Tennessee:

After spending the two weeks of a two-year sentence in the Knox County Jail for rape, former Dyersburg High School volunteer track coach Timothy Byars appeared in a courtroom here on Friday and entered a guilty plea for attempted sexual battery. The plea marks the end of a 20-month case, in which the former Spring Hill Baptist Church music and youth minister was accused of raping a 14-year-old girl before a Knoxville track meet in November 2006.

Pennsylvania:

A former youth pastor accused of embezzling more than $68,000 from a McSherrystown church plans to take her case to trial. Katrina Wischmann, 40…. allegedly embezzled more than $68,000 from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 414 Main St., while working as a youth pastor there for four years.

Florida:

A jury convicted former youth minister Joshua Rosa of first-degree murder Monday in the strangulation of his 13-year-old neighbor. Within minutes, a judge sentenced the 22-year-old to life in prison.

Ron Tomlinson, the father of victim Stephen Tomlinson, shook and cried when the verdict was read. “I’m so glad this is over,” he said. “I can move on now.”

California:

Former St. Helena High School coach Herschel Sandler was sentenced to nine months in the Napa County jail and five years probation Tuesday for two counts of oral copulation with two girls younger than 18 years of age 10 years ago….

Sandler coached the girls’ varsity volleyball team at the high school and the boys’ wrestling team at the high school and middle school between March 1995 and October 2007 when he resigned. He also was a youth pastor at St. Helena Catholic Church.