- Tommy Wayne Boyd, a prisoner at Potosi Correctional Facility in Missouri, was taken to Mercy Hospital South for treatment before he escaped early Thursday. - Tommy Wayne Boyd, 45, a prisoner at Potosi Correctional Facility, was recaptured on Watson Road, northeast of Mercy Hospital South, where he escaped, St. Louis County police said shortly after 8 p.m.  - He was recaptured without incident by a county police department team that was following up on a lead, Sgt. Tracy Panus, a police spokesperson, said in an email. - Boyd is serving a 30-year sentence for statutory sodomy,...

Her father was a Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader who shined his shoes on Saturday nights and wore his best suits when he took his wife, Paula Dietz, and their children — Rawson and her brother, Brian — to church on Sundays. Her father, Dennis Rader, the serial killer known as B.T.K. 

- A former volunteer at a York, S.C., church has been sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to improperly touching a child while at church in 2021, according to court records and prosecutors. - Ira James Summerlin, 77, of York, pleaded guilty in York County criminal court Wednesday to third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, said prosecutor Misti Shelton, 16th Circuit assistant deputy solicitor. The crime happened in late January 2021 at Central Baptist Church where Summerlin was a volunteer in a childrens program, Shelton said. The church banned Summerlin from church property after...

- 33-year-old Tyler Selby appeared in U.S. District Court in Gulfport on Tuesday before Judge Robert Myers for an initial hearing. - arrested on federal charges of producing child pornography - was identified by the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom as a person who produced child porn - identified in court documents as a worship leader at a Baptist church in Harrison County - accused of producing a video that shows him in a tub with a young boy committing sexual acts - has been given a public defender and ordered to be held by U.S. Marshals

 - Set to plead guilty to the felony charge of indecency with a child under the age of 14 by sexual contact - a plea bargain with a pretrial diversion which may allow Murphy to avoid having to register as a sex offender - Murphy will have to pay a $500 fee upfront and serve two years of probation. If he completes the program, he will not be required to register as a sex offender. - Murphy would be allowed to pursue having the charges erased from his criminal record and still be allowed to continue preaching. - “Mr. Murphy...