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			<title><![CDATA['Sinister minister' convicted of murder in wife's death]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-01-23 13:10:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An ex-pastor dubbed the "sinister minister" by prosecutors who say he murdered both of his wives was convicted of one killing and faces a second trial in March in connection with the second woman's death.

A jury in Stroudsburg, Pa., took about 90 minutes...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Leontine T.C. Kelly dies at 92; first black woman bishop in a major Christian denomination]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-07-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Leontine T.C. Kelly, a daughter and wife of ministers who followed her own calling and became the first black woman bishop in a major Christian denomination when the United Methodist Church elevated her to the position in 1984, has died. She was 92....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[PASSINGS: Bill Clements, Arthur Goldreich, John N. Doggett, Sergei Bagapsh, Thomas Graham Duffy]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-05-30 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Bill Clements

First GOP Texas governor since Reconstruction

Bill Clements, 94, a two-term Texas governor who in 1979 became the first Republican elected governor in the state since Reconstruction, died Sunday at a Dallas-area hospital, Lt. Gov. David...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Oral Roberts dies at 91; televangelist was pioneering preacher of the 'prosperity gospel']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-12-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Oral Roberts, a dirt-poor Oklahoma farm boy who popularized the idea of a "prosperity gospel" while becoming one of the world's most recognizable televangelists, died Tuesday. He was 91.

Roberts, founder of the university in Tulsa, Okla., that is named...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Music review: Bach's 'St. John Passion'  by Musica Angelica*]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-03-28 16:32:57</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Oral Roberts, a dirt-poor Oklahoma farm boy who popularized the idea of a "prosperity gospel" while becoming one of the world's most recognizable televangelists, died Tuesday. He was 91.

Roberts, founder of the university in Tulsa, Okla., that is named...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[This L.A. enclave near the Arroyo Seco is close-knit]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2008-08-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Though its history stretches back more than a century, in recent decades the northeast L.A. neighborhood of Hermon had all but lost its identity, overshadowed by nearby South Pasadena and Highland Park. Now, this tiny, peaceful community on the edge of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Melvin E. Wheatley dies at 93; Methodist bishop caused a stir by appointing gay pastor]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-03-15 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Bishop Melvin E. Wheatley, who risked censure in the United Methodist Church for appointing his denomination's first openly gay pastor in 1982, died March 1 in Mission Viejo after a lengthy illness, a church spokesman said. He was 93.

Wheatley was...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[King's words resonate at L.A. church]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2008-04-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. comes as a poignant reminder of the day the civil rights leader stood in the pulpit at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles and preached a Sunday morning sermon about...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[State's first colleges, by definition]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2006-11-29 20:44:30</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Higher education in the state got its start in the Gold Rush era, when Jesuits and Methodists both established institutions in the Northern California town of Santa Clara.

And 155 years later, it's still unclear which group should be deemed the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Rev. John Moore Miller Jr., 95]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-21 07:48:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Rev. John Moore Miller Jr., 95, of Clio, formerly of Alpena, passed away Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Clio.

The Rev. Miller was born Aug. 1, 1917, in Hookstown, Pa.

He married Bertha Ellen Kintner and she preceded him in death in 1993.

He was a...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Community notes Monday, May 20, 2013]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-20 11:47:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Births

A son, Alexander James Goldsmith, was born to Jayson and Sara Goldsmith of Boyne City at 4:41 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, 2013, at McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey. Alexander weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long at birth. His...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Community calendar - May 20 to 24]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-19 14:29:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Monday, May 20 

Long Meadows Rotary meets at Nick&rsquo;s Airport Inn, 6:15 p.m. 

Clear Spring Lions Club meets at Clear Spring American Legion, 6:30 p.m. 

West Hagerstown Lions Club meets at Washington Square United Methodist Church, 538 Washington...]]></description>
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