Over 1,500 people from across the nation packed the Church of Scientology on Guadalupe Street to celebrate the building’s grand reopening on Saturday after almost seven years of renovations and delays, said the community liaison for the church in an…[Continue Reading...]
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Brownsville priest was arrested on several trafficking and child sex-related charges, authorities announced. Fernando Gonzalez Ortega, 52, was arrested on charges of sexual performance by a child, sexual assault of a child, continuous sexual abuse…[Continue Reading...]
The Hill Country around Wimberley – the picturesque village an hour southwest of Austin – is home to several notable musicians, including Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, and Willie Nelson. It’s also, increasingly, a hotbed for white supremacist activity. A new…[Continue Reading...]
Long before she was known as “Mother God” to some and a cult leader to others, her family knew her as Amy Carlson. And it turns out that the controversial spiritual figure had Dallas roots. Carlson’s life and bizarre death…[Continue Reading...]
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas returned an indictment yesterday charging a Texas couple for operating an illegal pyramid scheme that defrauded thousands of participants of more than $10 million. According to court documents, LaShonda Moore,…[Continue Reading...]
Now a subject of multiple true-crime works, Warren Jeffs was once a cult leader of FLDS and admired by many followers. This continued until recently when the truths of his ghastly polygamy first surfaced. As the Churh’s head, he had…[Continue Reading...]
The woman known as 'baby Holly', whose parents were murdered in 1981 but went unidentified for forty years, has broken her silence, revealing she believed they were murdered trying to leave a religious cult. Holly Miller, 42, only discovered in…[Continue Reading...]
Growing up a gay, Mormon, Latino in south Texas was not easy. While I was surrounded by many Latine people, I knew the world at large did not see us as the loving and diverse community that we are. On…[Continue Reading...]
Churches in Arlington and Kennedale helped lead the way last week as a national Christian denomination came out flatly against using God to grab government control. In one of the boldest declarations yet by a mainline Protestant church, the Indiana-based…[Continue Reading...]
The Prosper DJ and his wife who orchestrated a “blessing loom” pyramid scheme that targeted the Black community have been ordered to pay $10.76 million and will be banned from operating multilevel marketing operations. The Texas attorney general’s office said…[Continue Reading...]
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