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Timing is everything in Pennsylvania’s clergy sexual abuse report

By Thomas Reese — August 7, 2018
(RNS) — Understanding the grand jury report properly will mean following the timeline. By the ’90s, the number of alleged abuses nationally had returned to the levels of the 1950s. Did Pennsylvania's?

Charges dropped against anti-abortion activists for Texas video

By RNS staff — July 27, 2016
AUSTIN, Texas — Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said in a statement Tuesday (July 26) that her office was limited in what it can investigate under Texas law due to procedural matters with the grand jury process.

Grand jury indicts 2 behind Planned Parenthood videos

By Trevor Hughes — January 25, 2016
The grand jury declined to indict anyone from Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast -- the initial target of the investigation.

Orthodox rabbis indicted in divorce shakedown scheme

By Richard Khavkine — May 23, 2014
TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) Four Orthodox rabbis implicated in a torture-for-hire operation were indicted Thursday (May 22).

‘Snake Salvation’ pastor won’t be charged with violating Tenn. law

By Bob Smietana — January 8, 2014
(RNS) A grand jury decided not to indict the Rev. Andrew Hamblin, star of the National Geographic television series “Snake Salvation," on charges of violating a state ban on possessing venomous snakes.
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