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A Florida televangelist is facing charges of domestic violence.

The Bay County Florida Sheriff’s Office posted an incident report alleging that Markus Bishop of the Faith Christian Family Church punched his wife “in the left eye with a closed fist” on March 16th. Bishop’s attorney Waylon Graham says his client “did not intentionally punch his wife” but claims she was intoxicated and was “flailing away at him.” Graham says Bishop will submit a plea of not guilty at his upcoming arraignment. Bishop’s church issued a statement saying, “We are saddened by the recent incidents involving our pastors.”

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The doctor in charge of a Houston medical clinic that CBS News exposed as a pill mill is no longer allowed to practice pain management according to a court order by the Texas Medical Board.

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Here’s an update on Armen Keteyian’s investigation on the failures of social security disability. Scott Watson, who fractured his spinal cord after a failed back surgery, appeared in our story on Monday, January 14. He was turned down TWICE for federal disability, and has been waiting nearly a year. Now we’ve learned just days after our story aired, he’s been approved. He was told our story DID NOT influence the reversal.

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One day after a two-month investigative series revealed the problems plaguing the federal disability program, Rep. Lloyd Doggett,D-Texas, put some tough questions to David Rust, SSA’s deputy commissioner for disability, during a previously scheduled hearing on social security benefits.

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Oral Roberts University eliminated its entire Board of Regents last night declaring a new era of transparent governance and accountability for the financially troubled institution. The new Board of Trustees made up of educators and alumni is in sharp contrast to the old board which was dominated by high profile televangelists including Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, Jerry Savelle, Jesse Duplantis and Kenneth Copeland. Copeland’s son-in-law George Pearsons served as the former head of the Business Board of Regents. Within the last few weeks, Hinn, Duplantis and Dollar left the board citing demands of their ministries.

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During a congressional hearing today in Washington, the Department of Veterans Affairs was asked to step up its efforts to prevent veteran suicides.

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With the long-awaited investigation headed by former Senator George J. Mitchell on the use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball set to be become public as early as next week, CBS News has learned the Major League Baseball Players’ Association will have the ability to review the much-anticipated report before its official release.

According to a high-ranking source within baseball, union officials will be given a “prior read” of the Mitchell Report for an unspecified period of time to determine whether it complies with the current Collective Bargaining Agreement between baseball owners and the players’ association.

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At least one top televangelist is refusing to cooperate with an investigation by the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Charles Grassley.

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Patience with FEMA is running thin up there at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In a three page letter sent today to FEMA Director Henry Paulison, Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Ted Stevens (R-AK) express their “disappointment” with the agency over the testing for formaldehyde that is not happening on the many thousands of FEMA trailers on the Gulf Coast. See the letter here.

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