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  • Street Evangelist Wins Right to Spread the Gospel

    By Doug Huntington

    A street evangelist in Goldsboro, N.C., about 200 miles east of Charlotte, recently won a lawsuit solidifying his right to spread the gospel to anyone he chooses while he is in public.

    Mar 28, 2007 | Comments 0
  • U.S. Judge Blocks Law Criminalizing Web Porn that Reaches Kids

    By Maryclaire Dale

    Software filters work much better than a 1998 federal law designed to keep pornography away from children on the Internet, a federal judge ruled Thursday in striking down the measure on free-speech grounds.

    Mar 22, 2007 | Comments 0
  • Prosecutor Will Not Seek Death Penalty for Wife of Slain Minister

    By The Associated Press

    The prosecutor in the case against a woman charged in the fatal shooting of her preacher husband will not seek the death penalty.

    Mar 15, 2007 | Comments 0
  • 3 Charged for Ala. Church Arsons Seek Youthful Status

    By The Associated Press

    Three former college students who pleaded guilty to federal charges in a string of rural church arsons will ask a judge to treat them as youthful offenders as they answer state charges.

    Mar 14, 2007 | Comments 0
  • Wife of Slain Preacher Wants Evidence Excluded

    By Woody Baird

    Lawyers for a small-town minister's wife argued Thursday that police illegally searched her family's residence after her husband was found shot to death on a bedroom floor.

    Feb 23, 2007 | Comments 0
  • Ga. Parents Convicted for Child's Death

    By Daniel Yee

    A suburban Atlanta couple was convicted of murder Friday in the beating death of their 8-year-old son, a case that prompted authorities to raid the parents' church because it supports corporal punishment.

    Feb 16, 2007 | Comments 0
  • Ex-AG's Charges Against Abortion Doc Dismissed

    By The Associated Press

    Former Attorney General Phill Kline’s attempt to prosecute the state’s most visible abortion provider is now officially over.

    Feb 15, 2007 | Comments 0
  • Couple Accused of Child Beating Death Declines to Testify

    By The Associated Press

    A couple accused in the beating death of their 8-year-old declined to testify in their own defense Tuesday, after a judge strongly advised them not to.

    Feb 14, 2007 | Comments 0
  • Man Claims Pat Robertson Threatened Him

    By The Associated Press

    A Texas bodybuilder suing Pat Robertson contends the religious broadcaster walked into federal court for a legal proceeding and told him: "I am going to kill you and your family."

    Feb 10, 2007 | Comments 0
  • Remnant Church Members Say Son Claimed to Be Devil's Soldier

    By The Associated Press

    Josef Smith's father told police his 8-year-old son frequently needed discipline because the child carved death threats on the walls that kept the family awake at night and claimed he was a foot-soldier for the devil.

    Feb 10, 2007 | Comments 0
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