Escaped sex offender recaptured

Escaped sex offender recaptured

A convicted sex offender who escaped from a hospital in St. Louis County is back in prison. Tommy Boyd, 45, is serving a 30-year sentence at the Potosi Correctional Center in eastern Missouri for enticing a child to commit sex acts. He’d been taken to Mercy Hospital...

No attempt made to override veto of sex offender legislation

Legislation that would have given some sex offenders an opportunity to get off the state’s registry has died in the House without an attempt to override its veto. The sex offender registry language was attached to a bill sponsored by Representative Kevin Engler...

Digging operation continues as sex charges filed

A delicate digging operation continues in west-central Missouri as searchers look for evidence, some of which could very well be buried in glass jars, to use against five men accused of abusing young girls in the mid-80s and 90s. This all began when a 26-year-old...