STOUGHTON, Mass. — The last known person to see Sandra Birchmore alive was a police officer. He stopped by her apartment days before the elementary school teacher’s aide, 23 years old and newly ...

In May, prosecutors in Seattle charged a sheriff’s deputy with raping a 17-year-old girl. The deputy met the teenager while he was an adviser in his department’s youth mentorship program known as ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Scout’s Law Enforcement Exploring program has a number of benefits. It gives young men and women the opportunity to explore a career field, like criminal justice. This ...

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