Crime News

Are children more likely to be abducted today than in the past? Given the nonstop coverage of such crimes in the national media, you might assume the answer to be yes. A look at the statistics, however, shows that the U.S. has actually become a safer place for children over the past decade.

An unemployed mother of five is arrested in connection with two bank robberies, and authorities say she is believed to have participated in at least two more. Neighbors say they never would have suspected the 37-year-old mother to have done such a thing. "She must have been very desperate," an acquaintance says.

A Florida man is arrested after police say he repeatedly called 911 and asked the operator for sex. Joshua Basso allegedly tells police that after he ran out of cell phone minutes, 911 was the only number he could call.

Officials are crediting two teenage girls with stopping a child molester. Nichelle McKinney, left, and a friend saw a man touching a child in a Portland, Ore., movie theater and alerted adults. The man ends up drawing a 15-year prison sentence.