On a fall day in 1999, 19-year-old John I. Post packed up his birth certificate, Social Security card, state identification, favorite blanket and pictures of his family and prepared to leave the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As investigators continued to probe the cause of devastating fires last week which levelled more than 1,000 structures northwest ...

PULASKI, Tennessee – Most families have a family reunion just once a year – maybe around Thanksgiving or Christmas. For members of the Twelve Tribes, a Christian community with a branch in Pulaski, ...

Frank W. spent five years working for the Twelve Tribes religious sect and never took home a paycheck. The 65-year-old Tennessean worked many 12-hour days in various jobs across the country for the ...

PLYMOUTH – Twelve Tribes, which owns Blue Blinds Bakery, is poised to add Yellow Deli to the downtown mix. Five years later, The Yellow Deli looks like it might open in the fall, breathing new life ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The mishmash of houses occupied by the Twelve Tribes religious sect remains a focus of the investigation into the origin of the Marshall fire, as Boulder ...

A Plymouth “elder” in the Twelve Tribes religious organization is scheduled to be sentenced in Fall River Superior Court on Wednesday after he was charged with child rape and indecent assault.Nehemya ...

A joyous noise echoed over the Morning Star Ranch in ValleyCenter as the sun descended on a recent Friday and the faithful,after six days of labor, welcomed the Sabbath with song, dance,prayers and a ...

Chris Hallman is often asked if he's Amish. Or a hippie. He's neither, he answers. But he understands why people are confused by his beard, ponytail and uniformly dressed friends while they're selling ...

Standing in a circle, a group of Manitou Springs residents holds hands and begins to gyrate in a lively counterclockwise dance dedicated to Jesus. As musicians play acoustic guitars and flute, the 30 ...

Who: The Twelve Tribes, the Commonwealth ofIsrael, is a Christian religious community that began in Tennesseein the 1970s and now has followers in several countries. InCalifornia, there is one ...

Steven Waldman is president and editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com, and author of Founding Faith. Previously the national editor of U.S. News & World Report, he is a recognized expert on religion, ...