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More than 125 people and two helicopters search in national park. Concern for a missing park ranger grew Monday as an intensified search failed for the third day to find any trace of Jeff Christensen. "We've got nothing," said Scott Sticha, information officer with the Rocky Mountain National Park. "If one of the dogs even turns their heads, we're on it. But we've got nothing." More than 125 searchers joined the effort Monday, more than double the number searching the day before, and two helicopters swept overhead. "The only thing that we have ruled out is lightning," Sticha said. "He...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Two fishermen found a laptop computer at the bottom of a river that belonged to a county prosecutor who has been missing for 3 1/2 months, police said Monday. The laptop, which was missing its hard drive, was found Saturday in the Susquehanna River under a bridge, Bellefonte police said. The fishermen turned it over to state police who determined it belonged to Centre County District Attorney Ray F. Gricar. Authorities had searched the river several times already. Dive teams searched it again Saturday and Sunday but found nothing else. The computer's hard drive had either fallen...

KHARTOUM, Sudan - A plane carrying the former rebel who ascended to Sudan’s No. 2 leadership post has disappeared after losing contact, a Sudanese Cabinet minister said Monday on state television, contradicting earlier reports. The statement came hours after state television interrupted its regular programming to say that Vice President John Garang “has landed safely at a camp in southern Sudan” after his flight from Uganda was reported missing in bad weather on Sunday. Communications Minister Abdel-Basit Sabdarat said Sudan’s president had ordered the country’s air force to search for the aircraft. Garang, 60, is a charismatic figure whose leadership...

Man Admits Committing Sexual Acts On Child SAN DIEGO -- A convicted child abuser [Actually, he was convicted of committing a lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14.] arrested in Mexico on suspicion of sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl kidnapped from her Nevada home will apparently serve time in a Mexican prison, authorities said Saturday. Lydia Bethany-Rose Rupp was found at about 6 o'clock Friday night at a homeless shelter after a telephone tip led authorities to an address in Ensenada, FBI spokesperson April Langwell said. The suspect, Fernando Aguero -- also known as "Flaco" -- was arrested...

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK (AP) - Park rangers and staff, aided by area search and rescue teams, searched for a second day Sunday for a missing park ranger. Ranger Jeff Christensen was last seen by his co-workers at 11 a.m. at the Chapin Pass Trailhead off Old Fall River Road on Friday at 11 a.m. Christensen told them he was planning a backcountry patrol to the Lawn Lake Trailhead. He did not contact park staff that evening, although he was carrying a radio, and did not arrive for his shift Saturday. A search began early Saturday with more than 25...

A 13-year-old boy from Stamford, Conn., who disappeared from a men's room in Yankee Stadium, has been found in Queens, police said. Hundreds of police and security guards searched for Majelique Lewis after he vanished during a trip to the bathroom during the seventh-inning stretch of a Yankees-Angels game, police said. His mother immediately reported him missing to security, who notified police about an hour later, about 10:05 p.m. A search of the stadium, including parking lots, restricted areas and locked rooms, was fruitless, police said. Officers also searched nearby fast-food restaurants and train stations without results. But police say...

NEW YORK (AP) _ A 13-year-old boy from Stamford, Conn., was missing Saturday afternoon after he disappeared from a men's room Friday night on his first trip to Yankee Stadium, police said. Hundreds of police and security guards failed to find Majelique Lewis after he disappeared during a trip to the bathroom during the seventh-inning stretch of a Yankees-Angels game, police said.

On July 30, 1975, former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa stood outside the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, impatiently scanning the parking lot.  The man who had made the Teamsters the most formidable labor union in the country was already angry.  It was quarter after two in the afternoon, and the men he was supposed to be meeting for lunch hadn’t arrived yet.  Hoffa was a stickler for punctuality, and it was his understanding that they were to meet at 2:00. Wearing a dark blue short-sleeve shirt, blue pants, white socks, and black Gucci loafers, Hoffa walked...

Police in Philadelphia are searching for a 24-year-old pregnant woman who has been missing for more than a week. Latoyia Figueroa was last seen on the afternoon of July 18 in the area of 59th and Walton. Figueroa, a 5-foot-2 African American, is five months pregnant and has a 7-year-old child. She has long, dark brown hair and brown eyes and two tattoos -- an angel on her right wrist and her daughter's name on her left arm. Police said Figueroa usually makes many calls a day from her cell phone, but her phone has not been used since she...

STAMFORD, Conn. — The night a newlywed vanished from his honeymoon cruise, the sounds of a loud party were coming from his stateroom, followed by male voices arguing on the balcony and then a "horrific thud," a fellow passenger says. The ship was in the Mediterranean Sea when Connecticut resident George Smith IV disappeared more than three weeks ago. No one has been charged, but Connecticut's top federal prosecutor said Tuesday that the 26-year-old's disappearance is being aggressively investigated and reports of blood on the ship raise concerns. The comments are the first by a U.S. prosecutor on the case...

Reports are slowly filtering out about a plan by Islamics to detonate several nuclear bombs around the continental United States. Osama bin Laden has lovingly named this attack “America’s Hiroshima.” His logic for giving his plan this name is that the United States is the only world power to use an atomic weapon against an enemy and based on that, it is legal and within Islamic law for him to use such weapons against the American people. According to reports obtained from captured Al Qaeda agents and documents they were carrying, several nuclear devices may have been brought across the...

Sierra Turner-James, who turns 3 next month, was taken early Sunday by Michael James, police said. The 2-foot-5, 60-pound Sierra was last seen on Dorado Drive in Kissimmee and is believed to be in danger, authorities said. She was last seen wearing a pink T-shirt and a pink skirt. Michael James, whose relationship to the child wasn't immediately announced, is 5-foot-9 and 190 pounds. From the Kissimmee Police Dept. News Release: ….The suspect, identified as 28 year old Michael Ruben James, allegedly broke into the apartment through a kitchen window. The noise of the breaking glass alerted an adult male...

Amber Alert Issued for 8 Year old Nevada Girl Posted: Saturday July 23, 2005 10:06 AM CT The Lion county Sheriff's office and the state of Nevada issued the Amber Alert after the child was abducted Friday. Lydia Bethany-Rose Rupp 8 year old female. She's 4 feet 9 inches tall, 85 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. The suspect is Aguerro, Fernando P. (AKA Gonzales, Fernando) who is a Hispanic male approximately 48 years of age. He is 6 foot 1 inch tall and 175 pounds. He has black and gray hair and brown eyes. He's slim build with...

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