Sexual Misconduct

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. -- A 17-year-old man from Aurora who was charged last Friday with raping another teenager at a party is now charged with having sex with a girl under age 15 in February.   The second charge against Dillon Carpenter was filed on...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The president of the Missouri State Board of Education has resigned after a second lawsuit accused him of using his position as a pastor to engage in sexual misconduct.   Gov. Jay Nixon announced Friday he accepted the Rev. Stan...

GALENA, Mo. -- The owner of Predator World, a former business in Branson West, is charged with repeatedly abusing two teenagers.   In a case filed by the Stone County prosecuting attorney on Wednesday, Breck Wakefield is accused of regularly having sexual...

MUMBAI/BANGALORE (Reuters) - IT outsourcing company iGate Corp sacked Chief Executive Phaneesh Murthy after a company sexual harassment investigation revealed that he had not disclosed a relationship with a subordinate. Shares of the company fell 13...

In a scandal-ridden time in Washington, recent bombshells about the prevalence of sexual assault in our nation's military probably haven't received the attention they deserves. Last week marked the third recent case of the fox guarding the henhouse....

An activist group angry that police had not warned residents of an East Side neighborhood about a sexual deviant in the area preying on children took matters into their own hands Sunday afternoon and chased down the alleged suspect themselves. Alex...

The Board of Trustees of St. Louis Community College announced Thursday that it has hired the law firm of Armstrong Teasdale to investigate the administration's handling of an assault last month on the Meramec campus. In the assault, a female student...

The leader of the union that represents healthcare employees at Temple University Hospital on Sunday threatened a strike over an arbitration dispute involving a terminated employee accused of sexual harassment. "We're prepared to shut it down," said...

A former Watertown man was sentenced Friday in Jefferson County Court to up to three years in state prison for trying to possess forged checks. George J. Lewis, 32, Barneveld, was sentenced to 1 1/2 to 3 years in prison after an April 10 guilty plea...

Sentences handed down in Sherburne County: October Jason William Underwood, 40; felon convicted of crime of violence -- firearm violation; sentenced to 60 months in prison, stayed 15 years on conditions including a chemical dependency evaluation and...

As if to underscore the scope of the military's sexual assault problem, the Army announced Tuesday that a sergeant in charge of its prevention program is being investigated for abusive sexual contact, assault and other allegations. The investigation...