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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Shortly before this poverty-stricken city began drawing its drinking water from a local river in a cost-cutting move nearly two years ago, officials huddled at the municipal water treatment plant, running through a checklist of final preparations. |
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MACGREGOR, Man. - The parents of a two-year-old boy who was found dead after wandering away from their rural Manitoba home held each other close as a tiny, white casket was carried out of a church on Wednesday. Chase Martens was last seen playing in the yard of his home near Austin last Tuesday, and a massive search followed. |
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When Joshua McKoon learned that AT&T, Bank of America and hundreds of other companies had taken out a full-page newspaper advertisement to protest Georgia's "religious liberty" bill, the Republican state senator took to Twitter. "How grotesque," he wrote. |
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Illinois' highest court agreed Wednesday to hear an appeal in the case of Drew Peterson , who is asking the court to toss out his 2012 conviction in the notorious murder of his third wife. "It means that maybe someone's finally gonna listen," said Steven Greenberg, an attorney for Peterson. |
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SAN JOSE -- In an ambitious plan to house 700 homeless veterans in the next two years, elected leaders Wednesday called on churches and other faith organizations to open their doors to those who served our country and live on the streets -- offering landlord incentives to the faith leaders if they help find a qualified unit. |
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Roslynn West says she and her family are traumatized with the way Western Health treated her sister's possessions after she passed away at the long-term care home in Corner Brook. When West's sister Karen Norman died earlier this year, West went by her room at the home, where she found out she had 24 hours to clear the room of all Norman's things. |
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Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, at a news conference in Montgomery on march 23, 2016, admitted that he made inappropriate remarks to a top female staffer, but he denied accusations that he had a physical affair.
A top political aide to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is resigning a week after he.... |
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Attorneys for popular pastor the reverend Merrick ‘Al’ Miller today closed their case in his corruption trial before the Corporate Area Criminal Court. This now clears the way for closing arguments from prosecutors and defence attorneys before a verdict from Resident Magistrate Simone Wolfe-Reece. |
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By Usman Shuaibu. The president Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to emulate the leadership quality of our past heroes such as late Sarduana of Sokoto, late Tafawa Balewa, late Obafemi Awolowo and late General Mohammed Murtala among others who had contributed tremendously towards the progress of Nigeria. |
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JACKSON, Miss. — The Senate on Tuesday passed the "Mississippi Church Protection Act" to allow armed security in churches, concealed carry without a permit and provide for attempts to nullify federal regulations and executive orders that would limit gun rights. There was much debate. Sen. |
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A businessman named Gerald Chukwueke has filed an N800 million lawsuit against the senior pastor of the House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, for allegedly trespassing his land located in the Lekki area of Lagos state. In the court paper filed before Justice Adebisi Akinlade of the Lagos State.... |
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Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, at a news conference in Montgomery on march 23, 2016, admitted that he made inappropriate remarks to a top female staffer, but he denied accusations that he had a physical affair.
A top political aide to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is resigning a week after he.... |
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Respected preacher and founder of House on the Rock Church, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, has been sued for N800 million. Leadership reports that a certain Gerald Chukwueke and four other people, have dragged the pastor to court for trespassing unto their land in Ikate, Lekki, Lagos. |
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Dying Light, I am happy you do not resort to abuses, insults in this heated debate. It shows you are a very matured and enlightened person. I am someone practising science but I happen to have a belief that is above science or at least that science is proving albeit unknowingly to the unbelieving scientists. |
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Jaynes founded the Irvington church in 1998. According to court records, Jaynes employed church members in his drug enterprise, and members wrote personal checks to foreign suppliers of illegal substances used to make spice. Some laundered profits through personal bank accounts. |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A seemingly divided Supreme Court is exploring a possible compromise ruling in the dispute between faith-based groups and the Obama administration over birth control. The justices issued an unusual order Tuesday directing both sides in the case to file a new round of legal briefs by April 20. |
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Bailey, a clergywoman for the African Methodist Episcopal Church, on the (s)heroes who inspired her feminism: "As a Christian leader, my feminism means daily affirming the full humanity and capabilities of women as part of God's beloved creation and their sacred work in the world. |
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. During the course of a few days, a series of events causing alarm have taken place around the world. These events imitate terrorist acts. There was an incredibly tense atmosphere in the American capital Washington DC after a man who tried to enter the US Capitol with a gun was shot. |
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Permit me to begin this legal discourse by expressing unreserved gratitude to the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, for furnishing me with the electronic copy of the Kaduna State Religious Preaching Bill 2016 which is currently.... |
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The Indianapolis Star ( http://indy.st/231bKSr ) reports that 45-year-old Robert Jaynes Jr. of Irvington Bible Baptist Church in Indianapolis pleaded guilty Tuesday to producing almost 100 tons of synthetic marijuana and conspiracy to commit fraud through the mislabeling of the controlled substance. |
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A Rockland couple is suing their former church in Ottawa, alleging that it falsely led them to believe an educational program in which they enrolled their children met Ontario educational standards and would prepare their two sons for college and university. |
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GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman (CNS) -- Richard Parchment, the former chief political assistant to McKeeva Bush when he was premier, has admitted that his daughter was one of only a handful of Caymanian students who received annual scholarship grants worth more than $60,000 from the Nation Building Fund to play basketball. |
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State Dining Room. 9:45 A.M. EDT. THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everyone. This is one of our favorite events. And it's an honor to be with so many faith leaders and lay faithful this one last time for Easter in the White House -- with us, anyway. AUDIENCE: Noooo -- THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, I'll tell you what, it's been a great honor. |
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Updated 17 hours ago Local religious leaders will take part in a panel discussion, “The Religions of Monroeville Present: What We Can Do About Poverty and Inequality,” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. April 6 at the Monroeville Public Library, 4000 Gateway Campus Blvd. Panelists will include the Rev. Joe Luisi, Dr. |
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Robert Jaynes Jr. pleaded guilty to two federal charges Tuesday, March 29, 2016. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy. |
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