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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two American troops and an unknown number of civilian contractors are missing in Iraq after an attack on a fuel convoy west of Baghdad, a Defense Department official said on Friday. "We do have the two U.S. service members unaccounted for, and an unknown number of contractors," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. No other details of those missing were immediately available. Witnesses at the scene of the convoy attack said at least nine people were killed. Several vehicles were ablaze and overturned. A Reuters photographer on the scene said the convoy included U.S....

Baby Who Disappeared From Hospital Found BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - A day-old baby girl with respiratory problems who was taken from her mother's hospital room was found unharmed Friday 150 miles away. Police used footprints to identify a baby found in an alley in Bowling Green as Grayci Jean Barrows, reported abducted from a hospital in Stanford about 4 a.m., State Police Trooper Nick Stephens said. The baby, umbilical cord still attached, was brought to the Medical Center at Bowling Green after a passer-by found her in an alley behind Grandma's Attic, a consignment shop here. Lequetta Dolbeare, an...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., 11:11 a.m. EDT October 6, 2003 - The search continues for an Iona College student, missing since Tuesday. Police in New York and New Jersey are looking for 21-year-old Danielle McGuinn. McGuinn lives in White Plains. She was last seen at a Mobil gas station on North Avenue in downtown New Rochelle just before midnight, Tuesday. The following day, her white 2002 Ford Explorer was found on the shoulder of the New Jersey Turnpike southbound between exits 16 and 17 with the keys locked inside, but McGuinn was nowhere to be found. For her family, this is...

Amy Seiler found alive and well, police are searching for a gunman/suspect. Live images of police searching a parking lot.

KIEV - The Ukrainian Defense Ministry cannot find evidence that it had dismantled its decommissioned missiles, Ukrainian Defense Minister Yevgeny Marchuk told reporters. “Unfortunately, there are ‘exotic’ things when we are looking for several hundred missiles that have been decommissioned, but we cannot find them," he said. “The missiles are said to have been dismantled,” Mr. Marchuk noted, adding that such missiles contained silver, gold, and platinum-group metals. “Where are the results of the dismantling?” he asked. There was no common accounting system in the Ukrainian armed forces before Mr. Marchuk was appointed Defense Minister in June 2003. An inventory...

KIEV, Ukraine -- Several hundred decommissioned Soviet-built surface-to-air missiles are unaccounted for in Ukraine's military arsenal, the defense minister told a newspaper. Defense Minister Yevhen Marchuk, in an interview published in the newspaper Den, appeared to suggest the missiles may have been dismantled without proper accounting, rather than stolen or sold. "We are looking for several hundred missiles," Marchuk was quoted as saying in Thursday's edition. "They have already been decommissioned, but we cannot find them". Marchuk didn't specify the types of missile. Defense Ministry spokesman Kostyantyn Khivrenko told The Associated Press that he was referring to S-75 air defense...

Ukrainian Defence Minister Yevhen Marchuk has said that several hundred of his country's missiles are unaccounted for. The weapons were supposed to have been decommissioned in the years that followed the break-up of the USSR. But it is now being claimed that there is no record of them being destroyed. This is being blamed on accounting problems during the period of transition that followed the country's independence in 1991. We are currently looking for several hundred missiles - they were decommissioned, but we can't find them "We are currently looking for several hundred missiles. They were decommissioned, but we can't...

Coast Guard searching for missing helicopter in Gulf 09:59 AM CST on Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Associated Press HOUSTON - The U.S. Coast Guard was searching the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday for a missing helicopter that had 10 people aboard. The chartered helicopter was en route from Galveston to an oil exploration ship about 130 miles east of South Padre Island. The helicopter's last radio transmission came from the pilot just after 7 p.m. Tuesday when it was about 90 miles south of Galveston. "We are hoping that something went wrong and they maybe...

<p>BLOOMINGTON, Illinois (AP) -- Rescue crews searched five states Tuesday for a plane carrying six people who were returning to Illinois from a weekend NASCAR race in South Carolina, authorities said.</p> <p>Civil Air Patrol crews flew over the projected flight path of the private, single-engine plane, covering parts of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Illinois.</p>

Missing Woman's Family Says HIPAA Rules Blocking Search 38-Year-Old Woman Missing For Months POSTED: 5:20 pm CST March 22, 2004 UPDATED: 9:13 pm CST March 22, 2004 LAWRENCE, Kan. -- A Lawrence couple searching for their missing daughter says the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is blocking them from important information that could help them find their daughter, KMBC's Emily Aylward reported. HIPAA is the law that keeps patients' medical records private. The bill was introduced in 1996, but wasn't strictly enforced until 2003. Marilyn Anderson and her husband have been searching for their 38-year-old daughter since she...

SOUTH FAYETTE, Pa. -- Pennsylvania state police on Wednesday afternoon confirmed the recovery of a car belonging to a missing West Virginia woman, Channel 4's Shiba Russell reported. Tricia Cartisano, 26, of Morgantown, was last seen heading south on Interstate 79 toward Wheeling, W.Va., where her parents live. She had been staying in Wheeling for the quicker commute to her job at the state office building in downtown Pittsburgh, Russell reported. Cartisano's black Chevrolet Cavalier was found with its hazard lights blinking around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday near an I-79 rest stop in South Fayette, not far from the Bridgeville exit....

SEATTLE (AP) - Controversial internet ads sponsored by John Kerry's campaign for the US presidency have abruptly gone missing from their host web sites. The ads feature footage and audio of American helicopters in Vietnam as a testament to Kerry's war credentials and aptitude to manage the nation's defenses in a time of international conflict, while playing the audio of an undated anti-war speech given by Kerry in the 1970s. Republican spokesman Ed Connely says that Kerry's campaign has "hushed [the ads] up." The ads, which debuted over a year ago during the opening stump days of the Democratic primaries,...

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Coast Guard Finds Life Raft in Gulf; No Sign of Missing Boaters Feb 29, 2004 The Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - The Coast Guard recovered a life raft Saturday from a missing fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico but found no sign of the two boaters who departed from the Florida Panhandle and have been missing for days. Capt. Don Jones and a crew member, identified by friends as Pensacola resident Ida Fitzgerald, last made contact with the Coast Guard on Monday when their 37-foot fishing boat, the Sara B, was caught in a storm about 40 miles...

Person in Custody; Search Warrants Issued in Case of Missing Family in Rural Mississippi Feb. 28, 04 By Jack Elliott Jr. / Associated Press Writer TAYLORSVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Investigators moved on what appeared to be the first big break in the search for a missing couple and their young son Saturday as officers took someone into custody for questioning and searched a southern Mississippi veterinary clinic. Highway Patrol and Smith County authorities closed off a county road on both sides of the Leaf River Veterinary Services. The clinic was given as a residence address by Earnest Lee Hargon, an...

MISSING SINCE 11/18/03 Phil Sheridan, age 54. From Portland, Oregon. Phil has been missing since November 18th. At the time he disappeared, he had pneumonia and might not be himself (he left his medication behind). He stands 5-foot-10-inches tall, weighs 155, has brown hair with a touch of gray, has a goatee/moustache, and usually wears glasses and a ball-cap. His wife, children and friends are worried about him and want him back. A missing persons report, #03-16391, is on file with the Gresham Police Department. *NEW INFORMATION: Phil Sheridan's car, a 1987 tan Toyota Carolla, license SYZ-153, was found buried...

<p>VAUGHAN — Friends and relatives of Michael and Rebecca Hargon wept and prayed for answers Friday night.</p> <p>About 70 people gathered at Ellison United Methodist Church for a short prayer service. They watched as three candles were lighted in honor of the missing couple and their 4-year-old son, James Patrick.</p>

<p>February 20, 2004 -- Remember "Missing," the 1982 movie by left-wing director Costa-Gavras, which starred Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek? The hit film accused the U.S. government of complicity in the disappearance and murder of a young New Yorker in the days following the 1973 military coup that toppled Chile's Marxist president, Salvador Allende, from power.</p>

US authorities have arrested the mother of a 17-year-old boy, who saw his picture on a missing children's website and discovered that he was allegedly abducted from Canada 14 years ago. Acting on a Canadian-issued warrant, US marshals arrested Giselle-Marie Goudreault, 45, at her home in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. She was being held without bail until Canadian authorities can extradite her on child abduction charges, authorities said. Goudreault "was shocked and very emotional" during the arrest on February 11, said Jimell Griffin, a deputy US Marshal in Los Angeles. The boy's father had custody of his...

A trailer with Oklahoma tag number 4205CN is missing from a plant in Henry County, just south of Atlanta. Henry Co. PD has just notified surrounding agencies, and are looking for help...This is just breaking on television; details to come.