Lawyers

• Valentine’s Day Marks 17 Years of Unsolved Disappearance of North Carolina Girl

  This year's Valentine's Day marks 17 years since Asha Degree vanished from her bedroom in her family's home at Shelby, North Carolina.

• Arrest of Pedophile Who Raped Over 500 Girls Prompts Indian Minister To Call For Sex Offender Register

  Maneka Gandhi, the minister for woman and child department addresses the urge of implementing a national register record for criminals in India, especially sex offenders after the arrest of a convicted pedophile.

• Swedish doctor charged after plan to lock woman in bunker 'for years’

  A Swedish doctor is facing rape and kidnapping charges for abducting a woman whom he had kept inside a sound proof bunk and intends to keep for years. The doctor had confessed all the allegations against him but is requesting to lower down his charges.

• Judge denies gag order in rape case against Virginia abduction suspect

  A Virginia judge denied a gag order request on Friday in a rape and attempted murder case against Jesse Matthew, the man also charged with abducting Hannah Graham, a Virginia student whose body was discovered in October on a farm after a five-week search.

• Five arrested in India over kidnap and gang-rape of Japanese tourist: police

  Indian police have arrested five men in connection with the alleged abduction and gang-rape of a 23-year-old Japanese tourist, officials said on Saturday.

• University of Virginia suspends fraternal organizations in assaults probe

  The University of Virginia is suspending all fraternal organizations until January after a magazine article described in detail an alleged sexual assault that occurred on the campus, the school said on Saturday.

• Grappling with protests, Mexico president urges swift judicial reform

  Embattled President Enrique Peña Nieto called on Mexico's states on Friday to swiftly adopt steps to modernize the justice system as he tries to defuse mass protests over the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers.

• Pope laments 'murder' of missing Mexican students

  Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his sorrow at what he said is clearly the murder of 43 missing Mexican students, though the government has yet to officially declare them dead after their abduction and apparent massacre in the southwest of the country in late September.

• Fugitive Mexican mayor suspected in abduction of 43 students captured

  Mexican police on Tuesday captured a fugitive former mayor and his wife suspected of being the probable masterminds behind the abduction of 43 student teachers feared massacred in September, officials said.

• Virginia remains identified as those of missing college student

  Human remains found in Virginia were identified on Friday as those of missing university student Hannah Graham, and prosecutors are focusing on more charges against the suspect in her disappearance, authorities said.

• Suspect in UVA student's disappearance returned to Virginia

  A man arrested in Texas for the abduction of a University of Virginia student was returned to Virginia on Friday to face charges, while newly released records showed he was the focus of a 2002 college rape investigation but was never charged in that case.

• 10-Year-Old Girl Found Alive: Kid Found Alive At Northridge Starbucks After Being Abducted 12 Hours Earlier (Video)

  A 10-year-old-girl was found alive yesterday after being abducted nearly 12 hours earlier from her Northridge, California home. Police are now on the hunt for two male suspects believed to have forcibly abducted her from her bedroom on Wednesday's at about 3:30 a.m.

• Women Hid Boy for 8 Years: 2 Texas Women, Mother and Daughter Sentenced

  Two women, mother and daughter, Gloria Walker, 51, and Krystie Tanner, 27, were sentenced to prison on Tuesday after being convicting them of kidnapping a Houston boy when he was 8 months old, hiding him for eight years before he was found.

• Alabama Hostage Standoff Over, Child Safe After 7 Days in the Bunker

  After seven days in a bunker, Alabama authorities have killed a gunman and abductor who was holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in rural Alabama on Monday.