SEMINARY AGREES TO PAY $300K

Seattle’s Mars Hill Graduate School has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a harassment and discrimination lawsuit brought by one of its founders. Heather Parkinson-Webb, the first female professor at the seminary says she was fired after she was granted a restraining order against her then husband, Kirk Webb. Both are founders of the school. She says the school knew that her former husband had an affair with a student but failed to dismiss him. He has since left Mars Hill.