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HACKENSACK – Two decades after a convicted sex offender lured a 7-year-old named Megan into his house with the promise of seeing a new puppy, then killed her, the law that bears her name remains broadly popular, but gets mixed reviews. Megan’s Law was proposed within days of the murder of Megan Kanka and signed into law on Oct. 31,

A Montgomery County judge has signed orders that would allow Texas to reclaim two violent sex offenders banished a decade ago to Utah and Virginia, where they committed new sexual offenses. State District Judge Michael Seiler on Tuesday signed writs of attachment for Lloyd Joseph Wilson, 44, and Melvin Cody Whipple, 58, ordering that they be placed back in Texas’

he memory of the break-in still stirs terror three decades later: The Rockville woman was ordered out of bed at knifepoint by a teenage burglar, who commanded her to stare out a window as he started to take off her robe. Before anything else could happen, the woman’s husband, who had been tied up in the bathroom, broke his bonds

SIOUX FALLS, SD -There could be a sex offender living near you and you may not even know it.  The number of sex offenders living in Sioux Falls has nearly doubled in recent years. That’s despite changes in the law removing the youngest offenders from the nationwide sex offender registry. In 2010, South Dakota lawmakers created a tiered registry that

A registrant’s mother, whose son is incarcerated at the Federal Detention Center in Miami is looking for someone who can drive her. She is an elderly woman who does not drive on the highway. She lives in Southeast Broward and would need transportation to FDC in Downtown Miami and back. Taxis have been costing her a couple hundred dollars because

A new City Club of Portland report recommends loosening the sex offender registration requirements for juveniles so only those considered at high risk of committing new crimes would have to register with police annually. Oregon is one of 38 states that include juvenile felony sex offenders in their sex offender registries and one of six that include them on the