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Pastor Accused of Throwing Firebomb, Senior Survives Jump in Front of BART Train, Driver in Crash Missing

Man beaten after confronting noisy revelers last year is making slow recovery.

By Genevieve Bookwalter

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Perhaps after taking the idea of a fiery sermon a bit too literally, a pastor was arrested Friday on suspicion of hurling a Molotov cocktail into a house with six sleeping people. No one was injured and there was only minor damage to the home. 

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On its website, the Fellowship Baptist Church in Vacaville describes Mark Lewis as a pastor who “preaches with a zeal and excitement for the things of God, a heart for the people of God, and a burden for the lost souls dying and going to hell.”

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