Since the iPhone launched more than two years ago, a handful of crime-fighting tools have emerged among the thousands of innovative apps. They give ordinary citizens the capability to sleuth and guard themselves against crime. Users can conduct a background checks or avoid walking through a high-crime area.

Georgetown County Sheriff’s investigators said Thursday that they arrested a registered sex offender on sex charges involving a 14-year-old victim, including exposing her to the HIV virus.

Applications for the apple iPhone usually fall into the categories of games and entertainment. But a new top selling app is serving a more serious purpose.

Haylee Donathan, the 4-year-old Ohio girl who vanished more than three weeks ago, was found alive Tuesday in the company of her mother and her boyfriend—a fugitive sex offender.

The Supreme Court will review a federal law allowing convicted sex offenders deemed “sexually dangerous” by the government to remain in prison even after they have completed their sentences.

An additional charge has been filed against a former Lee County sheriff’s deputy who police say forced a 9-year-old child to perform sex acts on him at gunpoint.

A former Lee County sheriff’s deputy who police say forced a 9-year-old child to perform sex acts on him at gunpoint has been arrested.

A South Carolina judge has started hearing arguments on whether a convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty to
raping and strangling a Clemson University student should get life in prison or the death penalty.

The convicted sex offender acquitted on charges of raping two teenage girls in an underground bunker says they shouldn’t be allowed to testify at his sentencing hearing on a gun charge.