By AP
Cape Cirardeau, MO – The Reverend Larry Rice will get another chance to obtain a former federal building to serve the homeless and needy in southeast Missouri.
The Southeast Missourian reported Thursday that a federal judge has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to vacate a decision denying Rice's bid for his New Life Evangelistic Center to take over the former federal building in Cape Girardeau. The judge's order requires HHS to re-evaluate the ministry's application.
Opponents of the plan submitted by St. Louis-based New Life say there are not enough homeless people in the Cape Girardeau area to merit use of such a large building.
Cape Girardeau County also hopes to buy the building.
