Pets Seized From Sonoma Co. Man Planning Pre-Rapture Killings
BOYES HOT SPRINGS (CBS 5) – On Friday night, animal control officials in Sonoma County seized three animals belonging to a man who planned to euthanize the pets ahead of Saturday’s predicted “Judgment...
View ArticleMany Bay Area Christians Disagree With Oakland Evangelist’s Judgment Day...
OAKLAND (KCBS) — An Oakland preacher is standing by his prediction that Saturday is Judgment Day. Despite relentless scorn and opposition, Harold Camping, a Christian radio broadcaster and president of...
View ArticleBay Area Apocalypse Believers Awaited End, Skeptics Carried On
OAKLAND (CBS SF/AP) — “It’s God who leads you, not Harold Camping.” Those are the words of Keith Bauer, a trucker who drove his family in their minivan from Maryland to California to await the 6 p.m....
View Article3.6 Quake Rattles Nerves In Hercules
HERCULES (CBS SF/AP) — A 3.6-magnitude earthquake shook Contra Costa County Saturday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck about 2 miles south of Hercules just after 7 p.m....
View ArticleOakland Minister Offers New Rapture Date
OAKLAND (CBS News / AP) — The Bay Area religious radio host who had predicted the world would end on May 21, 2011 said that he was “flabbergasted” when the apocalypse didn’t arrive, but maintained...
View ArticleAntioch Drowning Victim Insisted God Was Across Reservoir
ANTIOCH (CBS/AP) – Investigators have said a Florida man who drowned in a Antioch reservoir insisted that God was on the other side and tried twice to get across even though he could not swim. The body...
View ArticleRapture Preacher Suffers Stroke At Alameda Home
ALAMEDA (CBS/AP) – The radio preacher who predicted that the end of the world would take place last month has suffered a stroke. Harold Camping, 89, was hospitalized after suffering the stroke Thursday...
View ArticleAlameda Rapture Predictor Losing Radio Show After Stroke
ALAMEDA (CBS/AP) – The weekday Christian radio show hosted by failed apocalypse predictor Harold Camping, who suffered a stroke earlier this month, is being taken off the air. Camping’s Family Radio...
View ArticleEast Bay ‘Rapture’ Preacher Moved To Nursing Home After Stroke
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – The East Bay radio preacher who predicted the world’s end on May 21 has been moved to a nursing home, where he is recovering from a stroke he suffered last month. Harold Camping’s...
View ArticleEast Bay Preacher Apologizes For False Doomsday Predictions
ALAMEDA (CBS/AP) – A California preacher who foresaw the world’s end last year is acknowledging for the first time that his apocalyptic prophecy was wrong. In a missive posted on his independent...
View ArticleEnd May Be Near For Oakland’s Apocalypse-Predicting Christian Radio Network
OAKLAND (CBS/AP) – Judgement day may finally be at hand for a California evangelical radio network used by a preacher to predict—incorrectly—the apocalypse. Oakland-based Family Radio has sold its...
View Article‘Researcher’ Predicts Doomsday Again, Now Says It Will Be April 23
CBS Local — A Christian numerologist is apparently living by the motto, “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” After striking out on his predictions that the world will end in September and...
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