- 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,...

- 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...

A 21-year-old woman who helped GOP donor Anton Lazzaro sex traffic underage girls at "every step of the way" was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison. Gisela Castro Medina, 21, recruited six girls to have sex with now 32-year-old Lazzaro, documents say. The two met in May of 2020 on a sugar daddy website; Castro Medina brought a 16-year-old girl to Lazzaro's condo at the Hotel Ivy, and Lazzaro paid them $600 for sex. 

Former California Highway Patrol officer, Brian Pardue, was sentenced Wednesday morning to a year in jail, two years probation and he must register as a sex offender for attempting to meet a minor for sex in 2020.