Michigan

Prosecutors charged three men Sunday in relation to the robbery and carjacking of minister and Grammy Award-winning singer the Rev. Marvin Winans.

The suspects were identified as Montoya Givens, Christopher Moorehead, both 20, and Brian K. Young, 18, according to The Associated Press.

While Givens and Moorehead are residents of Detroit, Young is from Macomb County's Clinton Township. The three, who appeared in Detroit's 36th District Court Sunday, were charged with carjacking, unarmed robbery and conspiracy. more >>

Prominent Detroit Minister and Grammy Award-winning singer the Rev. Marvin Winans has expressed disappointment after being beaten and robbed by several young men this week, saying young people, if not raised right, will have no sense of honor and respect.

Winans, pastor of Perfecting Church and the minister who delivered Whitney Houston's eulogy in February, was assaulted around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when he pulled into a CITGO gas station to refuel his SUV. The minister, whose siblings include BeBe and CeCe Winans, told police he noticed 10 young men in the station as he entered.

"I was putting my gas in the tank and turned around to face them," the minister reportedly said Thursday, according to the Root DC. He was soon engaged in casual conversation with three or four young men and became distracted when one of them said his gas was overflowing. more >>

Mitt Romney was born and raised in Michigan, but he won the primary in the state where his father was a three-term governor by a thin margin Tuesday night with Rick Santorum trailing by about three percent of the votes.

With 99.9 percent of precincts reporting in Michigan, Romney had 42.1 percent of the votes while Santorum had 37.9 percent. Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich stood at 11.6 percent and 6.5 percent, respectively.

The win came as a relief to the former Massachusetts governor, as polls showed Romney and the former Pennsylvania senator neck and neck in the primary race. The victory in Michigan, as well as in Arizona where he was expected to win with a considerable ease, helped Romney gain momentum ahead of the next week's Super Tuesday when 10 states will hold primaries for more than 420 delegates. more >>

When Ed Dobson was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, he thought his life was over.

Given only two to five more years to live, the former megachurch pastor, who fully understood the disease's degenerative symptoms, began to slowly give up on his life, which was once busy and populated, opting instead to isolate himself in bed. That is, until one day God spoke to him in a high pitched New York accent.

More specifically, God used his friend Billy, the actual one with the accent, to speak to him and wake him up from his depression. more >>

A coalition of social conservative advocacy groups is on a six-day bus tour through Michigan to build support for presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

"As the campaign was unfolding, we realized that, while the presidential candidates were all pro-life, Rick Santorum had the distinction of being a proven leader who is very courageous," Marilyn Musgrave, former Colorado congresswoman and vice president of Susan B. Anthony List, told CP.

The SBA List board met earlier in the week and voted unanimously to support Santorum. more >>

With a growing number of authors and theologians releasing books about doomsday and rapture predictions, one title that stands out is by the Rev. Gerald Haug, who insists the world is not ending any time soon and that religious leaders teaching otherwise are doing damage to the church. 

Haug's book, Ortho-Millennialism: Bringing Order to End-Time Chaos, focuses on analyzing the books of the Bible that might offer clues on the timing of the Rapture, when followers of Jesus will be caught up to meet him in the air – and the reverend says his work dispels all speculation and proves with absolute certainty that Jesus will not be returning to Earth for at least another 100 years.

Haug, a member of the Assemblies of God convention, the largest collection of Pentecostal denominations with some 62 million members worldwide, shared in an interview with The Christian Post that he has spoken about his book to thousands at his assembly and has convinced them of the validity of his work. more >>