An Ohio pastor has been found guilty of violating the fire code after running a homeless shelter out a church in Bryan, Ohio.

For the past year, the Rev. Chris Avell and city officials have been battling over the pastor’s efforts to serve the homeless ...

Ohio Attorney General David Yost has filed a brief in support of a pastor who was recently found guilty of a building code ...

An Ohio pastor has been found guilty of a fire code violation and could face as much as two months in jail for keeping his ...

A pastor who turned his Ohio church into an around-the-clock shelter for homeless people has been in a legal fight for more ...

Judge Kent North ruled that Dad’s Place pastor, Chris Avell, is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of violating fire codes.

A pastor in Ohio has been criminally charged for violating safety codes while letting people sleep in his church overnight.

Dad's Place pastor Chris Avell was recently convicted of a misdemeanor fire code violation in operating his church as a 24/7 ...

More than a year after the city first ordered Dad's Place to cease operations as a shelter, the church's pastor was found ...

A judge in northwestern Ohio found a pastor guilty on criminal charges Tuesday for failing to comply with the city fire code ...

Bryan Municipal Court Judge Kent North issued the ruling Tuesday against Pastor Chris Avell, confirming that Dad's Place, a church in Bryan, Ohio, about 65 miles southwest of Toledo, violated the ...