Henry Lyons, who went from top church leader to inmate, dies in Tampa

Dr. Henry J. Lyons, the disgraced former president of the nation’s largest Black religious organization, died Monday in Tampa. He was 83. Lyons, born in Gainesville and ordained a minister in St. Petersburg, reached the peak of his prominence as president of the National Baptist Convention USA in 1994. Those who watched him on the pulpit remember L...