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 ...

DEPARTMENT IS BRINGING BACK A PROGRAM GEARED TOWARDS HELPING TEENS DEVELOP LIFE AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS. IT’S CALLED POLICE, EXPLORERS. AND JADE JARVIS EXPLAINS HOW IT WORKS AND HOW YOUR KIDS CAN GET ...

In May, prosecutors in Seattle charged a sheriff’s deputy with raping a 17-year-old girl. The deputy met the teenager while he was an adviser in his department’s youth mentorship program known as ...

The US Border Patrol’s community outreach efforts can verge on the macabre. For instance, agents at the Ajo station in Arizona, who patrol the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants, ran a Teddy ...

The Getzville Explorers is made up of 17 local students from schools including Hutchinson-Central Technical, Williamsville South, Sweet Home and Williamsville North. Once they’re eligible to join the ...

One minute, 18-year-old Austin Boudreaux and a firefighter mentor were reviewing the tools on a truck at Fire Station #7 on Kaliste Saloom Road. The next, the teen and the station’s crew were hauling ...

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