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ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. – West Feliciana Parish sheriff’s deputies have arrested a Louisiana State Penitentiary social worker on one count of aggravated rape involving an inmate. Sheriff’s Capt. Spence Dilworth said Thursday that 32-year-old Gary Dewayne Midkiff of Baton Rouge is accused of using threats of violence on Oct. 7 …

TOPEKA, Kan. – A state senator wants to know if the Kansas social services department had any contact with an 11-year-old boy who went missing a decade ago but whose disappearance wasn’t reported until this month. Adam Herrman disappeared from his home in Towanda in 1999. His disappearance came to …

SAN FRANCISCO – In the first major census of people living on the streets since the recession, thousands of volunteers across the country are fanning out in the thick of night this week to count the most desperate members of their communities. On the streets and in shelters, volunteers conducting …