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‘Nobody saved us’: Man describes childhood in abusive ‘cult’
SPINDALE, N.C. (AP) — Jamey Anderson vividly recalls being a skinny kid trembling on the floor of a dank, windowless storage room, waiting in terror for the next adult to open the door. He was bruised...
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Family of ex-church member denies claims of childhood abuse
SPINDALE, North Carolina (AP) — Family members of a man who broke with a controversial church based in rural North Carolina have released a video disputing that he was physically and emotionally abused...
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Brazilian prosecutors sue to shut church over forced labor
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian labor prosecutors have filed suit to shut down a church and school with ties to the U.S.-based Word of Faith Fellowship, saying the church and its leaders “reduced people to...
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AP Exclusive: NC county illegally removed kids from homes
MURPHY, N.C. (AP) — When Brian Hogan got a call that his wife had suffered a massive heart attack, he knew he had to get to the hospital fast. So Hogan asked his neighbor to take care of his...
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AP Exclusive: NC county illegally removed kids from homes
MURPHY, N.C. (AP) — When Brian Hogan got a call that his wife had suffered a massive heart attack, he knew he had to get to the hospital fast. So Hogan asked his neighbor to take care of his...
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N Carolina to take over child welfare office after AP story
North Carolina officials will take over a county child welfare agency that illegally removed potentially hundreds of kids from their homes. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services...
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State to take over child welfare office after AP story
North Carolina officials said Friday they will take over a county child welfare agency that illegally removed children — potentially hundreds of them — from their homes. The North Carolina Department...
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2 members of secretive sect charged in unemployment scheme
Two members of a secretive evangelical church in North Carolina were charged in an unemployment benefits scheme that ex-congregants said was part of a plan to keep money flowing into the church despite...
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Fraud charges filed against 2 members of secretive sect
A father and son who belong to a secretive evangelical church in North Carolina are facing criminal charges in an unemployment benefits scheme that former congregants have said was part of a plan to...
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2 members of secretive NC sect charged with fraud conspiracy
Two members of a secretive evangelical church in North Carolina were charged Thursday with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in an alleged unemployment benefits scheme that former congregants have said...
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Church says candidate trespassed, but he says he was invited
A leader of a secretive evangelical congregation has persuaded a magistrate to issue trespassing charges against a North Carolina state Senate candidate who brought supporters and a TV crew along to a...
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Head of secretive North Carolina sect named in fraud scam
The leader of a secretive church in North Carolina has been named in federal court records as someone who “promoted” an unemployment fraud scheme involving businesses owned by members of her...
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Devices implanted to treat pain worsen the suffering for many
Medical device companies and doctors have touted spinal-cord stimulators as remedies for millions of people in pain. But the stimulators are more dangerous than patients know: Many report being shocked...
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Insulin pumps, widely used, also have the most problems in FDA’s database
Medical device manufacturers and experts say insulin pumps are safe. But an AP investigation found that the pumps and their components are responsible for the highest number of malfunction, injury and...
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Minister at secretive N Carolina church sentenced for fraud
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A minister at a secretive church in North Carolina has been sentenced to 34 months in prison and ordered to pay $466,960 in restitution for his role in an unemployment fraud...
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AP: Catholic boards hailed as fix for sex abuse often fail
Facing thousands of cases of clergy sex abuse, U.S. Catholic leaders addressed their greatest crisis in the modern era with a promised reform: Mandatory review boards. These independent panels with lay...
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Out of medication, US woman finally boards flight from Peru
A 33-year-old American woman running out of her life-saving medication to treat her auto-immune disease finally boarded a flight home Wednesday after being stuck in Peru for about 10 days, but hundreds...
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Ex-congregant charged with breaking into minister’s home
UNDATED (AP) — A secretive evangelical church in North Carolina says hysteria over the coronavirus may have motivated a former member with a gun to break into the home of one of the sect’s top...
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Homes for disabled hit hard by COVID, faced past violations
Neil Sullivan was angry, frustrated and crushed with guilt. His brother Joe had been rushed from his home for the developmentally disabled by ambulance to the emergency room, with a possible case of...
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Thousands sick from COVID-19 in homes for the disabled
Neil Sullivan was angry, frustrated and crushed with guilt. His brother Joe had been rushed by ambulance from his home for the developmentally disabled to the emergency room with a possible case of the...
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