A Tennessee man is suing his church for $2.5 million, claiming someone should have been there to catch him when he collapsed in religious ecstasy. Matthew Lincoln, 58, says that after minister Robert Lavala of Lakewind Church anointed his forehead, Lincoln “received the spirit and fell backward,” striking his head on the “carpet-covered cement floor.” The fall allegedly exacerbated a pre-existing spinal condition. A lawyer for the church’s insurer said Lincoln should have realized no “catchers” were situated behind him.
The Dallas City Council is regretting its decision to let residents vote on a new name for the city’s gritty Industrial Boulevard. In Internet and telephone voting, 52 percent of those polled have said they want to rename the road “César Ch
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