A fire has ripped through a church in Old Town San Diego, causing at least $500,000 in property damage. City News Service reports that the blaze broke out Monday morning at Old Town Community Church. San Diego Fire-Rescue crews extinguished …
A West Texas man has been sentenced to more than 37 years in prison for torching a church in a hate crimes case. A federal judge in Midland on Wednesday sentenced Steven Scott Cantrell of Crane. Cantrell in September pleaded …
Flames whipped by strong winds have destroyed a central Indiana church. About 30 members of the Yountsville Community Church had just begun services Sunday morning when someone noticed smoke, and they evacuated the building. All escaped without injury. Crawfordsville Fire …
The pastor of the United Methodist Church in Castle Rock, Wash., says it’s a miracle her church survived an attempted arson in which fires were set in six places in the building. Fires were started early Sunday on artificial flowers, …
Police say an out-of-control car slammed into the front of an empty western Pennsylvania church but no one was inside at the time. Officials say the driver lost control and struck a utility pole and tree before going airborne and …
A predominantly Latino church filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against Lynn city officials Thursday, saying authorities have been using local ordinances to illegally prevent it from worshipping in its vacant church over the past two years in violation of federal …
Investigators on Friday were looking for what caused a fire that destroyed a century-old church in Martensdale as firefighters watched for hot spots. The fire at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church broke out Thursday night. Authorities said they received a call …
Thieves have stolen a cement statue of St. Francis from an Episcopal church in Edmond, Oklahoma. Oklahoma City television station KFOR reports that the theft was reported last week. The statue was stolen from a garden on the grounds of …
A string of four fires labeled arson, including a blaze that destroyed a historic building in a northeast Ohio village, remains unsolved one year later despite a $5,000 reward. Investigators still are not releasing much information about the fires. One …
Roman Catholic priest who acknowledged siphoning $650,000 from the bank accounts of his Las Vegas parish is trying to recover from a compulsive gambling addiction, his lawyer said. Monsignor Kevin McAuliffe said he took the money over eight years from …