Prosecutors on Monday dropped state charges against a woman in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart in exchange for a guilty plea related to the attempted kidnapping of Smart's cousin. Wanda Eileen Barzee pleaded guilty but mentally ill to one count of conspiracy to commit ...

Court documents allege kidnappers abducted a New Jersey resident thinking he was another man with the same name in a bungled effort to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of a Missouri contractor. Documents filed in Vernon County Circuit Court Thursday say 55-year-old Roy A. Slates ...

A French agronomist who was kidnapped in Chad in November was freed Saturday in Sudan after 89 days in captivity, International Committee of the Red Cross reported. The organization said employee Laurent Maurice "is tired but appears to be in good health." The agronomist was kidnapped Nov. 9 ...

Chinese state media say one person has been sentenced to death and 24 sentenced to prison in nine kidnapping cases. The state-run Xinhua News Agency says two courts in the capital of the southern province of Guangdong handed down the sentences Thursday. Xinhua at first reported that ...