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<p>VAUGHAN — Rebecca Hargon never forgets a birthday. She always sends a card to show she cares.</p> <p>Her husband, Michael, is among the first to volunteer for any situation.</p> <p>"They always put themselves last and everyone else first," said Rebecca Hargon's sister, Elizabeth Moore.</p>

22 sailors missing as two ships sink off Turkey Istanbul, February 13 Twenty-two sailors were missing on Friday after two ships sank off Turkey in heavy snow and gale force winds, which forced the closure of the Bosphorus Strait, a maritime safety official said. Rescuers trawling the stormy waters of the Black Sea had so far found no trace of the 21-strong crew of a Cambodian-freighter which sank earlier on Friday off the northern entrance to the Bosphorus Strait, the official said. "We have been searching for a few hours but we have found nothing so far," he said. Two...

A US reporter based in Moscow, who was last seen near the war-torn republic of Chechnya, has been missing for three days, the US embassy said in a statement on Wednesday. "We can confirm that a US citizen reporter who lives in Russia has been reported missing since Sunday, February 8, in the area near Mozdok, North Ossetia [which borders Chechnya]," the embassy said, without identifying the journalist. Moscow police told AFP that Rebecca Santana of Cox Newspapers has been missing from Moscow since Sunday and they had launched a missing person's investigation.

<p>MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- The family and staff of a Russian presidential candidate filed a missing persons report Sunday, saying he hasn't been heard from for three days, while election officials registered the final two presidential hopefuls.</p> <p>The registrations bring to seven the number of contenders in a race that is widely considered a one-man show due to President Vladimir Putin's overwhelming popularity.</p>

Carlie Brucia has been found by police. 610 WIOD has verified the information. The parents were notified last night and the story is breaking exclusively on 610 WIOD. The news department has confirmed this over the phone. WIOD's Phone number is (954)862-2000

Firstcoastnews.com Police Search For Missing 11-Year-Old Florida Girl By First Coast News Staff SARASOTA COUNTY, FL -- There is an Amber Alert in Florida for a missing 11-year old. Carlie Brucia is five feet tall and weighs 120 pounds. She was last seen on Sunday wearing a short-sleeved red shirt and blue jeans. Brucia has blond hair and blue eyes. Police believe she was taking a short cut home on Sunday, and while walking behind a car wash in Sarasota, a man approached her and grabbed her. Investigators are looking at surveillance video from behind the car wash. It...

Three Soldiers Missing After Non-Hostile Incidents MOSUL, Iraq - Three soldiers under the operational control of the 101st Airborne Division are missing following non-hostile incidents in Mosul today. During a river patrol with local police, four soldiers fell into the Tigris River and one could not be found after the watercraft capsized at 5:15 p.m. Two OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopters conducted a search for the missing soldier, and at approximately 6:40 p.m., one of the search helicopters crashed into the river. The pilots of the aircraft are missing and aircraft recovery actions are underway. Search efforts are still underway...

(Greenwich-AP, Jan. 18, 2004 9:00 AM) ) The owner of a Stratford trucking company is putting out a plea for anyone who might have found 150-thousand dollars worth of airplane parts somewhere on Interstate 95. Condor Air Transport owner David Cleveland tells The Greenwich Time that one of his drivers lost two boxes off his flatbed truck Thursday. One of the boxes was turned in to Greenwich Police and returned, but the other is missing. The driver was traveling south from Stratford to J-F-K International Airport in New York City. The parts were made by Pratt and Whitney and were...

<p>"They don't see any survivors," said Paul Mulrooney, a spokesman for Georgia Express, the Canada-based airline that owned the Cessna 208 Caravan single-engine plane, one of seven in its fleet. "At this point in time, it's looking rather bleak."</p> <p>The Ontario-based air service runs only during the winter, when ice makes the ferries inoperable, Mulrooney said.</p>

<p>Spalding Gray - the wry, anxiety-ridden movie monologist best known for the films "Swimming to Cambodia" and "Gray's Anatomy" - has been reported missing by his wife.</p> <p>The 62-year-old writer-performer, a diagnosed manic depressive, was last seen late Saturday night at his TriBeCa home, law-enforcement sources said.</p>

<p>A missing person bulletin has been issued for an 18-year-old Oakland woman, who was last seen Tuesday leaving her family home and walking toward the Oakland Coliseum BART station.</p> <p>Police investigator Dan Castanho said authorities do not know if Stephanie Coates made it to the station after leaving her house at 6201 San Leandro Blvd.</p>

Still no sign of missing Beagle Beagle 2 vanished during landing Beagle 2's mothership will begin searching for the missing probe in the next few days. Mission scientists said on Sunday that further attempts to contact the British-built lander had failed. They are pinning their hopes on the European Space Agency's (Esa) Mars Express, which will be in position to look for its "baby" on Wednesday. The news came as the US space agency Nasa celebrated the safe landing of its Spirit rover on the Red Planet. It sent back images of the rocky, barren surface of Mars within hours...

Up to 20 Missing in Southern California Mudslide By Ben Berkowitz SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - At least ten and as many as 20 people were still missing here on Friday morning after waves of mud up to 12 feet high overran a camp in a local canyon, fire officials said as rain and cold weather hampered search efforts. Officials of the San Bernardino county fire department were forced to call off their search in Old Waterman canyon shortly after 1 a.m. PST (4 a.m. EST) because of inclement weather and conditions made worse by wild fires here two months...

Body Found: Could Be Man Missing Since 1990 12-5-03 - Deputies with the Cooke County Sheriffs Office uncovered human remains Thursday night that may reveal some answers in a decade long mystery. Law enforcement began digging in the back yard of a home on county road 163 in the town of Oak Ridge after receiving a tip that the remains of Randel Pardue may be buried there. Pardue has been missing since April of 1990. Authorities had already ruled his disappearance a homicide but were never able to find the body. Deputies continued their investigation Friday morning. They started pulling...

FWD E-Mail: Please find attached information regarding the disappearance of a 17 yr old Loudon county girl. My husband, Jim, works with Christa's father. This is the second case of a disappearing 17 year old girl that we have become aware of in the last 4 days. In both cases, the girl's car was found with the keys in the ignition. The 2nd girl's father works with a friend of ours and she was a local (Columbia area) girl. Her body was found in a ravine not too far from her car. The car was found in a turn lane...

Police find body that could be missing teen By: JASON REEVES , Staff Writer 12/13/2003 CHESTERFIELD - The search for Marquis Anton Jobes, the 13-year-old boy missing since the October murder of his mother, may have come to a tragic conclusion. Authorities recovered the body of an unidentified juvenile yesterday in Richmond that they believe could be the missing child. The remains were located during the early morning hours in a wooded area behind the Kmart at 6807 Midlothian Turnpike, police said. No cause of death was released by police and few details of the find were made public. Authorities...

<p>A 17 Year old Loudoun County girl has been missing since Friday, December 12, 2003. Christa was last seen Friday morning at Dulles Town Center Mall in Sterling, Virginia. She had driven to the mall in a 1993 green Ford Escort Wagon and developed car trouble along the way. She arrived at the mall at approximately 10:00 am, went in to pick up a package and was seen as very distraught by associates in the mall. She was given directions to a local auto parts store in Sterling and left the mall with her package. She has not been seen since.</p>

PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- Face-scanning technology designed to recognize registered sex offenders and missing children has been installed in a Phoenix school in a pilot project that some law enforcement and education officials hope to expand. Two cameras, which are expected to be operational next week, will scan faces of people who enter the office at Royal Palm Middle School. They are linked to state and national databases of sex offenders, missing children and alleged abductors. An officer will be dispatched to the school in the event of a possible match, said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. "If it works...

A U.S. newspaper says dozens of rockets armed with radioactive warheads are missing from a separatist region in the former Soviet republic of Moldova. The Washington Post in its Sunday edition cites unnamed U.S. and Moldovan officials, as well as weapons experts as saying 38 of the so-called "dirty bombs" have disappeared from military arsenals, and that they likely are for sale on the black market. Weapons experts say the former Soviet Union used the rockets, a type known as Alazan, for weather experiments. They were stored in military arsenals in Moldova and in that country's Transdniester region. The predominantly...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Hundreds of volunteers streamed into the University of North Dakota's hockey arena early today to join the search for Dru Sjodin, a 22-year-old UND senior missing since Saturday night. The volunteers were given identification badges and assigned to teams to search for Sjodin, who police believe may have been abducted. ``I was up all night, because I've just been itching to get out and do this,'' said Jerrod Arneson, one of the volunteers. ``You never think something like this would happen here, and when it does, you want to do something.'' Michelle Vogt said she lived...