
Minn. State turns coaching mess into perfect year
It's been a season of heartbreak and hope, adversity and achievement, stunning in both the worst and best of ways. And it's not over yet for Minnesota ...

Future of cleared Mankato football coach uncertain
A Minnesota college football coach said he wants to return to work now that a judge has dismissed prosecutors' claims that video he took of his ...
Order lets Boy Scouts keep new abuse files private
The Boy Scouts of America will not immediately have to turn over 27 years of so-called "perversion files" the group keeps on sexual abuse complaints ...
AP: Exchange student sponsor out over abuse claims
An organization has lost its government designation to bring foreign exchange students to the United States after facing allegations of mismanagement ...

NH couple arrested at Fla. parade after boy burned
Moments after they watched a parade at a theme-park in Orlando, Fla., a New Hampshire couple suspected of beating and burning the woman's 3-year-old ...

Police: Slain Ark. girl was suffocated, raped
A 6-year-old Arkansas girl who was the victim in an abuse case last year and was found dead this past week in a vacant house in her neighborhood was ...

Texas millionaire charged with child molestation
Stanley Marsh 3, the eccentric millionaire artist best known for his "Cadillac Ranch" art display along an interstate in the Texas Panhandle, was ...

Texas out to seize Warren Jeffs' polygamist ranch
Texas wants ownership of Warren Jeffs' massive ranch where prosecutors say the convicted polygamist sect leader and his followers sexually assaulted ...

Awareness, enforcement help reduce child sex abuse
Increased public awareness of how child predators operate, along with better law enforcement and policies to protect children, may be helping to ...
Dutch gov't: suspects must decrypt computers
The Dutch government says it is planning to make it a crime for a suspect in a child sex abuse or terrorism case to refuse to help decrypt a computer ...

Sweeping changes suggested for Pa. child abuse law
Pennsylvania should enact sweeping changes to its child abuse laws, including stronger penalties for failing to report the crime, a legislative ...

Arrest in death of Ark. girl in prior abuse case
A 6-year-old girl who was at the center of a high-profile child abuse case that sent her father and stepmother to prison was killed last week by ...

Murder trial starts in Fla. foster child case
The foster parent of 4-year-old Rilya Wilson abused the girl for months before finally smothering her, and then lied to child welfare workers who ...
School officials: Ark. girl joyful despite abuse
Jersey Bridgeman endured a lot in her young life, including abuse at the hands of her father and stepmother, but school officials say she was still ...