CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina congressman preparing for a Baptist minister as his repeat challenger in next May’s Republican primary is on the airwaves professing his Christian faith and criticizing “political correctness” during the holidays. Ninth District Rep.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina congressman preparing for a Baptist minister as his repeat challenger in next May’s Republican primary is on the airwaves professing his Christian faith and criticizing “political correctness” during the holidays. Ninth District Rep.

In this Monday Jan. 18, 2016, file photo, U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger speaks to the media at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File) By Sally Persons - The Washington Times - Monday, November 27, 2017. Rep.

The head Pastor of the House of Bethel at Anwomaso in Kumasi who was arrested last Saturday for excessive noise making is reportedly traumatized after the incident. Reverend Kwame Takyi is distraught after the “humiliating arrest,” a church elder said.

The Christmas market in central Berlin targeted in 2016 by a deadly truck assault opened for the season on Monday, nearly a year after the attack, with new security measures. Tunisian national Anis Amri , 24, hijacked a truck on December 19 last year and slammed it into a crowd of shoppers at the....

In last year’s contest, Pittenger aired an ad on WBT-AM and on Christian radio stations touting his “deep Christian faith” and his record as “a conservative standing up for pro-family values.” Pittenger’s latest ad comes a month before Christmas and six months before the May primary.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Nov. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Cosmetology Institute of Las Vegas owner Denise Dixon will share empowering lessons on life and business during the 2nd Annual Leadership Education to Abandon Procrastination (L.E.A.P.) Conference, March 22-23, 2018, at The Conference Center of Las Vegas, 6590 Bermuda Road.

RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - GRTC will honor Rosa Parks on the anniversary of her defiant act on a Montgomery bus. Sixty-three years ago, on Dec. 1, 1955, Parks helped change the course of history by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She was arrested and fined. In response to the refusal, a year-long bus boycott began.

Pastor Kenneth Glasgow helps Dothan City Jail inmate Spencer Trawick fill out a voter registration form inside the jail in June. (Connor Sheets | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) Thousands of felons across Alabama have registered to vote in recent weeks, according to Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, who is heading up a statewide effort to get felons to the voting booth.

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi has called on Nigerians to continue to pray for his ‘child’ President Muhammadu Buhari. According to him, all the current government needed from Nigerians now is prayer and constructive criticisms. He spoke in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Monday....

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Cincinnati Police have released a description of a van believed to be connected to A suspect was driving a Chevrolet Conversion van when he fired at an employee outside Lachey’s bar on Thanksgiving morning, according to Lt. Steve Saunders.

Opting to don a fresh clerical collar, rather than glue together the shards of the one that he cut up on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on 9 December, 2007, was symbolic, he said: “I think the lesson for Zimbabwe is the same. They just can’t try and stitch it up. Something more radical, something new, needs to happen.

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Traffic-related deaths are down compared to 2016, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. This year ALEA investigated six traffic fatalities during the holiday travel period. According to Capt. Tracy D. Nelson, there were 10 fewer traffic deaths compared to the same travel period in 2016.

There are many stories about the history of A Christmas Carol , and this delightful version is a guess at some of the elements that created this blockbuster of a tale. First, it stays true to the core of the Christmas message, that the giving to others out of love is transformative.

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Full Story > Construction work on Interstate 71's Lytle Tunnel will close down the following routes: Southbound I-71 at Ohio exit 2 through the tunnel will be shutdown Monday 10 p.m. through 5 a.m. Wednesday. On Tuesday, all traffic will be diverted onto I-471 and detoured westbound on I-275 to I-71 and I-75.

RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - The Richmond Police Department is searching for three people who robbed a 7-Eleven in Carytown on Thanksgiving. Police say the three men entered the store in the 3300 block of West Cary Street at 6:10 a.m. One of the suspects had a firearm. All three took money and items from the store.

Monday, 27 November 2017 - City preacher, Kathy Kiuna, of Jubilee Christian Centre (JCC), has been caught up in a husband snatching scandal. A woman claims that a faithful at JCC and a member of Kathy Kiuna’s Daughters of Zion movement wrecked her marriage after starting an affair with her husband.

PRATTVILLE, AL (WSFA) - Multiple shots were fired in Prattville Saturday night. According to Prattville Police Department Chief Mark Thompson, a couple of cars were hit and a building was struck by one round on Martin Luther King Drive in the area of North Highland Park.

Former Portsmouth Councilman Mark Whitaker was indicted for ID fraud, forgery, and using forged checks. He turned himself in this past April after a grand jury indicted him on 20 charges. Whitaker was the assistant pastor at New Bethel Baptist Church. PORTSMOUTH, Va.

*News of a preacher or minister or whatever having sex with a church member is not exactly unheard of. But it’s kinda rare to hear of of a 22-year-old pastor doing the deed. Not only that, his victim in this case, now 15, was only 14 when the sexual assault was committed.

By Chris Kenning. CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Nebraska law that prohibits picketing near funerals after it was challenged by a Kansas church known for anti-gay protests. Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church had filed suit against the 2006 Nebraska measure....

Former Portsmouth Councilman Mark Whitaker was indicted for ID fraud, forgery, and using forged checks. He turned himself in this past April after a grand jury indicted him on 20 charges. Whitaker was the assistant pastor at New Bethel Baptist Church.

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By Chris Kenning. CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Nebraska law that prohibits picketing near funerals after it was challenged by a Kansas church known for anti-gay protests. Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church had filed suit against the 2006 Nebraska measure....

HENRICO, VA (WWBT) - The Henrico Animal Protection Office confirmed the county's seven rabies case of the year after a fox chased a cat off a porch last week. The fox was located under a shed in the 200 block of North Holly Avenue on Nov. 23 and was acting "strangely." It was euthanized and then tested for rabies.