Today there are 16 million Southern Baptists and 42,000 churches. Old Bethel's 1806 founding preceded the Southern Baptist Convention, formed in 1845, of which it later became a part.

A 3-month-old boy drowned in the bathtub of a Kentucky hotel room on New Year’s Day, police said. Officials investigate the infant’s death.

Five adults where arrested when police found a 2-year-old child in a Carrollton home locked in a wood and metal cage, Kentucky cops said.