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 ...

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 pregnant, was found dead ...

At least a dozen teenagers assigned to work with police departments as part of the Boy Scouts' Law Enforcement Explorers program have allegedly been sexually abused by officers during the past year.

Donna and Gary Price of Bettendorf didn’t even know they had a new grandson for the first three years of his life. At the time of the boy’s birth, their son already had a wife and another boy, age 5, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Scout’s Law Enforcement Exploring program has a number of benefits. It gives young men and women the opportunity to explore a career field, like criminal justice. This ...

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on ...

But the Boy Scouts carved out an exception to the “two-deep” rule for police ride-alongs in Explorer programs. Explorers are allowed to ride alone with an officer — though they must be at least 18 to ...

Leila Register / NBC News; Getty Images; Sophie Park for The Marshall Project; Change.org; Scouting.org The last known person to see Sandra Birchmore alive was a police officer. He stopped by her ...