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A Louisiana man who admitted to burning down three predominantly African American churches has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay the churches $2.6 million.

More than three weeks after his disappearance, officials found the keys of missing college student Shane Montgomery.

Carolyn Moxley Gillis, 77, had gone on an on-shore excursion when a rear tire blew out and their van flipped multiple times, Belize local officials said.

Carolyn Moxley Gillis, 77, had gone on an on-shore excursion when a rear tire blew out and their van flipped multiple times, Belize local officials said.

Thunderstorms moved through North Texas Tuesday evening, bringing strong wind gusts, sheets of rain and thousands of lightning strikes.

When the longtime pastor who founded a black church in Fort Worth died in August, members searched for a new leader and found one notable for more than just his sermons.

North Dallas megachurch Watermark has purchased an abandoned South Dallas Middle School for a ministry expansion. Some neighbors said Wednesday they felt ignored with a lack of information from Watermark.

Ten people were hospitalized in Dallas Wednesday night for what officials say are symptoms consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning.

Former President Jimmy Carter was recovering Tuesday following surgery to relieve pressure on his brain from bleeding linked to recent falls. A statement from his spokeswoman said there were no complications from the procedure, performed at Emory University Hospital for a subdural hematoma, blood trapped on the brain’s surface.

The church is celebrating 135 years of ministry in Collin County since it began its journey in 1884.

A North Texas community is grieving the loss of not one, but four students.

The pastor from First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs is running for the Texas Senate. He says mass shootings around the country, after the one at his own parish, motivated him to seek office.

The pastor from First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs is running for the Texas Senate. He says mass shootings around the country, after the one at his own parish, motivated him to seek office.

A Fort Worth neighborhood stepped up after a family’s bin of socks to be donated to the homeless was stolen.

Former President Jimmy Carter taught a Bible lesson on life after death Sunday less than two weeks after breaking his pelvis in a fall. Using a walker, the 95-year-old Democrat slowly entered the crowded sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church in the southwest Georgia town of Plains. “Morning, everybody,” he said cheerfully.

Congressman and civil rights champion Elijah Cummings was remembered as “a man of noble and good heart” by former President Barack Obama during Cummings’ funeral Friday, at a church filled with dignitaries and ordinary people from Baltimore. Remarking on the title “honorable” given to those in public life, Obama said Cummings was honorable before he was elected, outside of the...

A third person has been arrested and accused of murder in the death of a Bowie High School student who was shot and killed when he tried to protect a friend and stop a fight.

Former President Barack Obama delivered a eulogy at the funeral for Rep. Elijah Cummings on Friday, commemorating the late congressman’s perseverance through Washington as the son of sharecroppers.

Two men have been arrested, accused of being part of a gang and fatally shooting a Bowie High School student last week when he tried to protect a friend and stop a fight.