The wife of televangelist Joel Osteen thanked and praised God after a jury unanimously decided Thursday that she did not assault a flight attendant during an alleged tirade about a stain on her first-class seat. ...more

August 15, 2008

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who is investigating six televangelists - including Randy and Paula White of Tampa-based Without Walls International - for alleged lavish spending, is facing growing criticism from prominent conservatives and evangelicals, some of whom question whether Grassley is biased against the Pentecostal televangelists because of his Baptist faith. ...more

May 25, 2008

Sen. John McCain on Thursday rejected the endorsement of the Rev. John Hagee, a televangelist, after a watchdog group released a recording of a sermon in which Hagee said Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust had been part of God's plan to chase the Jews from Europe and drive them to Palestine. ...more

May 23, 2008

THE PROMISES Church member Ruth McGinnis lent the Whites $170,000 in 1995 to help them buy a home. They never paid her back or cared for her as promised. LaShonda Dupree didn't get a home she believed she won in a church-sponsored essay contest in 2002. The Whites repaid McGinnis and bought Dupree a home after their stories ran in the Tribune. ...more

November 11, 2007

TAMPA - What did the televangelist say to the strip-club owner who talked to the Islamic activist? TV watchers can find out when "Live Prayer" host Bill Keller, Mons Venus owner Joe Redner and Ahmed Bedier, executive director of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, talk about Christianity and Islam in a live debate on the Tampa Bay Community Network. The three will be featured on "The Bleepin Truth," which airs at 10 p.m. Tuesday on Bright House Channel 20. Check local listings for other times and channels. ...more

October 2, 2007