PARKERSBURG — Salvation Army of Parkersburg’s laundry room and monitor’s office are deemed a complete loss following a burst pipe due to changing temperatures Wednesday night. The organization’s building on Fifth Street was experiencing a trickle leak from their pipes, according ...
BRYAN, Ohio (AP) — For more than a year, a pastor who opened his church around the clock to shelter and give hope to homeless people has been at odds with an Ohio city over the building housing his ministry. On Tuesday, a city judge found Pastor Chris Avell guilty of violating zoning ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she made a direct appeal to him during a prayer service marking his inauguration to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrant workers who are in the United States ...
Flames were already attacking the campus of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center when the cantor, Ruth Berman Harris, and three companions rushed in to rescue its sacred Torah scrolls. Physically, that's now all that is left of the 80-year-old synagogue, destroyed by wildfires that also ...
PARKERSBURG — First Lutheran Church at 19th and Plum streets will close this year’s Christmas season with the traditional service of celebration of Epiphany at 7 p.m. Monday, according to the Rev. Ian B. Reid, senior pastor. Assisting with the service will be Pastor Thomas Darr, Christ ...
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — It never got old. No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church, there was always some wisdom to be gleaned from the measured, Bible-inspired words of Jimmy Carter. This was another side of the 39th president, a ...
