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GEORGETOWN, Ky. (ABP) — One year after being placed on probation by its accrediting association, Georgetown College has been “given a clean bill of health,” according to college president Bill Crouch. Georgetown was placed on probation in December 2004 by…

KOKOMO, Texas (ABP) — Wildfires sweeping across North Texas burned down Kokomo Baptist Church Dec. 31. While members of the church were preventing wildfires from destroying homes in their community, a fire turned their church into a “pile of rubble,”…

ROME, Ga. (ABP) — When a shrimp boat accidentally snagged the wreckage of a submerged plane off the Florida coast early Jan. 2, a long, sad wait came to an end for a Baptist family in Rome, Ga. The bodies…

ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) — Fires apparently set by an arsonist on Christmas Eve and in the pre-dawn hours of Christmas Day caused significant damage to a Baptist community ministry in Arlington, Texas. But by the next day, Mission Arlington was…

DALLAS (ABP) — The Lilly Endowment has awarded Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas a second round of funding for its unique pastoral residency program. The $850,000 grant will fund another five years of the program that brings recent seminary graduates…

BUCKHANNON, W. Va. (ABP) — Praises turned to curses for families gathered Jan. 4 inside a West Virginia Baptist church building waiting for news of their loved ones trapped after a coal-mine accident. Relatives of the 13 trapped miners had…

In the Dec. 22 ABP story “Underwood closes Baylor tenure urging grads to challenge 'prevailing orthodoxy,'” please clarify the 5th paragraph by replacing it with the following: Underwood, president-elect of Mercer University, used his final address at Baylor to underscore…

(ABP) — The dispersion of 1 million Hurricane Katrina evacuees is straining a social safety net that's already stretched to the limit by the needs of the country's 36 million poor people. But those engaged in the long-term fight against…

WACO, Texas (ABP) — Bill Underwood ended his time as Baylor University's interim president by challenging graduates to think for themselves and respect the right of other people to disagree with them. “You are entering a world where you will…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (ABP) — A federal judge has ruled that, while “intelligent design” may itself be intelligent, it isn't science — and shouldn't be taught as science in the public schools. The Dec. 20 decision by U.S. District Judge John…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Vice President Dick Cheney had to cut short an official trip to Pakistan and rush back Washington to cast a tiebreaking Senate vote for budget cuts Dec. 21. The chamber was deadlocked 50-50 on the $40 billion…