A Peoria pastor has been charged with distributing harmful materials to a minor in Tazewell County. Michael S. Ritchason, 47, was arrested in October following an investigation by Pekin police.

Mica Miller's husband John Paul Miller was indicted this week on federal charges Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal writer at PEOPLE's crime desk. Her work also appears in The New York Times, The ...

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A Brooklyn pastor pleaded guilty Thursday to federal tax evasion charges after prosecutors said he stole millions of dollars from a church and affiliated daycare program and used the money to fund a ...

BERTIE COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A Bertie County pastor has been indicted on multiple child sex charges. Sheriff Tyrone Ruffin says Pastor James Watford was arrested today on charges dating back to 1995.

Warde Manuel has not been fired as Michigan's athletic director. In light of the Sherrone Moore firing and then subsequent arrest, rumors spread across social media on Thursday, Dec. 11, that Manuel ...

"The best way to put this is that I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man," Rev. Phillipa Phaneuf said Nicholas Rice is a Senior News Editor, Weekends for PEOPLE Magazine. He ...

OPELIKA, Ala. (WTVM) - Pastor Jeff Meyers of FBCO Church died Thursday night, according to a church announcement Friday. The church announced Meyers’ death in a letter to the congregation on Friday ...

A trans pastor who recently came out to her congregation in a spellbinding sermon has spoken out about the national attention she has received in the aftermath. “This is not what I was expecting to ...

The pastor of First Baptist Church of Opelika has died, according to a Facebook announcement from the church. “It is with deep sadness that we share the news that our beloved Pastor Jeff Meyers went ...

James David Stockton III, a pastor from Marion County who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House in 2024, was arrested on Nov. 29 by Signal Hill, California police on charges of contact minor with ...

A Methodist pastor in New York revealed last week plans to transition into a woman and said the 51-year-old now identifies as asexual. Rev. Phillip Phaneuf, of North Chili United Methodist Church in ...