A federal judge ordered a north Alabama sheriff jailed earlier this week, saying the lawman intentionally served jail inmates “woefully insufficient” meals in order to pocket more than 0,000.

Adam Herrman was about 12 when he was last seen in 1999 in a mobile home park in a rural, south Kansas town. This is what he might look like today. Herrman wasn’t reported missing for a decade. Authorities plan to search a home and a river as they work to solve the mystery.

The officer involved in a New Year’s Day shooting that left a passenger dead in a crowded Oakland, California, subway station has received numerous death threats, a transit spokesman said Wednesday.

“Please have mercy,” Lourdes Batista begged her husband’s kidnappers on Wednesday. Felix Batista disappeared in early December from a restaurant in Mexico — a case that made international headlines because of its irony. The anti-kidnapping expert was kidnapped.

Authorities in Kansas are looking for a boy who disappeared about a decade ago, but was not reported missing until a few weeks ago. Adam Hermann was was seen in 1999 at a trailer park in southern Kansas. He was about 12. Police say they know if Adam Hermann is dead or alive.

Despite a bleak economic environment featuring wide-ranging layoffs and rising unemployment, the nation’s premier law enforcement agency is touting “one of the largest hiring blitzes in our 100-year history.”

Prosecutors asked a judge Monday to revoke bail and jail investment guru Bernard Madoff, who is accused of defrauding investors worldwide out of billions in a Ponzi scheme.

A former Marine and suspected serial rapist pleaded not guilty this week to raping and murdering 19-year-old college student Brianna Denison.

The former parents-in-law of a man accused of killing nine people at a Christmas Eve party were among the remains of six people identified Saturday by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office.

A bus driver’s helper is facing criminal charges after she allegedly overlooked a 22-year-old special needs man, who spent New Year’s Eve alone in a freezing bus depot, police said.