NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY ACT OF 2004 (S. 2154) Why this bill is important: This bipartisan bill seeks to fill a gaping hole...
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SCOTT GUTIERREZ THE OLYMPIAN OLYMPIA — A 42-year-old Seattle man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly attempting to have sex with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl whom he met over the Internet and arranged to pick up outside the Westfield Shoppingtown Capital mall. The suspect made the 60-mile trip in his minivan...
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AIMEE JUAREZ Herald Staff Writer MANATEE – Denise White called the sheriff’s office on a hunch Monday morning. For the past week, the mobile home park manager had received complaints from her tenants at Wayside Glen Community about two 19-year-old men harboring three underage girls inside a trailer. At night, the girls would...
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From Roger Maynard in Sydney A TEENAGED Australian girl thought to be dead after being missing for nearly five years has reappeared during the trial of a man the prosecution said had confessed to murdering her. Natasha Ryan, 18, was last seen in l998 when she was driven away in a car by...
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STAFF REPORT MANATEE COUNTY — Authorities say a 14-year-old girl who was reported missing more than a month ago was found safe Thursday in Tennessee. Investigators grew concerned in late September after the girl’s mother, Denise White, got a call from her daughter. Andrea White, who had run away in August, said the...
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By Kerry Haglund Mariah Washington, nine, got off an airplane in Amarillo chattering with her mother about her first flying experience — the television screens, the peanuts, the plugged ears. Mariah is back in the Texas Panhandle after a five and a half year absence. The girl and her mother, Georgeann Foster of...
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STREATOR — A girl believed missing for almost two weeks has been found safe in Mississippi with her biological mother, and a Bureau County man has been arrested for her abduction. Friday, the FBI announced that agents along with local police in Harrison County, Miss., had safely recovered 13-year-old Tisha McCauley of Streator....
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Kara Fullmer A child who’s been missing from Beaumont, Mississippi for more than two months was found in Topeka Wednesday. Police say 2-year old Gwyneth Van Vleck had been abducted by her father Simon Van Vleck back in October. There was not an Amber Alert issued. Police say Simon Van Vleck took off...
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