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Senior pastor of First United Methodist Church. In office. 1980–1987. Walker Railey (born June 25, 1947) is an American former religious minister who was the senior pastor of the Dallas -based First United Methodist Church. He was tried for the attempted murder of his wife; although acquitted in criminal court, a civil court awarded an $18 ...
Drug use and addiction also increased significantly following the invention of the hypodermic syringe in 1853, with overdose being a leading cause of death among intravenous drug users. Efforts to prohibit various drugs began to be enacted in the early 20th century, though the effectiveness of such policies is debated. Deaths from drug ...
Lance Michael Kerwin [1] (November 6, 1960 – January 24, 2023) was an American actor, known primarily for roles in television and film during his childhood and teen years in the 1970s. He played lead roles in the TV series James at 15 [2] as well as the TV films The Loneliest Runner and Salem's Lot .
David Ray Wilkerson (May 19, 1931 – April 27, 2011 [1]) was an American Christian evangelist, best known for his book The Cross and the Switchblade. He was the founder of the addiction recovery program Teen Challenge, and founding pastor of the interdenominational Times Square Church in New York City . Wilkerson emphasized such Christian ...
2, including Jay Bakker. Tamara Faye Messner (née LaValley, formerly Bakker / ˈbeɪkər /; March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her husband Jim Bakker in 1974. [1] They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming in the early 1960s; Messner ...
About 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year, including both American citizens and non-citizens who were in the country at the time they died, the CDC estimated. That’s down 3% ...
A few weeks after Bias's death, committees in the United States House of Representatives began writing anti-drug legislation. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was signed by President Ronald Reagan on October 27, 1986. The law provides a mandatory minimum prison term of 20 years and a maximum life sentence, along with a fine of up to $2 million ...
May 26, 2024 at 5:58 PM. A 12 year-old girl who died Saturday night after being found unconscious in a Fort Lee home had ingested a "fatal dose of narcotics," the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office ...