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Police: Mom who drove girls into river tried poison first

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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows John David Battaglia who is scheduled for execution Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, in Huntsville, Texas, for the May 2001 slayings of his two daughters. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

The Latest: Ex-accountant put to death in daughters’ deaths

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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows John David Battaglia who is scheduled for execution Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, in Huntsville, Texas, for the May 2001 slayings of his two daughters. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

Dallas man executed for killing daughters while mom listened

By MICHAEL GRACZYK - Associated Press

Jamey Anderson holds a photo on his phone of himself, bottom left, at the Word of Faith Christian School with classmates, from left, Liam, Risa Burgeson Pires, and Christopher Davies, and teachers Lisa Brown, top left, and Marty Roper, top right, during an interview in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. Throughout his adolescence, Anderson says he was singled out as a rebel and suffered some of the most brutal treatment in the church. Among his transgressions: making a funny face at a classmate. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

‘Nobody saved us’: Man describes childhood in abusive ‘cult’

By MITCH WEISS and HOLBROOK MOHR - Associated Press

Former Word of Faith Fellowship church member Rachael Bryant poses for a photo with her tax records at her home in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. She and 10 other members of the evangelical North Carolina-based church say their leader, Jane Whaley, coerced congregants into filing false unemployment claims after the faltering economy threatened weekly tithes from church-affiliated companies. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

North Carolina church used unemployment scam to boost funds, ex-members say

By Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr - Associated Press

In this Friday, May 19, 2017 photo, Matthew Fenner stands with his aunt, Lynn Rape, outside the Rutherford County Courthouse after a hearing on his case against Word of Faith Fellowship church in Rutherfordton, N.C. Fenner, a former church member, said he was kidnapped and assaulted by members because he is gay. In December 2014, a grand jury indicted five church members. “If it wasn’t for our pressure,” Rape said, “nothing would have happened.” (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

AP: Authorities delayed investigating gay ‘demons’ case

By MITCH WEISS and HOLBROOK MOHR - Associated Press

In this photo taken May 19, 2017, Brooke Covington, a member of the Word of Faith Fellowship church in Spindle, N.C., leaves a hearing at Rutherford County Courthouse accompanied by attorney, Joshua Valentine, in Rutherfordton, N.C. Covington and other church members are accused of kidnapping and assaulting Matthew Fenner, a former church member, because he is gay. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

Co-defendant testifies against minister in church abuse case

By MITCH WEISS and JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 AT 1 A.M. EDT AND THEREAFTER-In this 2012 photo provided by a former member of the church, Jeffrey Cooper holds his infant daughter at her 2012 baby dedication at the Word of Faith Fellowship compound in Spindale, N.C. At second right is Frank Webster, an assistant North Carolina prosecutor who is married to church leader Jane Whaley's daughter, Robin, left. At right is Frank Webster's son, Brock. At second left is Jeffrey Coopers' wife, Natalie. Frank Webster and Chris Back _ church ministers who handle criminal cases as assistant DAs for three nearby counties _ provided legal advice, helped at strategy sessions and participated in a mock trial for four congregants charged with harassing a former member, according to former congregants interviewed as part of an AP investigation of Word of Faith. (AP Photo)

Ex-sect members tell AP: Prosecutors obstructed abuse cases

By MITCH WEISS - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, FEB. 27, 2017 AT 1 A.M. EDT AND THEREAFTER-In this 2012 provided by a former member of the church, Word of Faith Fellowship leader Jane Whaley, center, holds a baby, accompanied by her husband, Sam, center right, and others during a ceremony in the church's compound in Spindale, N.C. From all over the world, they flocked to this tiny town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, lured by promises of inner peace and eternal life. What many found instead: years of terror _ waged in the name of the Lord. (AP Photo)

AP Exclusive: Ex-congregants reveal years of ungodly abuse

By MITCH WEISS - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in the Moscow's Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

EDITORIAL: The 2016 campaign continues

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Ottawa day care suspends 2-year-old for ‘outside’ cheese sandwich

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 photo, from left, actress Ashley Aufderheide, director Maya Forbes, actor Mark Ruffalo and actress Imogene Wolodarsky of the film, &quot;Infinitely Polar Bear,&quot; pose for a portrait at The Collective and Gibson Lounge Powered by CEG, during the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

‘Infinitely Polar’ about director’s troubled youth

By JESSICA HERNDON - Associated Press

A news camera man films a marble depiction of the ten commandments mounted in the front lawn of the Faith and Action offices after it was vandalized over the weekend across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C., Monday, September 23, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Vandals topple Ten Commandments statue near Supreme Court building

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times