Terry Sedlacek's day of death when he killed Pastor Fred Winters

Terry Sedlacek, the man charged with the death of Pastor Fred Winters at the First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illionois had marked the day as a 'day of death' in his notebook before he walked into the church with the intent to kill Pastor Fred Winters. William Mudge, the...

Preacher gunned down at his pulpit

Pastor gunned down in Illinois church Posted: 02:38 PM ET (CNN) — The pastor of a Maryville, Illinois, church was shot to death during a service Sunday in front of horrified parishoners who then tackled the gunman, state police said. Fred Winters, the pastor of the...

The demise of newspapers means better journalism

We who contemplate the importance of journalism look at the future with trepidation. What happens to journalism, we ask, when newspapers continue on their inevitable decline? The question assumes that journalism itself will be diminished. I am coming to a different...