crimes against children

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE - Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The president of Michigan State University announced his resignation Thursday,…

By BARRY HATTON - Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The head of a lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic…

By TERRY SPENCER - Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz began their…

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Within what's known as the secure transport industry, it's called “gooning.” Brawny men show up under…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — Their spiritual leader is behind bars in California after pleading guilty to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and urged one to become his sex slave pleaded…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A vegan woman convicted of murder in the malnutrition death of her young son must wait a bit longer to learn her sentence.Sheila O'Leary, 38, whose…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A vegan mother who said she and her family followed a strict diet of only raw fruits and vegetables faced sentencing on Monday in the malnutrition…

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors in Northern California filed murder charges against the parents of a 15-month-old toddler who died in May after she ingested fentanyl…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man pleaded not guilty on Monday in Ohio…