Mitch Weiss
The Associated Press
Charlotte, NC, United States
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Ex-congregant charged with breaking into minister's home
A secretive evangelical church in North Carolina says hysteria over the new coronavirus may have motivated an ex-member with a gun to break into the home of one of the sect’s top ministers → Read More
Mission Health suspending visitation to all facilities
Mission Health announced Saturday it will be suspending all visitation until further notice. → Read More
Former Real Madrid president dies from coronavirus
Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz died Saturday from the new coronavirus, his family said. He was 76. → Read More
US tourists stranded abroad don't know when they'll return
Linda Scruggs and Mike Rustici trained for months to hike the winding trails leading to Machu Picchu's complex of Inca ruins. So they were thrilled when their flight landed last Friday in the Peruvian capital. They managed to do part of their trek but now they are trapped in a Lima hotel room and do not know when they will make it back to the U.S. The couple, like thousands around the world, are… → Read More
US tourists stranded abroad don't know when they'll return
Linda Scruggs and Mike Rustici trained for months to hike the winding trails leading to Machu Picchu's complex of Inca ruins. Peru confirmed its first case of the virus on March 6. Scruggs and Rustici, both in their 40s and from Nashville, Tennessee, told The Associated Press in telephone interviews → Read More
Minister at secretive N Carolina church sentenced for fraud
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A minister at a secretive church in North Carolina has been sentenced to 34 months in prison and ordered to pay $466,960 in restitution for his role in an unemployment fraud scheme involving businesses owned by members of the congregation. Kent Covington, a minister at the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, North Carolina, was charged with one count of conspiracy to… → Read More
Minister at secretive N Carolina church sentenced for fraud
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A minister at a secretive church in North Carolina has been sentenced to 34 months in prison and ordered to pay $466,960 in restitution for his role in an unemployment fraud scheme involving businesses owned by members of the congregation. Kent Covington, a minister at the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, North Carolina, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit… → Read More
AP Investigation: Insulin Pumps have high number of injuries
DESTIN, Florida (AP) — When Polly Varnado's 9-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, it didn't take long for the family to hear about insulin pumps. In September 2012, the girl picked out a purple one — her favorite color. Over the next seven months, she proceeded to be hospitalized four times in a McComb, Mississippi medical center with high blood sugar. But when Varnado asked… → Read More
Insulin pumps have most reported problems in FDA database
When Polly Varnado's 9-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, it didn't take long for the family to hear about insulin pumps. In September 2012, the girl picked out a purple one — her favorite color. Over the next seven months, she proceeded to be hospitalized four times... → Read More
Spinal-cord stimulators help some patients, injure others
Desperate for relief after years of agony, Jim Taft listened intently as his pain management doctor described a medical device that could change his life. It wouldn't fix the nerve damage in his mangled right arm, Taft and his wife recalled the doctor saying, but a spinal-cord stimulator... → Read More
Patients shocked, burned by device touted to treat pain
AP investigation: Medical device companies and doctors aggressively push spinal-cord stimulators as a safe antidote to the deadly opioid crisis in the U.S. and for relief of pain. But spinal-cord stimulators are more dangerous than many patients know. → Read More
Spinal-cord stimulators mean big business for device makers
Few medical devices hold as much potential for explosive growth as spinal-cord stimulators , especially in the United States, where they are being pushed as the answer to the country's opioid epidemic. The global market for spinal-cord stimulators has grown from $300 million in 2001... → Read More
Patients shocked, burned by device touted to treat pain
Desperate for relief after years of agony, Jim Taft listened intently as his pain management doctor described a medical device that could change his life. It wouldn't fix the nerve damage in his mangled right arm, Taft and his wife recalled the doctor saying, but a spinal-cord stimulator... → Read More
Patients shocked, burned by device touted to treat pain
AP investigation: Medical device companies and doctors aggressively push spinal-cord stimulators as a safe antidote to the deadly opioid crisis in the U.S. and for relief of pain. But spinal-cord stimulators are more dangerous than many patients know. → Read More
Spinal-cord stimulators help some patients, injure others
Desperate for relief after years of agony, Jim Taft listened intently as his pain management doctor described a medical device that could change his life. It wouldn't fix the nerve damage in his mangled right arm, Taft and his wife recalled the doctor saying, but a spinal-cord stimulator... → Read More
Patients shocked, burned by device touted to treat pain
AP investigation: Medical device companies and doctors aggressively push spinal-cord stimulators as a safe antidote to the deadly opioid crisis in the U.S. and for relief of pain. But spinal-cord stimulators are more dangerous than many patients know. → Read More
Patients shocked, burned by device touted to treat pain
AP investigation: Medical device companies and doctors aggressively push spinal-cord stimulators as a safe antidote to the deadly opioid crisis in the U.S. and for relief of pain. But spinal-cord stimulators are more dangerous than many patients know. → Read More
Head of secretive North Carolina sect named in fraud scam
The leader of a secretive church in North Carolina has been named in federal court records as someone who "promoted" an unemployment fraud scheme involving businesses owned by members of her congregation. Jane Whaley, leader of the Word of Faith Fellowship, was named in a document filed... → Read More
Church says candidate trespassed, but he says he was invited
A leader of a secretive evangelical congregation has persuaded a magistrate to issue trespassing charges against a North Carolina state Senate candidate who brought supporters and a TV crew along to a scheduled meeting at the church. Democratic candidate David Wheeler says he was invited by Jane Whaley, the leader of the Word of Faith Fellowship, to visit the church in Spindale, North Carolina.… → Read More
Minister files trespassing charge against NC candidate
A leader of a secretive evangelical congregation has persuaded a magistrate to issue trespassing charges against a North Carolina state senate candidate who brought supporters and a TV crew along to a scheduled meeting at the church. → Read More