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<p>COUNCIL, Va. — a rain-swollen creek broke through a culvert and swept away five mobile homes, and two young children were missing and feared dead.</p> <p>The children were torn from their parents' arms after the culvert holding back Laurel Branch Creek gave way Thursday afternoon.</p>

Amber Alert Issued for 13 Year Old Illinois Girl Posted: Wednesday 11/12/03 11:15 AM CST The Peoria Illinois Police issued the Amber Alert for the girl after she went missing from her home early Monday morning November 12. Yesenia Olivares is an Hispanic female, 13 yrs., 5', 130 lbs., long black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing blue plaid pajama pants, white T-shirt with GIRLS on front and a gray sweater. She went missing from her home in Peoria Illinois early Wednesday morning the 12th. Police are looking for Juan Olivares an Hispanic male, 35 yrs., 5'05",...

Amber Alert Issued for 6 Year Old Cape Coral Florida GirlPosted: Saturday 11/01/03 9:27 PM CST The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued the Amber Alert after the girl was abducted in Cape Coral on Saturday morning. Catherine Barnes The girl was abducted in Cape Coral,FL on Saturday November 1. She is a black female, 6 yrs., 3' 06", 89 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing turquoise shorts and shirt. Police are looking for Franklin Smiley, black male, 32 yrs., 5' 7", 160 pounds, black hair, brown eyes. The vehicle is a 2004...

Terri's brother, Bobby, just reported that Terri is MISSING!! He has been waiting all day to see her, he got the green light, and she's gone... News 9 reporter said she's gone back to hospice, but the family does not know where she is and has NO CONFIRMATION. BREAKING...

A lot of people have been searching for this individual so I thought that posting this could bring up some clues. I think it is a long shot but I informed the relative that I would try my best Sometime in 1985, Tom mysteriously disappeared and has not been seen since. At the time of his disappearance, he was residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Statistics on Tom: Date of Birth: May 13, 1936 Place of Birth: Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii Japanese-American male Current Age: 67 years old Height: approximately 5 feet 8 inches Weight: approx. 175 - 190 lbs....

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<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A soldier who guarded suspected terrorists at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has disappeared, U.S. military officials said Thursday.</p> <p>Also Thursday, U.S. military officials announced that Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller will assume control of the detention mission next month.</p>

After months of scouring Africa, U.S. investigators have all but concluded that the 727 jetliner that mysteriously disappeared after departing from an Angolan airport in May crashed or was taken to a remote hangar to be stripped for parts. U.S. intelligence officials had expressed fears that the 153-foot, 200,000-pound aircraft might have been stolen by terrorists for use as a weapon against Western targets in Africa. But an examination of satellite photographs and visits to dozens of African airfields failed to yield any evidence that it is on the continent, leading U.S. officials to largely discount the terrorism scenario.

FALFURRIAS, Texas (AP) -- Casimiro Naranjo III has some new memorabilia for his U.S. Marine scrapbook that chronicles the nine months he spent in Japan in 1957. It's all from the wallet he lost almost 50 years ago. Members of a Japanese construction crew renovating the theater at Camp Foster, once Camp Hague, found the leather wallet in May among some mud and rubble. The wallet apparently was in a ventilation duct at the Okinawa base where Naranjo was stationed as a 19-year-old. "It's so hard to believe that the wallet was there for so many years," Naranjo said in...

Time goes on for others, but our time has stopped. Words cannot explain the total devastation of our world ... -- from a poem by Katrina Nash's parents The last time Dottie Nash saw her daughter, the 15-year-old girl was on an Olympia hospital bed, trembling and twitching from a sudden onset of acute psychosis. Reluctantly, the worried mother agreed to leave the room only after nurses promised to watch the girl. But they didn't, court records say, and Katrina Nash ran away -- never to be seen again. Now, seven years later, the state Court of Appeals has told...

LOWELL, Mass. - Two college students who vanished from Cape Cod last month have been found safe and sound in Florida, leaving family members relieved but still baffled by the two-week mystery. The family of 21-year-old Justin Gouveia of Lowell heard the news late Saturday morning as they were passing out leaflets in the Yarmouth area, where the couple was last seen. ``We talked to him, we heard their voices, we told them we love them and we'll just wait for them to come back,'' Leanne Gouveia, Justin's mother, said at a news conference later Saturday. Justin Gouveia and Danela...

Senate Democrats in New Mexico missing home By NATALIE GOTT Associated Press Writer Aug. 6, 2003, 9:43AM Away from home, her children and husband, the maternal emotions in Sen. Leticia Van de Putte kicked in recently. The Senate Democratic Caucus chairwoman was in Albuquerque, where she and 10 other Democrats are staying in their boycott of the Texas Senate, when she learned that her 21-year-old son, Henry, on Saturday announced his plans to join the lay ministry, the first step in becoming a priest. "It was pretty emotional for me ... I'm not there for this incredibly momentous occasion in...

<p>More details have emerged about the information provided to the FBI by the woman accused of calling an Indiana couple and falsely claiming to be their long-lost daughter.</p> <p>Donna L. Walker, who was being held by Kansas authorities in lieu of $100,000 bail, provided tips to authorities about child pornographers.</p>

(IsraelNN.com) The search will continue this morning for the missing American yeshiva student, 19, who vanished after traveling to the northern Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Sunday morning for prayer services. The search efforts are concentrating in the Meiron and Tzfat (Safed) areas.

Widespread searches were carried out over the weekend for 18-year-old Dana Bennet from Tiberias who went missing in the early hours of Friday morning after finishing a late-night waitress shift at a restaurant in the city. Hundreds of police and volunteers, including horsesriders and owners of jeeps and all terrain vehicles (ATV), took part in the searches on Saturday that were focused on an area between Moshav Migdal and the Maghrar intersection, north of Tiberias. Senior officers, headed by Norther Region police chief, Commander Ya'acov Borovsky held a meeting at the Zvulun station in Kiryat Haim on Saturday evening to...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Gary Aldrich, former FBI agent and best-selling author, accuses the Clinton administration of failing to "connect the dots" to prevent the September 11 terrorist attacks in his new book, "Thunder on the Left." His latest book is a follow-up to his blockbuster about the Clinton White House, "Unlimited Access" that detailed, among other things, a disdain for established security protocols by the Clinton administration that Aldrich claims had disastrous results. In a chapter titled, "Go Ahead and Blame Clinton - I Do!", Aldrich writes that the attacks were "a continuation of an assault on the United...

<p>Police: Caller to Indiana family may be daughter who vanished in 1986 at age 6 By Associated Press, 7/29/2003 10:00 THORNTOWN, Ind. (AP) A woman has contacted the family of a 6-year-old girl who vanished in 1986, saying that she may be the girl, authorities said.</p>

The IDF and Israel police have just announced that they have found the body of Cpl. Oleg Shaikhet, 20, of Upper Nazareth. Shaikhet went missing last Monday after leaving his base at IDF Northern Command headquarters in Safed. In a statement just released, police say that trackers and volunteers had discovered a body buried in open land this afternoon between Kfar Kana and Mash-had, near Nazerth. They believe that the body is that of Shaikhet. Police forensic teams are now conducting an extensive investigation as to what happened to the young soldier. No other details cannot be divulged at this...

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. - In 1994, archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert rode around northern Turkey in a dirty white Toyota van looking for evidence of ancient civilizations around the Black Sea. Every time he and his team would ask locals for the whereabouts of centuries-old ruins, they'd get the same response. "Everyone kept pointing us to the sea," Hiebert recalled. Hiebert knows now why they did. After some preliminary trips, the University of Pennsylvania professor and other scientists will go on a first-ever effort to excavate ancient ships and a possible human settlement left mummified in the Black Sea's oxygen-free waters. Scientists hope...

The man, according to BBC Journalist Andrew Gilligan, to have told him that some parts of the so-called 'dodgy dossier' has gone missing, according to Sky News.