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April 28, 2011
KRANTZ v. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
2011 Ark. 185
MIRIAM KRANTZ AND ALBERT KRANTZ, Appellants,
v.
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, Appellee.
No. 10-694.
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April 28, 2011
REID v. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
2011 Ark. 187
ALPHONZO REID, Appellant,
v.
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, Appellee.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
April 29, 2011
By Alison Sider
Ruling on Alamo parents upheld
The state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s termination of the parental rights of five families who had refused to live independently of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministry, ruling that such an action did not violate the parents’ First Amendment right to religious freedom.
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Arkansas News
April 28, 2011
By Rob Moritz
Arkansas News Bureau
Court upholds decision to strip Alamo followers of parental rights
A Miller County circuit judge’s decision to terminate the parental rights of seven followers of Tony Alamo was upheld today by the Arkansas Supreme Court.
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Greenfield Reporter
April 28, 2011
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ark. Supreme Court says court was right to void parental rights for some Alamo followers
The Arkansas Supreme Court says a judge was right to terminate the parental rights of seven people who saw their 16 children seized from the compound of evangelist Tony Alamo (uh-LAH’-moh) in 2008.
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Texarkana Gazette
April 7, 2011
By: Lynn LaRowe
Former Alamo followers sue security company
A Wake Village, Texas, security company that once patrolled the grounds and perimeter of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries in Fouke, Ark., is being sued by former members.
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Beaumont Enterprise
April 7, 2011
Texas company added to lawsuit against ministry
A Texas security company has been added as a defendant in a lawsuit against businesses operated by Tony Alamo Christian Ministries of Fouke and people associated with the ministry.
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Wall Street Journal
February 25, 2011
By MITCH HOROWITZ
When Does a Religion Become a Cult?
America has long been a safe harbor for experimental faiths. But the unorthodox can descend into something darker.
America has probably supplied the world with more new religions than any other nation. Since the first half of the 19th century, the country’s atmosphere of religious experimentation has produced dozens of movements, from Mormonism to a wide range of nature-based practices grouped under the name Wicca.
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Arkansas Online
March 17, 2011
BY ANDY DAVIS
Appeals panel hears Alamo case. Church claims suit against state dismissed for wrong reason
An attorney for the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries on Wednesday acknowledged that the church’s lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Human Services has legal shortcomings but maintained that a judge dismissed the case for the wrong reason.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
April 8, 2011
BY ANDY DAVIS
Security firm added to suit
Guards allowed abuses at Alamo ministry, plaintiffs say
A security company that once guarded the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound in southwest Arkansas has been added as a defendant in a lawsuit against ministry members and ministry-controlled businesses.
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Texarkana Gazette
January 26, 2011
By: Lynn LaRowe
Alamo followers keep Kolbek’s daughter from funeral
The daughter of Tony Alamo’s alleged enforcer John Kolbek was turned away from her father’s funeral Friday in Fouke, Ark., by a group of Alamo loyalists that included her mother.
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Daily Independent (Ashland, Kentucky)
January 20, 2011
Tim Preston
Alleged cult enforcer died on quiet farm
Kolbeck [Kolbek] had been on run from FBI for two years
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette
January 19, 2011
Alamo’s enforcer died of heart failure
Authorities in Kentucky say the alleged enforcer of convicted evangelist Tony Alamo died of congestive heart failure.
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Thelevisalazer.com
January 15, 2011
By Mark Grayson
FBI ‘most wanted’ found dead in Blaine by Lawrence Sheriff
Accused of abusing children, Kolbek, 51, was featured on several television segments
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The Independent (Ashland, Kentucky)
January 14, 2011
Associated Press
FBI most wanted found dead in Louisa
Accused of abusing children, Kolbeck, [Kolbek] 50, was featured on several television segments
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Times Record
January 15, 2011
By Jordan Grummer
Follower Of Alamo Dead
John Erwin Kolbeck, a fugitive from justice for the last two years and one of America’s most wanted men, was found dead in Kentucky, according to the Fort Smith Police Department.
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Texarkana Gazette
January 15, 2011
By: Lynn LaRowe
Alleged enforcer Kolbek found dead in Kentucky
Tony Alamo’s alleged enforcer John Kolbek died Thursday in rural Lawrence County, Ky.
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