Methodist jury convicts lesbian minister
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A jury made up of United Methodist Church clergy convicted a lesbian minister Thursday of violating church law by openly living with her partner in a committed relationship.
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A jury has reached a verdict in the rape-accomplice trial of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.
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RICHMOND, Texas - A minister convicted of biting a police officer during a traffic stop avoided two years in prison after a judge gave him 10 years of probation and ordered him to enroll in an anger management program.    After a Fort Bend County jury found the Rev...
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A Presbyterian minister was found guilty of violating church law for officiating the weddings of two lesbian couples, the minister's defense team said Friday.
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Utah court finds polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs guilty of forcing 14-year-old girl to marrying cousin.
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A leading member of the LVF is found guilty of the murder of Portadown grandmother Elizabeth O'Neill.
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A military jury found a Navy chaplain guilty Wednesday of disobeying an order by appearing in uniform at a White House protest.
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A judge on Wednesday found a bus driver guilty of eight slayings, giving prosecutors their second conviction in the decade-long series of murders of women in this border city.
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A Methodist minister who was defrocked for declaring that she's a lesbian living with her partner is taking her case to a church appeals court.
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The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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A Swedish Pentecostal minister who was sentenced to a month in jail last year for preaching against homosexuality appealed the verdict yesterday.
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A preacher was convicted Monday of stealing nearly $9 million from hundreds of small black churches across the country that were promised hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for small investments.
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A US jury convicts an ex-Ku Klux Klan member over the deaths of two black teenagers in 1964.
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A British couple who spent 15 months in jail for manslaughter in the death of their 3-year-old foster son have been acquitted in a retrial.  A jury deliberated for seven hours before finding Ian and Angela Gay not guilty Friday.
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A federal jury on Thursday convicted reputed Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi.
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A United Methodist minister who has changed gender since being chosen to lead a congregation in Baltimore will be reappointed there, church officials announced
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 16--RALEIGH -- A woman pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling money from a Raleigh church and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation.