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Tracey Marie Breure, age 16, was last seen on Saturday, July 16th, 2005 after leaving work at the Super-Valu in Osceola, WI. She was driving a white, 1996 Ford Taurus, WI plates 124-JHN. She is believed to be in the company of Ryan Anthony Hall, age 20 of 124 Main St. Luck, WI. It is not known if she left of her own free will or not. Any help you can provide in getting the word out would be greatly appreciated. http://www.tacticstc.com/tracey/ Anyone with information should contact the St. Croix County Sheriff's Department at 715-386-4701 and us at 715-497-5731. Thank...

CAMDEN, N.J. — Three boys who suffocated in a car trunk last month were alive for at least 17 hours, slowly succumbing while police searched their neighborhood, a lawyer for the family of one of the boys says. Lawyer Peter M. Villari told The New York Times that officials of the Camden County prosecutor's office went over details of an autopsy report with him, the newspaper reported Tuesday. The boys, ages 5, 6 and 11, disappeared from the yard where they were playing a little after 5 p.m. on June 22. Their deaths were ruled accidental. Relatives searched for the...

Mountain Brook High School graduate Natalee Holloway went missing May 30 during a senior trip to Aruba. AP photo

THE SEARCH: Army troops set up camp after a patrol in Kunar on July 1 From the Magazine | Dispatch A crackle in the brush. That's the sound the Afghan herder recalls hearing as he walked alone through a pine forest last month. When he looked up, he saw an American commando, his legs and shoulder bloodied. The commando pointed his gun at the Afghan. "Maybe he thought I was a Taliban," says the shepherd, Gulab. "I remembered hearing that if an American sticks up his thumb, it is a friendly gesture. So that's what I did." To make...

I have a friend who works with a Texas state agency that deals with missing people. To say they are frustrated by the amount of coverage Natalee Holloway, the runaway fiancee, Laci Peterson, etc., generate, while the families they work with are ignored by the MSM, would be an understatement. To quote her (she does read and post on FR, however she has deliberately refrained from participating in these missing persons discussions since it's close to her job): I can survey 20 people on the street, about a missing teen from Alabama, and many will immediately name Natalee Holloway. If...

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) A Bronx man who moved abroad after the September 11 attacks was among those missing in London after the transit bombings there. According to his friends and relatives, 37-year-old Michael Matsushita, formerly of the Riverdale section, has not been heard from since Thursday when he left for work. He normally takes a subway that passes through London's King's Cross station, the site of one of three of the train bombings. Matsushita's fiancee, Rosie Cowan, told The Evening Standard of London that they met while working as international tour guides in Vietnam, and recently moved together to...

July 9, 2005 -- A globetrotting Bronx man is still missing in the London terror attacks and feared dead by friends and family who waited in vain yesterday for word of his fate. Michael Matsushita, pictured here in the loving arms of his British girlfriend, Rosie Cowen, has not been seen since she said goodbye to him at their London apartment Thursday morning - as he set off for the doomed Piccadilly subway line that exploded near King's Cross station and killed at least 21 passengers

The convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping two children in Idaho wrote about a missing Minnesota girl on his Weblog, and investigators are now looking into whether he might have had anything to do with her disappearance. On his Internet diary, Joseph Edward Duncan III wrote in early 2004 that he was afraid he'd be blamed for the disappearance of 5-year-old Leanna "Beaner" Warner. The little girl was last seen June 14, 2003, after leaving her home in Chisholm, some 190 miles east of Fargo, N.D., where Duncan lived. Chisholm Police Chief Scott Erickson said Friday that investigators are trying...

Mountain Brook High School graduate Natalee Holloway went missing May 30 during a senior trip to Aruba. AP photo

CHARLES CITY, Iowa — A young girl found dead in a river is believed to be a 5-year-old whose disappearance last week prompted a frantic search, authorities said Thursday. Searchers found the body about 7:40 p.m. Wednesday in the Cedar River (search), a couple of miles from little Evelyn Miller's (search) home in Floyd, Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer said. A positive identification was pending but Dettmer said it's believed the body is Evelyn, who disappeared last Friday. An autopsy was planned. Dettmer also said contrary to earlier reports, no arrests had been made and the investigation was continuing. The...

A latent but growing resentment here became evident for the first time when more than 200 people, some wrapped in Aruban flags, said they were incensed by statements made by the mother of a missing American teen. Those assembled outside the colonial courthouse in this Caribbean capital Tuesday night said they fear their tiny island nation is falsely being portrayed as not doing enough to find Natalee Holloway, the Alabama girl who vanished May 30 on a graduation trip with her high school class.

Tue Jul 5, 7:05 PM ET A search is on for a Hungarian-speaking parakeet that escaped its owners' summer home last week. Peetuka is a 4-year-old blue parakeet, said owner Carol Mezofi, of Queens, N.Y. "It was a hot day and we were sitting on the porch. My mom opened the door to go inside and he flew out," she said. "We tried to lure him back in and we stayed up all night but he didn't come back. We cried for a few days I don't think we'll find him now unless we get lucky." Mezofi and her husband...

Search Continues For Missing 7-Year-Old BoyAuthorities Believe Child Left Home Voluntarily POSTED: 11:01 am EDT July 5, 2005 WILLIAMSTON, Mich. -- The search for a missing 7-year-old boy suspected of running away from home entered its fourth day Tuesday after police and hundreds of volunteers failed to find him over the holiday weekend. Authorities believe Ricky Holland voluntarily left his house in Williamston, about 15 miles east of Lansing in Ingham County, after his parents put him to bed on Friday night. He was reported missing Saturday. The Ingham County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday that authorities continued their search for...

Last Updated: Monday, 4 July, 2005, 18:36 GMT 19:36 UK   Two missing US troops 'are dead'   The US launched a major hunt for the missing men Two of the three US special forces soldiers missing in eastern Afghanistan for almost a week have been found dead, US government sources tell the BBC.The whereabouts of the other team member remains unclear, while a fourth soldier was found alive on Saturday. The governor of Konar province has spoken of reports that an American is being cared for in a remote village. The US launched a major hunt for the...

Are Amber Deahn and Ashley Smith excellent and calm women who did the right thing under pressure. I think so. The similarity seems interesting. The alert waitress spots missing 8-year-old girl in COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho at a Denny's restaurant around 2 a.m. Saturday. She felt something about the child's face was familiar. Amber Deahn kept the girl occupied until police could arrive at the restaurant. She told ABC News yesterday that one of the things she did to keep the abductor in the restaurant long enough for police to arrive was to read the dessert list ......... very, very slowly....

Troubling Questions Surround Case of Idaho Girl Found After Six WeeksBy Nicholas K. Geranios Associated Press Writer Published: Jul 3, 2005 COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - A day after missing 8-year-old Shasta Groene turned up with a registered sex offender at a Denny's restaurant in her hometown, investigators struggled with a troubling question: What happened to her 9-year-old brother Dylan? The man with Shasta, Joseph Edward Duncan III, was arrested and charged with kidnapping, but he has requested a lawyer and is refusing to talk to authorities, Kootenai County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said Sunday. Duncan won't be appointed a...

KABUL, Afghanistan, July 3 - One member of a four-man Navy Seal reconnaissance team has been rescued after his group were reported missing in a mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan last week, a senior Defense Department official said today.

By Mike Weland Eight-year-old Shasta Groene, who has been missing since her mother, brother, and her mother’s boyfriend were bludgeoned to death May 15, is alive and being cared for at Kootenai Medical Center, Coeur d’Alene, after a waitress at a Coeur d’Alene Denny's Restaurant recognized her just shortly before 2 a.m. this morning.Spokane’s KXLY News 4 has been covering the event since shortly after it began unfolding. Joseph E. Duncan III, 42, Fargo, North Dakota, who entered the restaurant with Shasta, is in custody and has been charged with kidnapping. Shasta’s brother, Dylan, 9, was not with the two,...

Dutch Sending Jets to Find Missing Teen By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago Aruba's Attorney General Karin Janssen speaks to the Associated Press in her office in Oranjestad, Aruba, Friday, July 1, 2005, regarding the case of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch) ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Holland will send three F-16 warplanes rigged with search equipment to find Natalee Holloway, Aruban authorities said Saturday, as U.S. lawmakers increased pressure on the Aruban government to do more to find the Alabama teenager nearly five weeks since she disappeared. The three planes, equipped with infrared and sonar-scanning...

FLOYD, IA — A massive search resumed on Saturday for 5-year-old Evelyn Miller. Ten investigators from the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation were interviewing anyone connected with the small child, including those living in her apartment building, said Sheriff Rick Lynch. "We need to rule everyone out," he said at noon Saturday. "Right now, we have no clue what happened to her." More than 100 volunteers from all over northeast and north central Iowa searched the corn and soybean fields surrounding the apartment building, located two miles south of Floyd. Search planes and even horses from Osage were being utilized....