The Lexington church at the center of a former pastor sex crime investigation was previously involved in another scandal roughly 10 years ago, according to previous reporting from the Herald-Leader. In September 2014, Quest Community Church, which is today known as LexCity Church, announced the public ministry of its lead pastor had been discontinued after […]
In the Spotlight is a Fresno Bee series that digs into the high-profile local issues that readers care most about. Story idea? Email tips@fresnobee.com. Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama resigned on Tuesday, following a months-long investigation into an alleged affair he’d been having with the wife of a subordinate officer. The scandal, which broke only […]
Under fire for accusations of stolen valor, U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls is doubling down on defending his military record by blaming “the establishment” forces seeking to discredit him. Nehls, R-Richmond, has been under intense scrutiny over his display of a combat service badge that the Army revoked and removed from his service record last year. […]
A former first grade teacher shared her reaction to a judge’s decision to lighten her sentence in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal. Shani Robinson said she’s been living with a dark cloud looming over her since a grand jury indicted her and 35 other APS teachers and administrators in 2013. “I was facing 25 […]
Michael Phelps is the most decorated swimmer in Olympic history – winning a total of 28 medals across five Games – Getty Images/Nathan Howard Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, has suggested that the entire future of the Games is at stake following the World Anti-Doping Agency’s handling of Chinese swimmers […]
Michael Phelps said athletes can no longer place their faith in the World Anti-Doping Agency amid major questions over its handling of positive tests returned by 23 Chinese swimmers. Phelps and fellow United States Olympic swimming star Allison Schmitt gave evidence at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Tuesday evening, which considered whether […]
DENVER (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert faces voters in Colorado’s GOP primary election Tuesday after she fled a tough reelection race to run in a more Republican-leaning district, harried along the way by accusations of carpetbagging and still bruised by an embarrassing video. Boebert, who planted her MAGA flag in the U.S. House of […]
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has insisted it is “proper” to wait for the outcome of multiple investigations into allegations of betting on the General Election before taking action. Mr Sunak faced yet more questions on the scandal that has engulfed his party over the past week as he underwent a grilling on The Sun […]
In the space of two months, May followed by June, Gordonstoun, a boarding school set in 150 acres of stately grandeur in the far north of Scotland on the Moray Firth to the east of Inverness, found itself managing two seismic pieces of news: the first bringing profound pride, the second deep shame and regret. […]
(Bloomberg) — Rishi Sunak’s chances of avoiding a landslide defeat in the UK general election dwindled further as his governing Conservative Party struggled to contain revelations that several of the prime minister’s close aides placed bets on the date of the vote. Most Read from Bloomberg A report in the Sunday Times that a senior […]
Robert Morris, the founding pastor of a prominent Texas megachurch, has spent years telling congregants that about a “moral failure” from his past. The evangelical Christian didn’t go into detail, but he conceded that it involved a sexual sin that he committed as a young minister. This week, as NBC News reported, the story took […]
Will Lewis, the Washington Post publisher, advised Boris Johnson and senior officials at 10 Downing Street to “clean up” their phones in the midst of a Covid-era political scandal, according to claims by three people familiar with the operations inside No 10 at the time. The advice is alleged to have been given in December […]