GREECE, N.Y. (AP) — The father of two children who were forcibly taken from their western New York foster home and later found in Alabama has been arrested in the kidnapping, police...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Armed pirates attacked a Turkish cargo ship off the West African coast, kidnapping 15 sailors and killing one of them, officials said Sunday as Turkey sought to recover the...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The city government in Albany, New York, has agreed to pay a $200,000 settlement to a woman who was raped in November 2017 after a botched police response to a 911...

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (AP) — A man wanted in the weekend kidnapping of a South Florida family is now in custody in Alexandria, Virginia, police said Monday morning.

WESTON, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say they arrested Sunday an attacker who kidnapped a Florida hospital employee as she arrived at worked and sexually assaulted her.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska man faces federal charges, including kidnapping, after investigators say he made threats to kill a U.S. wildlife officer who cited him for fishing and...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge has denied a request for a probable cause hearing for a New Hampshire man accused of killing his wife's lover and forcing her to decapitate him.

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — The state of Vermont has filed a notice in court to dismiss charges against a former St. Albans police officer and his father who were accused of entering a woman's home and...

BISON, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a Bison man serving 70 years in prison for kidnapping and later raping his estranged wife at gunpoint.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 26-year-old rising local rapper accused in the kidnapping of a South Florida couple in October can go free until his trial if he pays a $250,000 bond, a federal...

BYRAM, N.J. (AP) — A Fort Drum soldier and a 16-year-old boy have been charged in the murder and kidnapping of a 20-year-old soldier found buried under snow in northern New Jersey.

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The chief of staff assigned to I Corps at Joint Base Lewis-McChord is accused of assaulting his wife in front of their children. Owen Ray was arrested early Sunday after a...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two Florida men, including an underground rap artist known as Splash Zanotti, appeared in federal court Christmas day in connection with a home invasion two months...

ADA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said this week it is looking into the death of an inmate who died after a fight with another inmate at the Pontotoc County Jail...

BURLINGTON, N.C, (AP) — Charges were filed against a man who allegedly kidnapped a woman, assaulted her and held her against her will for three days, police in North Carolina said.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Prison officials on Tuesday announced the deaths of three Mississippi inmates.

The state Department of Corrections said Terry Slater, 61, died Tuesday at Central...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been convicted of killing his estranged wife, who went missing earlier this year.

David Anthony, 44, pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Corrections said autopsies are being done on inmates who died in recent days.

The department said in a news release Monday that William...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge could decide Monday whether a woman accused of abandoning a toddler in north Mississippi is granted bail.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen in Nigeria abducted more than 80 Islamic school students in northwestern Katsina state Saturday night, but the pupils were quickly rescued by security forces after...

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (AP) — A fourth person has been charged with first degree murder and kidnapping after a burned body was found in a torched car in the Ozarks, authorities said.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A Scottsdale man is facing a kidnapping charge after allegedly forcing a woman into his car along Interstate 17 south of Flagstaff, according to Coconino County Sheriff's...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Eugene man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of the kidnapping and sexual abuse of a woman, police said.

Eugene Police Department spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin said...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two people from Tennessee have been charged with kidnapping a 2-year-old boy who was found at a Goodwill store in Mississippi, federal officials said Thursday.

PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should be extradited to Michigan, but he will be given a chance to appeal first, a judge...

BOLIVAR, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a man accused of intentionally hitting and seriously injuring a southwest Missouri sheriff’s deputy during a high-speed police chase last week....

NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) — The woman accused of killing a pregnant mom and removing the baby from the victim’s womb was indicted Thursday on murder charges.

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A 34-year-old man has been sentenced to life without parole for a robbery involving hostages at a used car dealership in Parkland.

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut police officer who was struck by gunfir e during a chaotic scene that unfolded as police tried to arrest a kidnapping suspect was shot by a fellow officer,...

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio couple is going to prison for the 2017 death of a boy whose remains were disposed of in garbage bags.

A judge on Tuesday sentenced Romaine Tolbert, 38, to 15 years...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in southern Mexico said Monday they have arrested two suspects for allegedly kidnapping a women in front of her two young daughters, one of whom filmed the abduction...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man was sentenced to death Friday for kidnapping and killing a 17-year-old girl as she walked from school.

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado judge set a $5 million bond on Friday for a man who is accused of kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old girl in 1984.

ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — Bail was set at $1 million for a man suspected of trying to abduct women on three occasions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

CADIZ, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man was charged Thursday with kidnapping and killing an 81-year-old woman and intentionally setting fire to her home, according to state police.

HAYES CENTER, Neb. (AP) — State troopers have arrested a western Nebraska man accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint, then later engaging in an hourslong standoff with police....

PEABODY, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man is in custody after allegedly bringing a loaded firearm to meet someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl.

PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — A woman has been arrested in California in a custodial interference case, according to police in a north-central Arizona city.

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguay's military and police have killed three members of a leftist guerrilla band that kidnapped a former vice president, officials said Saturday.

ROCKINGHAM, N.C. (AP) — A woman jumped from the trunk of a speeding car to escape her captors, and deputies have arrested two of three people wanted in the case, a North Carolina sheriff's office...

DENVER (AP) — A man sought by police after the remains of three people were found near a rural town in southern Colorado was arrested Thursday at a motel in New Mexico.