A Plano megachurch minister was taken into custody Thursday after authorities say he drove to Bryan, Texas, to have sex with a person he thought to be a 13-year-old.
Joe Barron, a minister at Prestonwood Baptist Church, is accused of online solicitation of a minor.
According to Bryan police, Mr. Barron had chatting for about two weeks with the person that he thought to be a juvenile. “The online conversations were sexually explicit in nature,” the release said.
On Tuesday, Mr. Barron asked if the girl could meet him in person, police said. Two days later, he made the three-hour drive to Bryan to meet the girl.
And as my blogging buddy Barry stated on his blog, Prestonwood has already removed him from their website but the Google cache tells you his job title was Minister of Married Adult III.
For those of you unfamiliar with the church, it is HUGE. Check out the Wikipedia entry on it. Speaking of which, I’m a little surprised Wikipedia isn’t updated with this latest news.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabian leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until their customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices.
Strong arm personal injury lawyer Brian Loncar’s car (a Bentley btw) was hit by a fire truck.
Prominent attorney Brian Loncar was injured Thursday night when a fire engine collided with his Bentley in the Oak Lawn area, Dallas police said.
Mr. Loncar, 47, was transported to Parkland Memorial Hospital. His condition was not immediately available.
The accident happened shortly before 7 p.m. as a fire truck responding to an alarm headed northbound on Lemmon Avenue, police said.
With its lights and sirens on, the fire engine went through a red light at the intersection of Lomo Alto Drive and collided with the driver’s side of Mr. Loncar’s 2008 Bentley, which was heading west.
The force of the accident pushed his car through the intersection, spinning off the road and into a third vehicle carrying a woman and three children.
Firefighters and those in the third vehicle suffered minor injuries, but no one was transported to the hospital, police said.
Dallas police Lt. Scott Bratcher said that the accident remains under investigation. But he said the accident will likely be ruled as Mr. Loncar’s fault because he “failed to yield right of way to an emergency vehicle.”
Mr. Loncar is a well-known attorney whose Web site advises people to call in the “Strong Arm” when a person has been injured “due to the negligence or misconduct of another person.”
You’ve heard of Three Coins in a Fountain, right? How about 150,000 pennies in a locker?
That’s what Josh Fogg found in his locker when he came to work in the Cincinnati Reds clubhouse Wednesday. There were 60 boxes of pennies, $25 worth to a box, stacked in his locker — top to bottom like cereal boxes in Kroger’s.
Fogg immediately looked at Ken Griffey Jr. and said, “That’s good, Griff. That’s funny. Kick me while I’m down.”
Griffey had told Fogg he was going to pay off the $1,500 he owed him in pennies, but Fogg didn’t believe it.
“I’m a man of my word,” said Griffey. “And when you owe a man $1,500, you pay him. And I’d like to thank the lovely people at National City Bank for helping me with this joke. There isn’t a whole lot you can do with pennies. Just think, each box weighs 16 pounds, so the man has 60 bowling balls in his locker.”
Fogg was mystified and mesmerized and finally said, “I’m going to take them out to the bullpen and count them. I have a lot of time on my hands out there. I’m sure these were delivered by Brinks truck and Griffey had his paycheck in there, too.”
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius won his appeal Friday and can compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the 21-year-old South African is eligible to race against able-bodied athletes, overturning a ban imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
CAS said the unanimous ruling goes into effect immediately.
Pistorius still must reach a qualifying time to run in the individual 400 meters at the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Games. However, he can be picked for the South African relay squad without qualifying.
Pistorius appealed to CAS, world sport’s highest tribunal, to overturn a Jan. 14 ruling by the IAAF that banned him from competing. The IAAF said his carbon fiber blades give him a mechanical advantage.
The season finale is not next week but the week after. Are they trying to ween us off slowly so we can adjust to the summer? Summer isn’t even here and I’m ready for it to be over. Give me my Lost and football.
I noticed two rabbit foots in this episode. Perhaps a tip of the hat to Alice in Wonderland? I dunno.
Jesus Christ is not a weapon. I need that on a t-shirt.
Lost has been on for four years, so I have to remind myself that the events on the island lasts only a hundred and something days. Remember, it was the Oceanic spokeswoman at the press conference that stated that on day 108 they made it to the inhabited island of Sunda. Actually, she said eight of them survived the crash and only six of them made it to the island. I wonder who are the other two the Oceanic 6 are claiming survived the crash?
Everytime I see Cheech I can’t help but chuckle. Also, everytime I see him I wonder what Chong is doing.
I think Ben knows he can’t be killed, that the island won’t let him die, and that’s why he’s able to walk right up to the Orchid to those soldier dudes. That scene was almost Jedi like.
WifeGeeding and I think that Sun’s father has a glass eye.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if her father has a connection to Ben or Widmore. Also, I don’t think the Oceanic settlement would be enough for Jin to buy a controlling interest in her father’s company. Perhaps she’s also getting financial support from Ben or Widmore.
I have a hunch that Jin isn’t dead.
It’s cool that Jack and Sawyer care enough for Hurley to want to rescue him from Locke and Ben.
Lost has the saddest piano music in the history of ever. I have to admit the show has a terrific musical score.
How sad it must have been for Kate and Sayid as the only two of the Oceanic 6 to not have loved ones visit them as they came off the airplane.
I’ve always wondered from a business and legal perspective about what happens when a person is presumed dead and life insurance money is distributed, but then the person who is declared dead comes back alive. Lost may not be the best example, but the Tom Hanks character in Castaway fits the bill. When he’s found alive, does his beneficiaries get to keep the life insurance money, or do they have to give all or a portion back? What if he had student loans and they were forgiven because of his death? Would the student loan folks open the account back up and seek repayment? Or better yet, consider Thurston Howell of Gilligan’s Island. If his estate was distributed and he comes back alive, is he able to recoup his entire estate? Someone could have bought one of his assets at an estate sale, would that purchaser get to keep that asset? Oooops, I appear to be babbling.
We are going to find out who is in the coffin in the next episode, and my money is still on Michael.
Random thought about the device on Keamy’s arm, the leader of the military team. I bet it’s somehow connected to the explosives on the ship. If he dies (no pulse) then the ship blows up. This would make for great leverage negotiating with Locke, Jack, or Sawyer.
I heard an interesting theory that Matthew Abbodon is Walt all grown up. It’s an entertaining theory, but i don’t think it’s true. In case you are wondering, Abbodon is the biblical Angel of the Abyss in the book of Revelation, and the name is Greek for “destruction.” All of this reminds me of a Bible prof I had in college. He once stated that if any of us were preaching and he heard us refer to the book of Revelation as the “Revelations” he would stand up and correct us that that book does not have an “s”. Everyone has their pet peeves I guess. My friend Jimi can’t stand wooden spoons. Ooops, I’m rambling again. I guess it’s because it’s Friday and I don’t really want to work, especially since I have less than two weeks at this place. It’s so tempting to just quit and walk out, but good parenting is preventing me to do so. Beside, my project workload would just have to be dumped on some friends and that would just be wrong. Oh, rambling.
Some of psychology’s most interesting artifacts reflect not only the zeitgeist of the times but the personalities of the psychologists behind them. One such example is the “Marital Rating Scale—Wife’s Chart,” a test developed in the late 1930s by George W. Crane, MD, PhD, (1901–95) of Northwestern University, who ran a counseling practice, wrote a syndicated national newspaper column called “The Worry Clinic” and started his own matchmaking service.
The test was designed to give couples feedback on their marriages. Either husbands or wives could take the test, which rated wives in a variety of areas.
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The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) announces the finalists for the 2008 Christian Book Awards. Presented annually to the finest in Christian publishing since 1978, the Christian Book Awards honor titles in six categories: Bibles, Bible Reference & Study, Christian Life, Fiction, Children & Youth, and Inspiration & Gift.
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I received several emails over the past couple days asking what do I actually do for a living, so I decided to create a curriculum vitae page - just click on the CV tab above. It was hastily put together from a current and several old resumes and dates back to my college years.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Doctors say a 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was carrying her embryonic twin.
Doctors at Larissa General Hospital who examined the girl found a growth, which was surgically removed.
Hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said Thursday “they could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn’t suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo.”
The embryo was six centimeters (more than two inches) long.
Hospital pediatrics chief Andreas Markou says the foetus had a head, hair and eyes, but lacked a brain.
Hospital officials say the girl’s family doesn’t want to be identified.
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