March 15, 2024 Teacher facing charges told teen she did ‘sexual activities with other students,’ cops say A teacher has been behind bars for more than a week, accused of having sex with a student in her car, in the parking lot of his grandmother’s apartment complex.
January 25, 2024 Teacher, church volunteer faces 14 criminal charges ‘related to sex abuse of minors’ A man in charge of children is accused of “14 offenses related to sex abuse of minors,” and what investigators say they discovered is disturbing.
January 24, 2024 Pastor has man arrested for sleeping at church (but not during sermon), police say A call about a man trespassing at a church led to a patrolman finding and arresting a man who was asleep.
October 24, 2023 Gang member killed preacher’s son outside church, then attacked a woman and his mother, sheriff says A gang member is charged with shooting a preacher’s son to death outside his father’s church.
October 13, 2023 Atlanta officer fired for death of church deacon, 62, tasered during dispute over traffic ticket The Atlanta Police Department has fired one of its officers, months after a deadly taser incident on a driver who’d been involved in a crash.
September 15, 2023 Birmingham church hosts 60th anniversary commemoration of deadly 1963 bombing Friday marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous attacks during the Civil Rights Movement: the deadly bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
February 15, 2022 ‘Operation Wanderlust’ ends with 2 girls safe, men arrested for sex trafficking One teenage victim of human trafficking is safe, and a potential victim has also been rescued, after a three-month undercover investigation fighting the online solicitation of minors.
May 2, 2019 Thinking about religion, belief and recent violence Vacation time is up. We’re into May and I haven’t written a “real blog post” for you in a month and a half, since…
March 16, 2015 Getting settled in Bristol I’ve been in Bristol for about ten days and work for a week, so it’s time for an update. This blog wasn’t intended to…