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Editor’s note: Rick Lance is executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. PRATTVILLE, Ala. (BP) – Breaking news is a commonly used headline for some current event that demands our attention. Many times breaking news breaks our hearts. This was the case for many, myself included, on Sunday morning, April 15th. I looked at my phone and saw a news alert with the story of a horrific event in Dadeville, Alabama: the sad story of a birthday shooting. party I immediately contacted Ben Hayes, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church Dadeville. I also contacted our disaster relief…

The Plant City Police Department is investigating a shooting on Interstate 4 Tuesday that killed a woman and seriously injured a man. A man called 911 around 9:12 p.m. and told dispatchers that he and his female passenger had been shot while driving on I-4, according to a news release from the police department. The man stopped his car at Plant City Fire Rescue Station 3, 1704 N. Park Rd., where the two received help. The woman suffered trauma to her upper body and died at the scene, police said. The man was taken to a local hospital, where he…

SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic (WABC) — Six men are in custody in the Dominican Republic and charged in the fatal shooting and attempted robbery of a 9-year-old Bronx boy, and two of the suspects are family friends, according to a relative of the victims. Gioser Luis Féliz, 9, was shot in the head Wednesday in Santiago after arriving from New York with his father. Reports say Gioser and his father, Sergio Luis Feliz Mancebo, left JFK Airport on Wednesday for a spring break trip to see family. They met a driver at Cibao International Airport to embark on what was to…

IDABEL, Okla. — So many North Texas residents cross the border into McCurtain County in far southeast Oklahoma each week that the area has earned the nickname “Dallas-Fort Worth Hamptons.” With their clean rivers and lakes, these forested foothills of the Ouchita Mountains are dotted with luxury cabins, and the tourism boom of the past two decades has fueled a renaissance in the region. Jobs are no longer limited to the lumber industry or the chicken processing plant, and parents are more optimistic that their children will not have to leave the community to find work. But growing optimism about…

A 26-year-old man died in Naples after being wounded by shots fired during a night of celebrations sparked by Napoli winning their third Serie A title, media said on Friday. Three other people were injured in the same incident in the southern Italian city. It is not yet clear whether the shots were fired as part of the football celebrations, or whether it was criminal activity, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper. La Stampa newspaper said the victim, who died after being taken to hospital, was linked to a local mafia clan. Police are investigating. More than 200 people…

Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn have split after six years together, Entertainment tonight exclusively confirmed. The split was amicable and “wasn’t dramatic.” The 33-year-old singer is currently with her much expected “You were” tour. Her relationship with the British actor, 32 years old, “had just run its course” and that’s why “that’s why [Alwyn] has not been seen in any show,” reports ET. The pair were rumored to have met at the 2016 Met Gala and have kept their relationship mostly private. One of the few times the couple was publicly photographed together was at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards,…

A 93-year-old man was killed and two others were injured in a two-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon on U.S. 301 near Wimauma, troopers said. The man was traveling south in a pickup truck and turned left at the intersection of Bill Tucker Road “into the path” of a 17-year-old driving a sedan, according to the State Highway Patrol. Florida. The teenager, who is from Brandon and was not wearing a seat belt, hit the pickup truck which then rolled several times. Both vehicles came to rest on the east shoulder of the roadway, troopers said. The man later died in hospital…

A South Carolina beach partially filled with high school students participating in a “senior jump day” descended into chaos Friday afternoon as gunfire wounded at least five beachgoers. Local police initially reported that six swimmers were injured; four days after the incident, they said only five were injured. Isle of Palms Police Chief Kevin Cornett said most of the injured were teenagers, although an older swimmer was also injured. Police were already on the beach responding to two fights when the shooting began around 5:20 Friday afternoon, according to Cornett. “A large crowd of individuals who were apparently part of…