An investigation was launched after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip about illicit material on a Kik account.

A southeast Missouri man was recently sentenced to prison after recording his criminal sex act with a child and possessing ...

In October, detectives, in conjunction with the Lebanon, Missouri Police Department, began investigating 41-year-old Eric ...

A South Carolina man will spend the next three decades behind bars after a federal judge sentenced him yesterday for a brutal sex trafficking scheme that targeted a 15-year-old girl. Johnny Thiel ...

The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and ...

A Kansas City man who was convicted in Cole County of raping a teacher in the Department of Corrections in 1998 has been designated by a jury as a violent sexual predator.

The Missouri Department of Corrections generated its first report with every prison death in its system. Here’s how to use it ...

Allegations laid out in a federal indictment against former Ray County Sheriff Scott Childers are now backed by disturbing ...

A man who was convicted of rape in Cole County nearly 20 years ago has been committed to the Department of Mental Health ...

Families, sheriffs and providers agree: jail is often the default response to addiction, even as withdrawal can become a ...

State lawmakers are seeking solutions to a growing backlog of jailed Missourians awaiting help from the Missouri Department of Mental Health to move their cases forward.

The former Assemblies of God minister was indicted in Oklahoma after an NBC News investigation revealed decades of missed ...