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KURIGA, Nigeria—Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria’s northwest, riddled with Islamic extremists ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Six members of a religious congregation in Haiti and a teacher have been kidnapped while gathered in ...

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y.—A man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from a state park in upstate New York ...

RIDGELAND, Miss.—A Mississippi grand jury has decided not to indict former NFL player Jerrell Powe months after he ...

LONDON—Holly Willoughby, one of Britain’s most high-profile television personalities, announced Tuesday that she is stepping down from her ...

Five men have gone on trial accused of torturing and murdering Mehmet Koray Alpergin—a DJ and owner of ...

A man charged with assisting the leaders of a plan to kidnap Michigan's governor denied any role Monday ...

One of three men accused of assisting a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer testified in his ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—The fate of an American nurse and her daughter kidnapped in Haiti last week remains unknown Tuesday ...

Iranian spies working in the UK threatened to kidnap the children of a female journalist, she has alleged. ...

MEXICO CITY—Prosecutors in Mexico said Thursday they have arrested two more men in the March 3 kidnapping of ...

COMMERCE, Calif.—A man suspected of kidnapping a woman at gunpoint in Commerce was arrested April 26, but the ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Nikese Toussaint was at church, so she didn’t see the text message from her sister. ...

BELLAIRE, Mich.—A Wisconsin man accused of assisting the key figures in a plot to kidnap Michigan's governor pleaded ...

MINOT, N.D.—The nephew of imprisoned Utah polygamous leader Warren Jeffs will be returned to Utah to face charges ...

WEST HILLS, Calif.—A woman has been arrested for allegedly abducting her 19-month-old daughter in West Hills, and the ...

Michigan jurors on Tuesday began deliberations in the trial of three men accused of assisting in an elaborate ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The younger brother of a man suspected in the kidnapping and killings of an 8-month-old baby, ...

SAN FRANCISCO—A baby girl, her parents, and uncle who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their central California business ...

MERCED, Calif.—A man suspected of kidnapping a Sikh family, including an 8-month-old baby, in central California tried to ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A Northern California mother of two was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for faking her ...

Lawyers for two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called investigators to the witness ...

A 55-year-old former neonatologist from Spokane, Washington, has confessed to paying $60,000 worth of Bitcoin to kidnap his estranged ...

By Jacqueline Charles From Miami Herald MIAMI—At first blush, the oversized blue plastic barrels appeared to be shipments ...

A case in Idaho around baby Cyrus being taken from his family by Child Protective Services (CPS) is ...

A federal jury on April 8 acquitted two of the four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan ...

RENO, Nev.—A rural Nevada man accused of kidnapping and killing an 18-year-old Fernley woman last month fatally shot ...