California, LA County both to pay $US400,000 settlement to John MacArthur’s church
RNS The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to authorise a $US400,000 payment to settle a legal battle with Grace Community Church over lead pastor John MacArthur’s defiance of COVID-19 restrictions in the early months of the pandemic. Under the agreement, which the board unanimously approved without discussion, the state of California […]
LA officials stream annual ceremony honouring unknown dead
Los Angeles, APAP During their lives they somehow slipped out of sight to the rest of us, and when death came to these 1,547 residents of Los Angeles County, they had become anonymous to the world. Rather than simply place their remains in an unmarked grave after three years of fruitless searching for family, local […]
US pastor who has defied COVID-19 orders will face new hearing in November
Los Angeles, USRNS The same state social-distancing measures that have ensnarled Rev John MacArthur in legal proceedings for his refusal to close his church have now delayed a reckoning for the Sun Valley, California, pastor, as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Thursday scheduled a hearing until mid-November. County officials, in a statement, […]