FILE - In this March 13, 2016, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sings during service at Mount Zion Fellowship Church in Highland Hills, Ohio. Black Baptist churches may not seem like an obvious match for Clinton, a white Methodist from the Chicago suburbs. |
Sunday morning at Grace Baptist Church in this New York City suburb finds Hillary Clinton in her comfort zone. "This is the day the Lord has made," Clinton says as sunshine streams through the stained-glass windows and hits the packed pews. "Being here at this church with these beautiful people, knowing how grateful I am for this spring day. |
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — Residents of the rural southern Ohio community of Piketon are rattled by a rare major crime that took the lives of eight members of a tight-knit family known in the area as hard workers. Authorities were still trying Sunday to find out who targeted the seven adults and teenage boy and why. |
When I was 23 and brand new to campus ministry at the University of Illinois, I met a pastor who was about 60. He noticed my youthful zeal and then took it upon himself to warn me about being "too friendly." People will come and people will go, he said. So will pastors, he warned. "You'll probably be gone in five years yourself. |
'To some, our bond is entirely natural, to others it comes as a strange surprise, but most soon see the strength of our feelings and our devotion to each other. We have now been together for 15 years. 'Too often, our society seeks to label people by pinning them on the wall — straight, gay or in between. |
First of Two Parts RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO Next to belief in God, the most basic tenet of Christianity, and in this century, of civilization itself as we know it, is reverence for human life. The two beliefs are in fact linked, since human life is a gift of God, and no human, no human institution, can take it away. |
(Reuters) - A manhunt for a suspect or suspects in the execution-style killings of eight family members in south-central Ohio entered its second full day on Sunday, with authorities providing no fresh information about the murders or the investigation. |
POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- A serial robber is off the streets of Haines City. Police arrested the suspect after he fled from authorities and crashed his vehicle following another armed robbery. Haines City Police said Clemente Gandy, 42, was captured Friday night after an armed robbery at the Sunoco Gas Station at 35855 U. |
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) - The Latest on the slayings of members of one southern Ohio family (all times local): 6:15 p.m. A spokeswoman for Ohio's attorney general says investigators are continuing to look for the person or persons who targeted eight family members found slain in rural southern Ohio. |
An out-of-breath caller who found two of the eight slain family members told a 911 dispatcher in a quavering voice that "there's blood all over the house." "I think my brother-in-law's dead," she said, her voice rising as she adds later that it looks like someone has "beat the crap out of them. |
6:15 p.m. A spokeswoman for Ohio's attorney general says investigators are continuing to look for the person or persons who targeted eight family members found slain in rural southern Ohio. Seven adults and a teenage boy were found fatally shot Friday at four different properties near Piketon, about 60 miles south of Columbus. |
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) - The Latest on the slayings of members of one southern Ohio family (all times local): 6:15 p.m. A spokeswoman for Ohio's attorney general says investigators are continuing to look for the person or persons who targeted eight family members found slain in rural southern Ohio. |
ORANGE - Family Worship Center in Orange helped victims across Southeast Texas on Saturday, by giving them free food, clothing, and even furniture and a chance to start all over. "We were missed placed for a while after the floods we were staying in a hotel for a while." Said Veronica Cole. Cole lost her home to the floods last month. |
PIKETON, Ohio - The Latest on the slayings of members of one southern Ohio family (all times local): 6:15 p.m. A spokeswoman for Ohio's attorney general says investigators are continuing to look for the person or persons who targeted eight family members found slain in rural southern Ohio. |
PEEBLES, Ohio — The voice of the young woman who found the first of eight victims of execution-style killings in rural Ohio was breathless and distraught as she told the 911 dispatcher of her grim discovery: There was "blood all over the house" and the bodies of her brother-in-law and a cousin looked as if someone "beat the hell out of them. |
"I think my brother-in-law's dead," she said, her voice rising as she adds later that it looks like someone has "beat the crap out of them." "I think they're both dead," she said before breaking down into sobs, according to one of two 911 call recordings released Saturday by the state attorney general's office. |
UPDATE (5:41 p.m. 4/23/16) The names of the eight victims in the Pike County,Ohio, shootings were released Saturday evening. According to the Ohio Attorney General's Office, Hannah Gilley, 20; Christopher Rhoden Sr., 40: Christopher Rhoden Jr., 16; Clarence "Frankie'' Rhoden, 21; Dana Rhoden, 37;.... |
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) - The Latest on the slayings of members of one southern Ohio family (all times local): 5:40 p.m. Authorities have identified the eight family members who were fatally shot in the head in rural southern Ohio. Seven adults and a teenage boy were found dead Friday at four different properties. |
The Latest on the slayings of members of one southern Ohio family (all times local): 5:40 p.m. Authorities have identified the eight family members who were fatally shot in the head in rural southern Ohio. Seven adults and a teenage boy were found dead Friday at four different properties. |
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on the slayings of members of one southern Ohio family (all times local): 5:40 p.m. Authorities have identified the eight family members who were fatally shot in the head in rural southern Ohio. Seven adults and a teenage boy were found dead Friday at four different properties. |
Two relatives who stumbled on the massacred bodies of their family members inside their homes in rural Ohio called the police to report that "there was blood all over the house," chilling 911 call audio released by the Ohio Attorney General's Office reveals. |
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on the slayings of members of one southern Ohio family (all times local): 5:40 p.m. Authorities have identified the eight family members who were fatally shot in the head in rural southern Ohio. Seven adults and a teenage boy were found dead Friday at four different properties. |
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — An out-of-breath caller who found two of the eight slain members of an Ohio family told a 911 dispatcher in a quavering voice that "there's blood all over the house." "I think my brother-in-law's dead," she said, her voice rising as she adds later that it looks like someone has "beat the crap out of them. |
The Latest on the slayings of members of one southern Ohio family (all times local): 5:40 p.m. Authorities have identified the eight family members who were fatally shot in the head in rural southern Ohio. Seven adults and a teenage boy were found dead Friday at four different properties. |
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) - The Latest on the slayings of members of one southern Ohio family (all times local): 5:40 p.m. Authorities have identified the eight family members who were fatally shot in the head in rural southern Ohio. Seven adults and a teenage boy were found dead Friday at four different properties. |
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