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Georgia Pastor arrested for allegedly holding eight people with disabilities captive in basement

Curtis Bankston,55, and his wife Sophia,55, were arrested earlier this week after police discovered eight individuals, aged between 25 and 65, were found in the ....

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Pandemic spikes need for Christmas toy donations, leaving group pleading for donations

Operation Cover Chicago has received twice as many requests for toys this Christmas and hopes to give 20,000 Chicago-area children toys this year. ....

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COVID Has Increased Need for Christmas Toy Donations, Leaving Group Pleading For Donations

This Christmas, requests for gifts have more than doubled than previous years because of unemployment and other financial hardships stemming from the pandemic. ....

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Beloved homeless ComFest dancer who died eulogized at service


“This articulate man … this model, this dancer, this singer,” Pierce practically roared, “died outside, homeless, on a snowy, frigid day, 80 years old. A senior citizen. He could have been your father. He could have been mine.”
How, Pierce demanded, does that happen?
And the couple of dozen people gathered Thursday night in the sanctuary of Miracle Cathedral on the Near East Side to say goodbye to their friend all just shook their heads and prayed for answers.
They were there to remember Spriggs, at man who for decades brought joy to so many in Columbus, whether he was singing during worship inside local churches, engaging in fellowship with others at a free community meal, or stealing the limelight every summer at ComFest in the Short North. ....

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