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Christopher Watts, who is being held without bail, is due back in court on Tuesday morning to be advised of the charges filed against him

Justin Teeter Bensing had been accused of soliciting an undercover officer he thought was a girl

The U.S. Department of Justice opened a federal civil rights investigation into sexual abuse of inmates in July

A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit by news organizations seeking to let media and public witnesses view more of the process of executions

Three former university administrators were sentenced to at least two months in jail for failing to alert authorities to a 2001 child sexual abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky

The plan involved hiding in a bottomless wooden box in a big mound of sawdust from the prison’s woodshop that is hauled away periodically by a local farmer

Herschel Jones’ ex-girlfriend warned police he was “looking to kill a cop”

Gov. Paul LePage said the action would allow inmates to get jobs and wouldn’t threaten public safety because he won’t release sex offenders or abusers

Joshua Shaver just finished his shift at the jail when a woman ran a stop sign and collided with his car

A man convicted of killing four people in Omaha in 2013 has been given Nebraska’s first death sentence since the state’s voters reinstated the punishment in November