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Former Uriah Heep keyboard player Ken Hensley has died at the age of 75. Hensley wrote several of the London rock band's early tracks, including Easy Livin', Stealin', and Lady in Black - which he also sang on. He died "peacefully" on Wednesday evening, following a short illness, his management confirmed. Former bandmate, Mick Box said his music "will be in people's hearts forever".

A Chattanooga, Tennessee, high school athletics director has been placed on administrative leave after a video was posted, and then deleted, of him saying boys should “blame the girls” if they were upset about the dress code, WTVC reported. The Chattanooga Times Free Press and other outlets obtained copies of the video and re-uploaded them. The video was originally posted on Soddy-Daisy High School’s YouTube page, according to WTVC. In it, Jared Hensley faces the camera and talks about the school’s policy of not wearing athletic shorts. “I know, boys, you’re thinking, ‘I don’t understand why, it’s not fair, athletic...

APOLOGIA WHY I'M CATHOLIC: SOLA SCRIPTURA ISN'T LOGICAL, PART III 6/28/2015 3 Comments Even though I've been writing for thirteen weeks now about an obscure Latin phrase (sola scriptura) and using some terms that are so out of vogue in our modern "what I feel is all that's real" world (for instance, "logical") I can't stress enough that I'm talking about something I experienced to the depths of my being. Something existential. It was like the Northridge Earthquake. But this time it wasn't the foundation of my house moving and shifting and beginning to crumble; it was the foundation of...

WILKES-BARRE – Justin Hensley said he was out of work in April 2005 when Joseph Kerekes offered him a job as an escort for Norfolk Male Escorts in Virginia. Hensley then began performing with Kerekes’ partner, Harlow Cuadra, in gay pornographic films and moved in with the two in July 2005 to help operate their Web sites. “I grew to be a friend of Cuadra because he took care of me,” Hensley testified Wednesday during the second day of Cuadra’s capital murder trial before Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. Cuadra, 27, is charged with killing rival pornographic movie...

Mother: Son did not kill innocent Iraqis Family reflects on ordeal involving Candler soldier ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The parents of a North Carolina soldier charged with killing three Iraqis and planting weapons on them say their son turned down a plea offer and maintains his innocence. Staff Sgt. Michael A. Hensley, of Candor, is one of three soldiers charged with murder and obstruction of justice. The deaths occurred between April and June south of Baghdad. "In your worst nightmare, you don't think something like this could happen," Jannette Hensley said Tuesday. The Hensleys are from the Asheville area and have...

PROTESTANTS DISCOVER CATHOLICISM In 1992, a member of First Baptist Church in Montrose, California asked for theological guidance from his senior pastor, Ken Hensley. The church member, angered that his wife refused to leave the Catholic Church, had been debating with Catholic Answers by mail. Catholic Answers responded by sending him some apologetics materials. The man felt these were over his head. He asked his pastor to review a tape they had sent him, to tell him where they were wrong. "I looked down at the cover of the tape," says Hensley, "and it said 'by Scott Hahn.' My eyes...

Kidnappers beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley after twice releasing videos in which he wept and pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair for his life. A U.S. official said Friday there was credible information that Bigley had tried to escape with the aid of one of his captors. The attempt failed and Bigley was killed a short time later as was shown on a video of his beheading, the Washington official said on condition of anonymity. There was no word on the fate of his captor. A Western official in Baghdad refused to talk about the escape attempt report. The 62-year-old...

America's morning TV sweetheart, Katie Couric, wasted no time on Wednesday trying to turn the beheading of Americans in Iraq into political ammunition - asking the brother of executed hostage Jack Hensley if he still supported the war. "Well, how do you feel about the war in Iraq at this point?" the "Today" host asked Ty Hensley, after having him describe the devastating impact of his brother's murder just hours before. Much to Couric's chagrin, however, Hensley didn't rise to the bait. Instead he told "Today": "At this point, I want our servicemen, I want them to come back alive....

What an interview with Jack Hensley's brother! John Scott and Ty Hensley (brother of Jack)were both crying by the end of it! Ty Hensley said that Zarqawi did not make his point. This will be in my family for generations. To kill my brother in this way. "He should not have killed my brother the volunteer. He will pay a price."

ABC News (890 AM/Chicago) is reporting the following: The wife and daughter of recently beheaded hostage Jack Hensley taped an interview when they had found out about his capture and the threat against his life. They had asked Al-Kathab (we know them as Al-Jazeera) to show the video so that the terrorists could see them begging and crying for mercy for their beloved. Al-Kathab, which has been showing the beheadings, told the family that they were "too busy" to show their tape on the network; they said that they "might show the tape tomorrow (which is now today)." --- They...

The Associated Press - MARIETTA, Ga. Family friends were seen coming and going from John Hensley's house, as news spread that a Web site posting had claimed one of the American hostages in Iraq was beheaded Monday. An al-Qaida linked group threatened in a videotape Saturday to behead two Americans and a Briton within 48 hours. The videotape was the first word on the fate of the 48-year-old Hensley, fellow American Eugene Armstrong and Briton Kenneth Bigley since the three construction workers were kidnapped from their Baghdad home Thursday. The claim in the posting, which did not identify which man...