Justin Cook

For more about Dove House or Precious email Benjamin Burnett or call 919-885-8721. LeVonne “Precious” Rish, 55, from South Carolina, says when she was 16, she disobeyed her mother, went to a party and never came home. Cocaine got ahold of her, and for 40 years, she says, she would do anything to feed her […]

Hillside High School band members, football players and students celebrated homecoming in mid-October, beating Jordan High 53-0. Later that week, thousands lined the streets for the homecoming parade, grasping for candy tossed from floats, riders on horseback and masked motorcyclists and the homecoming king and queen. Little princesses, Transformers and skeletons with bags full of […]

William Lipscomb Sr. will tell you that Derek Walker was the type of guy who would give you the shirt off his backliterally. Walker donated much of his 5-year-old son’s clothing to Lipscomb’s 3-year-old son, William III. Lipscomb held up his son to view Walker in the casket and whispered, “That’s your neighbor.” Walker was […]

Jesus Christ was the vine, a celibate carpenter from Bethlehem, the sinless savior of the world. Dean Padgett is a fallen man from Stem, N.C., a married minister, a health care administrator and, to many, a messenger of hope. Dean dons a cheap brown wig and rubber crown of thorns purchased from a costume shop […]