Kentucky:

A Nelson County grand jury has indicted a youth minister with manslaughter, wanton endangerment, and unlawful transaction with a minor. The charges against Ronald Derek Coulter come in the death of 13-year-old James Mitchell. On June 24, WAVE 3 reported that Coulter allegedly allowed Mitchell to drive the SUV the two were in when it crashed during an overnight youth outing on June 6. Police say Coulter, the youth minister of Big Springs Assembly of God Church in Bloomfield, originally told them and the family that he was the driver and a deer caused him to swerve.

Tennessee:

Allegations that a former youth minister embezzled $73,000 from a Shelbyville church will be presented to the Bedford County grand jury next Monday, according to a Shelbyville police detective. Charles Lohn, the former youth minister at Shelbyville Mills Baptist Church, was brought in for questioning "concerning his involvement in the embezzlement of approximately $73,000 from the church," Detective Sgt. Brian Crews said..

California:

A Yuba City man convicted of assault with an Uzi pistol at the Allyn Scott Youth and Community Center in Marysville testified Monday that the gun went off when he was grabbed from behind. Alexander Ray Warren, 24, was scheduled to be sentenced in Yuba County Superior Court for the March 2008 shooting that wounded three people.... Warren wrote in a letter to the court that he "gave his life to the Lord" while in jail after the shooting and feels a calling to be a youth pastor.