Assisted living facility fire kills 9, sends dozen to hospital as residents scream for their lives
Nine people have died after a fire broke out at a Massachusetts assisted living facility overnight, leaving residents hanging out of windows screaming for help, according to authorities.
Firefighters were called to the Gabriel House assisted living facility in Fall River at approximately 9:50 p.m. on Sunday night, the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services (DFS) confirmed to Fox News Digital.
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Upon arrival, they found the front of the building engulfed by flames and heavy smoke and immediately made entry to begin rescuing residents while working to suppress the fire, officials said.
Around 50 firefighters responded to the emergency and were able to put out the fire – which had grown to five alarms – by Monday morning.
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Several individuals were declared deceased at the scene, while over 30 people were transported to a local hospital with varying degrees of injuries, according to officials. Five firefighters sustained non-life-threatening injuries, while one individual remains in critical condition.
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Approximately 70 people reside in the assisted living facility. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
“This is an unfathomable tragedy for the families involved and the Fall River community,” Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon said. “On behalf of the Fall River Fire Department, I want to express our heartfelt condolences to the loved ones who are grieving this morning.”
Trump gathers CEOs for unprecedented faith, economy meeting to renew US
FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will recognize CEOs and business leaders who donate their time to faith-based charitable works and encourage them to continue investing with the White House Faith Office during a luncheon at the White House on Monday.
The president and the White House Faith Office are expected to host the luncheon, which will include more than 60 CEOs and business leaders, in the State Dining Room.
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Founder of Hobby Lobby David Greene, Chairman and CEO of Jockey International, Inc. Debra Waller, Quest Events founder Lee Dunlap, Aethon Energy founder Albert Huddleston, Shoppa’s Material Handling founder Jimmy Shoppa and others are expected to attend.
The president will be joined by Cabinet secretaries for the event, where he is expected to deliver remarks to thank the business leaders and encourage a continued partnership with the White House Faith Office.
White House Faith Office senior advisor Pastor Paula White, Faith Director Jenny Korn, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler will attend the event and also deliver remarks.
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The luncheon Monday is the first event of its kind, with White House Faith Office officials telling Fox News Digital that they have invited business leaders who work with faith-based charitable organizations “in a big way domestically and internationally.”
The president, in his remarks, is expected to explain why the White House Faith Office is so important to his agenda. He will also encourage business leaders to help the Trump administration, specifically on programs concerning foster care and adoption, fatherhood initiatives, poverty alleviation, substance abuse and prisoner reentry.
“These are purpose-driven individuals who use their wealth for good in the Earth,” the official said. “Faith and Economy come together to Make America Great Again—spiritually and financially.”
“President Trump is not only making America affordable, prosperous and strong again — he is making our country faith-centered again,” Paula White, senior advisor to the White House Faith Office, told Fox News Digital. “CEOs and business leaders who give back their time and treasure is what America is all about.”
Trump signed an executive order establishing a White House Faith Office in February.
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The office empowers faith-based entities, community organizations and houses of worship “to better serve families and communities,” according to the White House.
The office is housed under the Domestic Policy Council and consults with experts in the faith community on policy changes to “better align with American values.”
Biden’s chief of staff reportedly approved autopen pardons in final days
Former President Joe Biden’s chief of staff issued final approval for multiple high-profile preemptive pardons during Biden’s final days in office, according to a new report.
Biden’s alleged use of the autopen has become a sticking point for months, as President Donald Trump has said thousands of pardons Biden signed were void and claimed that the former president did not know what documents he was signing through the automated device.
Biden issued a series of preemptive pardons on his final day to officials including former Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Anthony Fauci, and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley in an attempt to safeguard them from retribution from Trump.
In an article intended to be his defense for the autopen issue, it emerged that, although Biden reportedly made the decision in a meeting, Biden’s Chief of Staff Jeff Zients is the one who gave final approval for the use of the autopen, at least in the case of Fauci and Milley, the New York Times reported.
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On Biden’s final day as president, Jan. 19, Biden had a meeting with his aides until nearly 10 p.m. to talk about various preemptive pardons, the Times reports. Emails obtained by the Times show that an aide sent a summary draft of the decisions formalized during that meeting to Zient’s assistant at 10:03 p.m.
The assistant sent the email to Zients and others present in the meeting, requesting approval from Zients and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed at 10:28 p.m., the Times reported. Zients replied all to the email three minutes later, the outlet said.
“I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons,” Zients said in the email, according to the Times.
Zients could not be immediately reached for comment by Fox News Digital.
Additionally, the Times report said that Biden did not personally approve each name included in the broad, categorical pardons.
“Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence,” the Times reported.
In response, the White House said that the report shed light on Biden’s trustworthiness, and accused the Biden administration of engaging in a cover-up scheme.
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“The same president who lied through his teeth to the American people for four years about everything from his health to the state of the economy should not be trusted again,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in an email to Fox News. “The Biden administration conducted the most egregious cover-up scheme in American politics … The truth will come out about who was, in fact, running the country sooner or later, just as the truth is emerging about the state of Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical health.”
Biden granted a total of 4,245 acts of clemency during his administration, 96% of which were granted during his final months in office between October 2024 and January, according to the Pew Research Center.
Trump first accused Biden of using an autopen to sign important clemency documents in March. He has continued to bring up the issue, and sent a memo ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch an investigation into Biden’s autopen use in June, and to probe if the usage stemmed from a decline in Biden’s mental acuity.
“In recent months, it has become increasingly apparent that Biden’s aides abused the power of presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline and assert Article II authority,” Trump wrote in the memo.
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“This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history. The American public was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power, all while Biden’s signature was deployed across thousands of documents to effect radical policy shifts.”
A White House official previously told Fox News Digital that Trump uses his hand signature for every legally operational or binding document. Even so, Trump has admitted that he uses an autopen for letters.
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An autopen is a machine that physically holds a pen and features programming to imitate a person’s signature. Unlike a stamp or a digitized print of a signature, the autopen has the capability to hold various types of pens like a ballpoint to a permanent marker, according to descriptions of autopen machines available for purchase.
Backstreet Boys star takes action against Florida sheriff over Gulf of America home
Backstreet Boys singer Brian Littrell has filed a lawsuit against a Florida county, accusing the sheriff’s department of refusing to keep trespassers off of his private beach.
Littrell said that to protect the “peaceful enjoyment” of his property in Walton County, Florida, on the Gulf Coast, his limited liability company, BLB Beach Hut LLC, has put up “no trespassing” signs as well as tables, chairs and umbrellas showing where the property line starts on the beach, according to the lawsuit obtained by Fox News Digital and filed in a Florida court recently.
He wrote that the efforts have been “in vain, as numerous trespassers have set out to antagonize, bully and harass the Littrell family by regularly, every day, trespassing on BLB’s beach, on the Subject Property, in open defiance of the law.”
The lawsuit seeks a writ of mandamus to require the sheriff’s department to keep the alleged trespassers off of his beach.
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Littrell wrote in the lawsuit that he has been forced to hire security to protect his land and family, and filled out a Walton County Trespass Authorization Form, authorizing the sheriff’s department to warn and prosecute trespassers on his property.
“Despite BLB’s numerous requests and the execution of the required forms, the sheriff has refused to come to the Subject Property to enforce the law and remove the trespassers, to charge the trespassers, or to take any action, at all, thereby refusing to do their duty,” the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit says that on May 4, a sheriff’s deputy spoke to an alleged trespasser on Littrell’s property, but didn’t remove the trespasser or cite them, merely saying that the alleged trespasser “‘doesn’t agree with private beaches,’ going on to characterize BLB’s insistence that it’s constitutional rights be upheld as ‘lunacy,’ to use one of the words used by a deputy of the Sheriff’s Department.”
The lawsuit also claims that on June 5, an alleged trespasser grabbed legal documents related to the dispute out of the property manager’s hand “and scattered the papers into the wind across the beach.”
Littrel said BLB also contacted the sheriff’s department twice that day regarding the “aggressor,” but the department “refused to send any officer.”
“When BLB personnel contacted the Sheriff for the third time to request an officer again, the 911 operator simply hung up on BLB personnel rather than dispatching the officer that was requested more than an hour prior,” the lawsuit states.
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He claimed that the sheriff’s department is now “openly defying BLB’s requests for assistance to protect its constitutionally protected property rights,” claiming that deputies were overheard on two separate occasions saying that the sheriff was “proud of not issuing any citations for trespassing on the property.”
“Vitriol” against BLB “has recently escalated,” the lawsuit says, claiming that a trespasser damaged a table on his property “after being warned by a BLB employee.”
Littrell claimed that a deputy had come to the property, but hadn’t taken any action against the alleged trespasser, and “body camera footage shows multiple instances of disrespect against BLB’s agents by the responding officer.”
“We bought a home here on this private beach on the Gulf of America in order to be able to vacation in quiet, to be able to enjoy our time without any attention or drama.”
Claiming the sheriff’s department continues to “shirk its duty,” the lawsuit added, “These are unprecedented times, if the Sheriff continues to refuse to protect and uphold the rights of BLB and other community members, private property and other rights held by Florida citizens will only exist on paper.”
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The Walton County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Digital the department doesn’t “comment on pending litigation,” adding it “prides itself on handling every situation, call for service, or interaction with professionalism using a customer service approach. This has always been our philosophy and will continue to be moving forward.”
Littrell told Fox News Digital in a statement: “We bought a home here on this private beach on the Gulf of America in order to be able to vacation in quiet, to be able to enjoy our time without any attention or drama. Unfortunately, we had no idea that there was already a battle which had been happening for years.”
He said that since buying the home, “we have been targeted by people that don’t normally frequent this beach or live in the area. These people, the ones who insist on trespassing in what is actually our backyard, who started this fight have to pass several scarcely populated public beach areas to get to our property.”
Littrell claimed that the alleged trespassers are “people who believe that anyone who has succeeded and managed to live the American Dream must be bad people. They want it so no one owns anything, and everyone is happy, except it never works out that way.”
He added, “The really scary thing is we have provided to law enforcement all the things they asked of all the private beach homeowners to enforce the law and they will not bother to do their duty to protect the homeowners. They will not do the job they were hired to do when hired and sworn in under oath to … protect the citizens and enforce the law.”‘
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He claimed the sheriff’s department has “come against us and will not do their jobs. They allow people to harass and stalk us and the security people,” they hired, adding, “They are MAD that we bought a home on a private beach.”
John Elway learns fate after longtime agent died in golf cart crash in California
Pro Football Hall of Famer John Elway will avoid charges in the death of his agent Jeff Sperbeck, who died in April from injuries sustained in a golf car crash, an official said Friday.
Riverside County, California, Sheriff Chad Bianco told 9News in Denver that the fatal golf cart crash was nothing more than a “tragic accident” and that the investigation into the death has been completed.
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“It’s over. We’ve talked to everyone involved and we found nothing new. There was nothing criminal, it was what we’ve been saying all along that this was a tragic accident,” Bianco told the station.
Sperbeck, 62, died at a golf course in California when he fell from the golf cart that Elway was driving. The Riverside County Coroner’s Office ruled that his death was accidental due to blunt head trauma.
“I’ve looked at video 100 times and there’s no explanation as to why he fell off, he just fell off,” Bianco added.
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Upon Sperbeck’s death, Elway released a statement.
“I am absolutely devastated and heartbroken by the passing of my close friend, business partner and agent Jeff Sperbeck,” Elway said in a statement, via ESPN. “There are no words to truly express the profound sadness I feel with the sudden loss of someone who has meant so much to me.
“My heart and deepest sympathies go out to Jeff’s wife, Cori; his children Carly, Sam and Jackson; and everyone who knew and loved him. Jeff will be deeply missed for the loyalty, wisdom, friendship and love he brought into my life and the lives of so many others.”
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Sperbeck had been Elway’s agent since 1990. The two collaborated on several business ventures as well.
Liberal writer confesses shunning conservative family member was a mistake
A speechwriter for former President Barack Obama suggested in a guest essay on Sunday that it might be time to stop shunning conservatives over a disagreement with their politics.
David Litt wrote in The New York Times that he felt “a civic duty” to be rude to his brother-in-law, citing his support for Joe Rogan and disagreements over the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines.
“My frostiness wasn’t personal. It was strategic. Being unfriendly to people who turned down the vaccine felt like the right thing to do. How else could we motivate them to mend their ways?” Litt wrote.
However, Litt revealed that he wanted to take up surfing and his brother-in-law, Matt, was the only surfer he knew. So, Litt wrote, he put his unfriendliness towards him aside, and admitted his cold shoulder towards Matt had backfired.
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“Matt and I remain very different, yet we’ve reached what is, in today’s America, a radical conclusion: We don’t always approve of each other’s choices, but we like each other,” Litt conceded.
Litt said his brother-in-law’s generosity while they surfed together made him rethink his behavior, and that his surfing guidance had made Litt more courageous.
“Ostracizing him wouldn’t have altered his behavior — and it would have made my own life worse,” Litt wrote.
“Our differences are meaningful, but allowing them to mean everything is part of how we ended up here. When we cut off contacts, or let algorithms sort us into warring factions, we forget that not so long ago, we used to have things to talk about that didn’t involve politics. Shunning plays into the hands of demagogues, making it easier for them to divide us and even, in some cases, to incite violence,” he wrote.
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According to Litt, Matt had told him he would vote for him if he ran for office.
Litt added that he would still decline a surf lesson with Trump aide Stephen Miller, but suggested he wouldn’t close the door on a person over a political disagreement.
“In an age when banishment backfires, keeping the door open to unlikely friendship isn’t a betrayal of principles — it’s an affirmation of them,” Litt continued.
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Several liberals have agreed that cutting ties with family members over their support for Trump in 2024 might be necessary, especially around the holidays.
The co-hosts of “The View” agreed with the notion, calling it a “moral issue.”
Slain student’s sister reveals ‘weird’ three-word text hours before college murders
Idaho murder victim Ethan Chapin’s sister shared the last text the University of Idaho freshman sent her just before he was killed in a home near campus on Nov. 13, 2022.
Bryan Kohberger, 30, recently accepted a plea deal and confessed to killing Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in a 4 a.m. home invasion attack nearly two-and-a-half years ago.
The night before the murders, Mazie Chapin — the triplet sister of Ethan and Hunter Chapin — had her sorority formal on Saturday evening and invited Ethan to be her date since she did not have one and his friends were going, Mazie says in a new Amazon Prime documentary series about the murders titled, “One Night in Idaho: The College Murders.“
“I don’t usually invite anyone to formals, but some of Ethan’s friends were going, and he wasn’t going,” Maizie says in the docuseries. “So, I was like, ‘OK, you can just be my date.’ It was super fun.”
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They left the formal around 9 p.m., and while some students went on to Ethan and Hunter’s fraternity house, Mazie stayed behind.
“For some reason, I stayed and went to bed,” she says in the docuseries. “Ethan kept texting me, ‘Maizie, come hang out.’ I went to sleep, so I wasn’t responding to any of them. Last one said, ‘I love you,’ which was also weird because we don’t say that to each other.”
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The next morning, Ethan was found dead, along with Kernodle, his girlfriend; Goncalves; and Mogen. The four students had been stabbed to death in their rental home just steps from campus in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, a Sunday.
Two-and-a-half years later, on July 1, Kohberger signed a confession as part of his plea deal to avoid the death penalty. He admitted to breaking into the off-campus house at 1122 King Road, in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022, with the intent to commit murder. Then, with premeditation and malice aforethought, he stabbed Ethan Chapin, Kerndole, Mogen and Goncalves.
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Ethan’s mother, Stacy Chapin, was in court on July 2, when Kohberger pleaded guilty to his crimes in person, a day after signing the confession.
“It was cold and calculated and weirdly, like an automated phone message,” Stacy Chapin told “TODAY” of seeing Kohberger in court and hearing his plea. “I mean, it was just like you expected some, I don’t know, remorse, emotion, something. And there was zero.”
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The Goncalves family has been vocal in their disapproval of the plea deal, while the Chapin and Mogen families have supported the move. But despite their differing opinions, the families have expressed that Kohberger’s deal with prosecutors caught them off guard.
“If I could physically do a handstand, I’d probably do one, because I am so ready,” Jim Chapin, Ethan’s father, told “TODAY.” “I’m ready for my kids to move on. I’m ready for us to move on. I mean, it’s been almost two-and-a-half years, and it’s, just, it’s over.”
Stacy Chapin said their first response in terms of the judicial process for Kohberger was “an eye for an eye,” but after speaking with prosecutors, they agreed “this was a better deal.”
“He gets put away, and there’s no appeal system to it,” Stacy Chapin told the outlet. “And there were so many kids, including our own, that had been subpoenaed that no longer have this hanging over their heads.”
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Kohbeger is expected to receive four consecutive terms of life in prison without parole, plus another 10 years.
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As part of the deal, he waived his right to appeal and the right to move for a future sentence reduction.
Kohberger’s trial would have begun in August.
Buffalo Newspaper Guild cancels event following backlash to Texas flood cartoon
The Buffalo Newspaper Guild canceled an event supporting local journalism on Thursday, citing safety concerns, after a cartoon published by The Buffalo News depicting a supporter of President Donald Trump being swept away by the flooding went viral and prompted backlash.
“Public criticism of an editorial cartoon about Texas flooding published Tuesday in The Buffalo News, and malicious campaigning for individuals to protest and confront [Adam] Zyglis at this event, has resulted in a series of death threats against Zyglis and a deluge of other direct threats to hurt him and his family,” the Guild wrote in a statement posted to social media. “
“Historic flash floods have struck Southern Texas, with at least 82 deaths and dozens more missing,” a caption for the July 7th cartoon, drawn by The Buffalo News’ editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis, read. The image sparked backlash from conservatives.
“We wholly condemn the individuals who have chosen to twist a positive, public event into an attempt to terrorize and silence Zyglis, spread fear among journalists and their supporters, and distort the mission of a free press,” the statement added.
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The Guild said the event, which was meant to honor Zyglis, will be postponed, according to the statement.
The cartoon showed a man wearing a red MAGA hat being submerged under floodwaters in Kerr County, Texas, while holding a “HELP” sign. There is also a speech bubble of the man saying, “Gov’t is the problem not the solution.”
The News Guild also re-posted the Buffalo Newspaper Guild’s statement, offering support for Zyglis.
Zyglis weighed in on the canceled event on his Instagram.
“Tonight’s event at the Buffalo History Museum is unfortunately postponed to do safety concerns. Threats to me and my family are never an acceptable response to disagreeing with an editorial cartoon. Threats of violence have no place in a democracy that supports Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment,” he wrote.
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“The Buffalo News remains the largest news organization in Western New York. Its staff, including members of the Buffalo Newspaper Guild, are dedicated to providing comprehensive and accurate information to the people who live and work here every day. The spiteful campaign to attack and harm Zyglis represents only one more example of the challenges we face as a community and the need to better communicate and support our vital, public role,” the Buffalo Newspaper Guild’s statement added.
Several liberal media figures and Democratic Party members came under fire for similarly politicizing the flash floods and blaming President Donald Trump and DOGE for causing the tragedy, despite reports that the National Weather Service office in the area had extra staff on duty at the time of the flooding.
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Famed pastor who defied Newsom’s COVID rules now fighting for his life
John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church (GCC) in Sun Valley, California, has reportedly been hospitalized with pneumonia following years of health complications.
The announcement regarding the 86-year-old’s health came as the congregation was celebrating Sunday service over the weekend, according to The Roys Report.
“This week, Pastor John contracted pneumonia,” associate pastor Tom Patton reportedly announced at the church’s 11 a.m. service on Sunday. “He was admitted into the hospital and may be in the presence of the Lord soon.”
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Patton reportedly asked the congregation to pray for MacArthur, along with his wife, four children and fifteen grandchildren.
The pastor previously made national headlines after a California judge ruled he could continue holding in-person services despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide coronavirus restrictions.
MacArthur has suffered from years of health complications while in the spotlight, including a sudden onset of illness during a 2023 service.
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Since 2023, he has reportedly undergone numerous surgeries to treat atrial fibrillation and other conditions.
He was reportedly hospitalized earlier this year while undergoing a “second procedure” on his lungs, according to the outlet.
“That procedure was successful, and (I) am now back at home,” MacArthur previously said in a statement at the time, according to The Roys Report. “The doctors are optimistic about my recovery, and I am eager to return to you once I regain my strength.”
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However, MacArthur’s prognosis reportedly created uncertainty regarding his health among the church’s congregants, with Patton telling members of the community that the pastor’s recovery from “three surgeries in the second half of 2024” was “slower than expected, and saw “occasional setbacks affecting his heart, lungs and kidneys.”
MacArthur has led GCC’s congregation for 56 years and is president of Grace to You, a nonprofit organization dedicated to distributing nearly 400 book titles authored by the pastor, according to the church’s website.
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“We place our dear pastor at the feet of the glorious Savior,” Patton was quoted as saying during Sunday’s service. “Whom he has served so faithfully for so many years and now awaits His final command to be in his presence forever.”
Grace Community Church did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.