Charges Dismissed Against Ex-Ministers
- Share via
Trespassing and assault charges against two defrocked Lutheran pastors have been dismissed by a municipal court in Columbus, Ohio, for lack of evidence and mistakes about details of the case in a police affidavit.
The two, D. Douglas Roth and Daniel Solberg, removed from the ministry by the Lutheran Church in America for controversial tactics in protesting economic conditions in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area, had been arrested after staging a demonstration at the church’s convention in Columbus last May.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
Greenline Housing Foundation has become something of a “first aid kit” for Eaton fire survivors, offering financial services that range from temporary housing grants to land banking that have helped some families fund their paths back home.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
