts. The singers, many from Home Quarters & Friends, a nonprofit faith-based community group, stood on the edge of the infamous....

A celebration of ministry, including a soup and salad lunch and program, was held for Leonard and his wife, Cindy, after the service to give more than 200 members of the congregation the opportunity to express appreciation to the couple for their contributions and bid them farewell.

MOBILE, AL (WALA) - Mobile Police spokesman Terence Perkins has confirmed that a baby was taken from Nazarene Day Care and Learning at approximately 1:17 p.m. and transported to a local hospital where the child was pronounced dead on Monday, December 19. The facility is located at 669 Azalea Road in Mobile.

MOBILE, AL (WALA) - The Nazarene day care is listed on the Alabama Department of Human Resources website as an exempt daycare facility. B. Spencer Baggott II is the director named on the DHR site. Baggot is also listed as the lead pastor for Mobile First Church of the Nazarene. The daycare has been in operation since 1982.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The Latest on sentencing of two men on corruption charges in (all times local): 5 p.m. pastor Kenneth Fairley has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing federal housing money. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett sentenced Fairley Monday, local media report,....

HOUSTON - A man accused of stabbing his mother to death last week sobbed Monday morning as he made his first appearance in court. Blake Jefferson, 22, is charged with murder in connection with the Friday morning death of his mother, Dedre Jefferson, at her Garden Grove Court home.

CHATTANOOGA, TN (WRCB) - A special gift arrived early for the holidays as the New Covenant Fellowship Church dedicated its newest playground. The playground is in honor of the six Woodmore children who were killed in a bus crash last month. Neighbors, teachers, and church officials gathered at the....

A DRUNKARD got beaten up by Zion church pastors after burning their church and he avenged the beating by striking a church member with an axe. Eliphas Ncube of Sishowe village appeared at the Bulawayo magistrates court before magistrate Charity Maphosa on charges of malicious damage to property and assault.

Sesan Olufowobi. A non-governmental organisation, The Counselling Ambassadors Organisation, TCAO, says the Yuletide will not be complete if poor Nigerians are not smiling. The founder of TCAO, Pastor Iyabo Obasa, on Monday at an empowerment event said privileged Nigerians must bridge the gap for the....

Oh dear!...may the good Lord deliver him from destiny wasters. A Nigerian man who was sentenced to life imprisonment over a crime he did not commit has regained his freedom. According to Omega Fire Ministry, Lagos, he was released after spending 16 years and 3 months in the prison.

The first of four people has been sentenced to probation in a Hattiesburg corruption case that snared a developer, a pastor, a sheriff's official and a restaurant owner. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett sentenced developer Artie Fletcher on Monday to three years' probation and $69,000 restitution to the U.

Leland Stephens was so eager for what was about to happen to him this weekend that he had trouble sleeping for days. “I am so excited I’m about to burst wide open,” the 86-year-old Baptist minister from Monroe, N.C., told the Charlotte Observer recently.

Doering scoured old Yahoo group posts about adopting from China. Two days later, she had puzzled out the identity of the second girl as Gracie, the adopted daughter of Nicole and Scott Rainsberry of Richland, Washington. Doering reached them through Scott Rainsberry’s sister’s Facebook page.

MOBILE, AL (WALA) - Mobile Police spokesman Terence Perkins has confirmed that a baby was taken from Nazarene Day Care and Learning at approximately 1:17 p.m. and transported to a local hospital where the child was pronounced dead on Monday, December 19. The facility is located at 669 Azalea Road in Mobile.

SPRINGFIELD -- An assistant professor of criminal justice at Springfield College has joined the city's Community Police Hearing Board, the civilian body that hears complaints against officers and makes disciplinary recommendations to Police Commissioner John Barbieri. Mayor Domenic Sarno announced the appointment of Dr.

MOBILE, AL (WALA) - Mobile Police spokesman Terence Perkins has confirmed that a baby was taken from Nazarene Day Care and Learning at approximately 1:17 p.m. and transported to a local hospital where the child was pronounced dead on Monday, December 19. The facility is located at 669 Azalea Road in Mobile.

With Zimbabwe teetering on the edge of financial collapse, First Lady Grace Mugabe is spending millions on new properties and jewellery and is building the country’s most expensive schools for the elite. By Peta Thornycroft. With grinding poverty and a cash crisis which means there are never-ending....

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Head-goes-herey-10806590.php. Head goes herey. By Xxxxx Xxxxx, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Published 2:50 pm, Monday, December 19, 2016. I mentioned It's a Wonderful Life in a sermon on a recent Sunday. I was preaching in James 4 where James warns us about making plans about tomorrow while leaving God out of the equation.