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An Idaho pastor was shot and critically wounded in the parking lot of his church just a day after he prayed with Ted Cruz and delivered the invocation at one of his campaign rallies this weekend. Tim Remington, 55, was shot six times - including in the head, lung, hip and shoulder - in front of the nondenominational Altar Church in Coeur d'Alene. Police said Kyle Andrew Odom, 30, is the suspected shooter. He remains at large and is considered armed and dangerous. John Padula, an associate pastor at the church, said surveillance footage captured the shooter attending the morning...

A shooting during a morning church service outside St. Louis has left at least one person dead -- the church's pastor -- and several others wounded, officials said. The Rev. Fred Winters was at the pulpit at the First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill. at 8:15 a.m. local time when a man "walked down the aisle of the church," approached the pulpit and shot Winters in the chest with a .45 caliber handgun, said Trooper Ralph Timmins of the Illinois State Police, which is handling the investigation. The gun jammed, and the shooter then injured himself with a knife and...