Local officials in a town near Pittsburgh are accusing a reverend and his wife of running a swingers sex club in a house of worship. John and Kim Ondrick of Huntingdon Township facilitate nature worship at the Church for Spiritual Humanism, located in a residential area.

Only one house in the coastal town of Gilchrist in Galveston County, Texas survived Hurricane Ike and remained standing after the storm passed the area last week. The home of Warren and Pam Adams was elevated 14 feet above ground by strong wooden columns which helped it withstand Ike's 110 mph winds and avoid floods that wiped out all other homes in the beach.

Police in California seized hundreds of pot plants, $384,000 in cash and arrested six people in connection with marijuana grow houses. Eight warrants were served Tuesday and marijuana plants were found at indoor grow operations in two large, well-maintained upscale suburban homes in El Dorado Hills and Placerville. The other warrants were served in Cameron Park - where marijuana growing equipment was found - and in Placerville, Lincoln, Sacramento and Elk Grove.

Eight members of a satanic gang have been arrested in Russia for stabbing to death four teenagers, then roasting and eating parts of the victims' body in a demonic ritual. Russian police said gang leader as Nikolai Ogolobyak led the murders of Anya Gorokhova, Olga Pukhova, Varya Kuzmina and Andrei Sorokin, who were aged between 16 and 17, inside a rural cottage near his apartment in the Yaroslavl region of Russia, 300 miles northeast of Moscow.

Elisabeth Fritzl, the woman who was locked in a cellar for 24 years by her father, who raped her and fathered her children, has spoken out about what her life was like while kept prisoner by her domineering father. In an interview with an Austrian judge, Elisabeth, 42, said that her father, Josef, raped her at least three times a week for all those years. Of the seven children he fathered with her, three lived in the cellar, while three were chosen by Josef to be raised in the house by he and his wife. One child died in infancy, and Josef reportedly incinerated the baby's corpse.