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 ...

The Louisville Metro Police Department covered up about 740,000 records documenting sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two former officers, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Explorer ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former Louisville Metro Police officer has sued the department over retaliation he allegedly faced after reporting a teenager's harassment complaint against Kenneth Betts as part ...

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 ...

Nearly five years after the first lawsuit was filed, Metro Louisville has agreed to pay $3.65 million to seven former scouts who say they were sexually abused in the police Explorer program, their ...

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