Joly Germine declined to say anything before U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington, D.C., sentenced him.

Most of the hostages were held at gunpoint for 62 days. They won their freedom after a $350,000 ransom was paid.

BERLIN, Ohio (WJW/AP)– Christian Aid Ministries, based in Berlin, Ohio, held a brief news conference Thursday morning on its 17 missionaries who were kidnapped in Haiti. Just hours later, there was a ...

A former missionary with an Ohio-based ministry has been indicted on federal charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with four different minors in Haiti over multiple years.

The FBI is still working to rescue 17 missionaries in Haiti as a notorious gang holds them hostage. The gang now wants $17 million as ransom for the group, according to a top Haitian officials. U.S.