• Osteen to Speak at Dallas MegaFest Conference 2013

  Joel and Victoria Osteen are scheduled to speak at MegaFest, a three-day festival to be held in Dallas, Tx. The couple will speak in a joint session at the conference, which will be hosted by megachurch leader T.D. Jakes in late August.

  

• 40 Psychiatric Patients Escape Kenya's Mathari Mental Hospital

  Forty psychiatric patients escaped from Mathari Mental Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday. More than half of the 70 men who tried to escape succeeded, overpowering the guards at the main gate and climbing over the walls of the facility.

• The Death of Kendrick Johnson

  Kendrick Johnson was found dead earlier this year, wrapped up in a wrestling mat at a high school in Valdosta, Ga. The young African American athlete had suffocated after falling head-first into the standing mat, officials say.