By last week most members of the House of David had signed up for Medicare. Predestined Harbor. For shiftless, Kentucky-born Ben Purnell, the road to Benton Harbor was a circuitous one.

BENTON HARBOR — Their members weren’t allowed to have sex. No meat, no alcohol, no tobacco and no personal property, either. Yet to this day, people talk about how fun they were. These were the strict ...

This portion of a program for the House of David Base Ball Club on display Friday, July 20, 2007, at the Livery in Benton Harbor, explained some 19th century baseball terminology.© Gene Kaiser ...

Brian Carroll, historian and archivist at the Israelite House of David in Benton Harbor, will present “WHISKERINOS at Bat! The House of David’s Barnstorming Baseball Team” on May 3 at the ...

The sale of Benton Harbor’s former House of David was supposed to close in November. Now, that deal has been delayed until next year. History and Real Estate Broker Chris Siriano says "So at the ...

The Israelite House of David, a religious commune in Benton Harbor, was known in North America in the first half of the 20th century for its barnstorming professional baseball teams.

During a drug trafficking investigation in Benton Harbor, police found more than two and a half pounds of cocaine among other pills and drug manufacturing items (Photo provided by Michigan State ...

A quarter-mile apart in Benton Harbor, Mich, lie the dormitories and mansions of two branches of the famed religious cult called the House of David. Founded some 30 years ago by ...