Other North County hospitals incurred lesser penalties

By PAUL SISSON -

psisson@nctimes.com |
Saturday, July 25, 2009 10:09 PM PDT

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Tri-City Medical Center faces $129,500 in fines for failing to promptly
report four "adverse events" [...]

WASHINGTON — President Obama, under growing criticism for not seeking to end the ban on openly gay men and women in the military, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.

Obama plans to announce his decision on Wednesday in the Oval Office, a White House official said Tuesday. The official spoke on the condition [...]

INVERNESS, SCOTLAND
More than 100 churches have come together to partner with world evangelist Luis Palau for a far-reaching campaign with the goal of winning Scotland back to Jesus Christ.

According to a media release, more than half the region’s churches are involved, representing most denominations.

The Highland Festival with Luis Palau is anticipated to be the [...]

Carrie Prejean will not lose her Miss California crown, Donald Trump announced in a press conference on Wednesday. He was responding to controversy over whether Prejean violated her Miss California contract, with modeling photos and an ad supporting traditional marriage.

“She has taken a lot of abuse from people who shouldn’t be handing out abuse. But [...]

AB 66-Pupil Work Permits (Anderson) Under California law, school students may not obtain a job without a school-issued work permit from a local public school superintendent. The process by which a private school student receives a permit can be difficult and confusing, as many times they are forced to go through their local public school [...]

May 11, 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya (Compass Direct News) — A pastor trying to visit Somalia’s autonomous, self-declared state of Somaliland earlier this year discovered just how hostile the separatist region can be to Christians.

A convert from Islam, Abdi Welli Ahmed is an East Africa Pentecostal Church pastor from Kenya who in February tried to visit [...]

Sunday May 10th, 2009
By Brian Nixon
Special to ASSIST News Service
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (ANS) — Dove award-winning singer, Crystal Lewis, was in Albuquerque, New Mexico to sing at Calvary of Albuquerque’s Mother’s Day services.

Crystal Lewis
Lewis, a mother of two, told the audience heart-warming stories of her own children, both teenagers. As teenagers, Lewis explained that her [...]

By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO (ANS) — With Mother’s Day on our minds, our thoughts obviously focus on “mom.”

My Mother, Father, Brother Tony and Myself (sitting) in an Undated Photo.

For this year’s celebration, let’s make sure that we do more than just buy mom a rose or two, take her out [...]

By Bill Ellis
Special to ASSIST News Service
SCOTT DEPOT, WV (ANS) — Pastors, both men and women, of thousands of churches throughout the world, are very important to millions of people. We all have a special concern for pastors.

You have responded quickly and helpfully to my first two columns on the “101 Things a pastor needs [...]

Double Oscar-winning composer, Al Kasha, reveals the inside story

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (ANS) — Al Kasha (born 22 January 1937) is a Brooklyn–born composer, songwriter and arranger, as well as businessman. He is most noted for his years of collaboration with songwriter Joel Hirschhorn.

Al Kasha with his two Oscars

The songwriting duo [...]