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Saying sex offenders are being forced to choose between prison and homelessness, a Los Angeles judge issued an opinion this week blocking enforcement of provisions a state law restricting how close those offenders can live from parks or schools.

A lack of screening of oil spill cleanup workers may have resulted in a convicted sex offender being charged with raping a co-worker. A CNN investigation into the incident reveals that basic background checks were not done on those hired to remove oil from the beaches in and around Pascagoula.

After the parents of his two murder victims made anguished and angry comments about their loss, registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III was formally sentenced Friday to life in prison without the chance of parole.

New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo backed the e-STOP law under which sex offenders' social networking accounts were terminated. Facebook and MySpace has terminated the accounts of 3,533 convicted sex offenders in the state of New York after they submitted their account information to the state as required by 2008’s Electronic Security and ...

Violator registry is growing as tech-savvy predators put a greater burden on officers.

Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from ...

A registered sex offender from Cleveland has pleaded not guilty to an alleged attack that prompted a search and the discovery of 11 bodies at his home. Fifty-year-old Anthony Sowell appeared in court Friday and entered not guilty pleas to ...

Authorities on Friday released the name of a fourth victim found last week in or around the home of registered sex offender.

During the week before Halloween each year, Lt. Steve Rose of the Sandy Springs Police Department in Georgia knocks on the doors of every registered sex offender in his jurisdiction.