HESSTON, Kan. (KSNW) – On Wednesday, Hesston College held a service in remembrance of United Nations worker Michael Sharp or MJ. Sharp was working toward peace in the Congo before he was kidnapped and ...

Michael Sharp, son of John Sharp and Michele Miller Sharp of Hesston, was one of six people kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Courtesy photo Three bodies have been found in a Congo ...

Michael Sharp believed in the power of persuasion. The 34-year-old Kansan with the round face and a penchant for plaid shirts would walk, unarmed, deep into rebel-held territory in the Democratic ...

An American was abducted while working as a United Nations official in central Africa, his father told NBC News on Tuesday. Michael Sharp, 34, was among a team traveling by motorcycle through the ...

Congolese authorities have obtained a video appearing to show the murder of two foreign U.N. experts by a tribal militia. The video was shown to reporters in the capital Kinshasa on Monday after ...

Editor's note: This post about activist Michael Sharp was originally published on January 2, 2015. On Monday, March 13, the government of Congo announced that Sharp, now a U.N. official, his colleague ...

In court, they were known only as Jane Doe 1, 2, 3 and 4; the four women who were kidnapped and attacked by the same man in the summer of 1984, when their lives — and traumas — became irrevocably ...

Michael Sharp was not only Cincinnati Ballet's fiercest Captain Hook, he was also the funniest. And when he took on the outlandish drag role of Mother Ginger in "The Nutcracker," even the stagehands ...