Karen McPherson, serving a life sentence in the kidnapping of Carrie Lawson, briefly escaped work release but was quickly recaptured.

Karen McPherson was serving time for the first-degree kidnapping of Jasper lawyer Carrie Lawson from her home in 1991.

Police in Stockton arrested a man who allegedly robbed a business and held an employee against her will inside the establishment, the department said Sunday.

A South African woman has gone on trial charged with kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter in a case that gained ...