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Ann McCauley, right, examines the damage at Bethel Church after Hurricane Beryl moved through the area July 8, 2024, in Van Vleck, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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How a perfect storm sent church insurance rates skyrocketing
By BOB SMIETANA - Religion News Service
Tue,07/23/24-4:48PM , 87 Reads
(RNS) — The Rev. John Parks was taking his first sabbatical in 40 years of ministry when he got a call from his church’s accountant with some bad news.

Church Mutual, the church’s insurance company, had dropped them.
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Buildings and homes are flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura near Lake Charles, La., on Aug. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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Data shows hurricanes and earthquakes grab headlines but inland counties top disaster list
By BY SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,07/23/24-1:00AM , 108 Reads
Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue.
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Billion-dollar Mitsubishi chemical plant economically questionable, energy group says
By JACK BROOK - Associated Press
Mon,07/22/24-8:43PM , 90 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A $1.3 billion chemical production facility to be built in Louisiana by Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi is economically questionable and unnecessarily increases greenhouse gas emissions, according to an energy think tank report released Monday.
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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell speaks at the police headquarters, Feb. 2, 2022, in New Orleans. Federal prosecutors are accusing a former New Orleans police officer, who was indicted Friday, July 19, 2024, of hiding a forbidden romantic relationship with Mayor Cantrell and filing false payroll records claiming he was on duty as one of her bodyguards. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

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Police bodyguard accused of fraud and false statements about alleged affair with mayor
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Mon,07/22/24-6:14PM , 158 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal prosecutors are accusing a former New Orleans police officer of hiding a romantic relationship with Mayor LaToya Cantrell and filing false payroll records claiming he was on duty as one of her bodyguards during hours they spent together on trips abroad, at restaurants and at a city-owned
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