As the World Turns.

Six potential jurors have been picked in the sensational Darren Mack case.
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That filthy molester is still at large.
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Rex Humbard finally had his funeral over the weekend.

More than 500 people attended.
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This is interesting about Michael Vick's dogs:

All but one of the 49 dogs still in custody after the prosecution of Michael Vick on a dogfighting charge have the potential for placement, the office of U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg announced Monday.

A team of certified animal behavior experts evaluated the dogs and deemed only one an immediate candidate for euthanasia, according to a document filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond . That dog has a history of biting people and showed “intense aggression to humans to the point where the evaluation could not safely be completed,” the document said.

At the prosecutors’ request, District Judge Henry E. Hudson ordered that the aggressive dog be euthanized.

The 48 remaining dogs “appear to have some potential for possible placement with specific conditions,” according to Rosenberg’s motion. The prosecutors plan to ask Hudson to appoint a guardian to oversee the disposition and placement of the rest of the dogs.

Some of the dogs might be used to fight crime one day. A future in law enforcement was among the four categories of placement considered for each dog, according to the motion, made by Rosenberg’s office.

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Obituaries.

Alice Ghostley, 81, who won a Tony award and also appeared on the sixties sitcom Bewitched, has died.

She suffered from colon cancer and from a series of strokes.

Ghostley excelled in daffy roles.
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Funeral services for the late televangelist Rex Humbard will be held in Akron, Ohio, where it all began.

The NYT has an obituary as well. Rex Humbard, unlike many televangelists, was apolitical.

He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, but hit the big time with his ministry based in Akron.

Humbard was very prolific, with four children, ten grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren.
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Obituaries.

For some odd reason, this year has been a bad one for televangelists. First Jerry Falwell passed on, then Tammy Faye Messner, then D. James Kennedy. You can also include Ruth Graham, wife of the famed evangelist who also doubled as a television star.

And we can now add Rex Humbard, 88, to the list of deaths.

I watched him often during the 1970s when he had his Cathedral of Tomorrow telecast. His preaching style was what one would call "down home" and definitely low-key by comparison to others.

However, he was much like the others in that his ministry was lavish, and he and his wife Maude Aimee liked to live well. And there were troubles:

However, mounting financial problems forced Humbard to leave one dream unfulfilled. Construction was never completed on a 750-foot broadcast tower in Cuyahoga Falls, between Akron and Cleveland.

His ministry suffered from internal disputes and extensive borrowing. In the 1970s, federal and state regulators complained that millions of dollars in notes that he had issued to followers over the years violated securities laws.

Luckily for him, he was never involved in the sordid scandals that plagued other televangelists.

He was friends with Elvis Presley and spoke at his funeral, which raised him up a few notches in my book.