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'Fats' Domino Missing By Roger Friedman Many of New Orleans' jazz luminaries haven't been seen since Katrina hit 'Fats' Domino Missing in New Orleans Thursday, September 01, 2005 By Roger Friedman Before NBC, MTV, or anyone else puts on a telethon to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, they might want to explore some ancillary issues. To wit: New Orleans is a city famous for its famous musicians, but many of them are missing. Missing with a capital M. To begin with, one of the city’s most important legends, Antoine “Fats” Domino, has not been heard from since Monday afternoon. Domino’s...

The whereabouts and safety of all but two of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast clergy have been confirmed, according to the diocese’s canon to the ordinary. But Hurricane Katrina has demolished at least six of the 10 parishes in the Coastal Convocation. The Rev. Canon David Johnson reported that the diocese has had no word from a priest and deacon, but communications remain “difficult” as electricity and telephone services were down across the state as far north as Jackson. The Rev. Canon John Macdonald, assistant professor of mission and evangelism at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, told TLC he had been in...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - At least 20 oil rigs and platforms are missing in the Gulf of Mexico and a ruptured gas pipeline is on fire after Hurricane Katrina tore through the region, a US Coast Guard official said. "We have confirmed at least 20 rigs or platforms missing, either sunk or adrift, and one confirmed fire where a rig was," Petty Officer Robert Reed of the Louisiana Coast Guard told AFP. All of the missing rigs were in the Gulf of Mexico, Reed said citing Coast Guard overflights of the area and information from oil companies. He could not confirm...

For four and a half months, the identity of the "Piano Man" remained a mystery to the world. He was found on a beach in England and spent months in the hospital. Now, the details are emerging: Andreas Grassl was a young man who desperately wanted to flee his suffocatingly provincial home town in the Bavarian forest. He was also trying to escape life as his family lived it. In summer 2000, the newspaper of Robert Schumann High School -- in the Bavarian town of Cham -- started a new column: "Burn - the List of My Enemies." The author,...

LOOKING FOR INFO ON THE "GUEST HOUSE OF SLIDELL" NURSING HOME

Missing Person Search The above line contains thousands of posts from people looking for friends and loved ones. I hope this helps. God Bless the people of New Orleans

A number of websites have been created to help survivors get in touch with their families, and vice-versa. Currently, you can check the following sites :Hurricane Katrina Survivor Check-InKatrina Survivors DatabaseNew Orleans Pundit Missing and Found Bulletin BoardHurricane Katrina Help WikiThank you.

Hello all in the Gulf coast area, Our prayers go to you all. We all know what your going through as all 7 families here in Florida went through Betsy and the 3 hurricanes last year here...God Bless you... I represent the 7 families here looking for our beloved Arieux family that resided at 153 Carr Dr in Slidell, We understand that nothing is left there, but we have not heard a word from George and Jean Arieux....Our searches on the internet and calls to the Red Cross get us nowhere right now.. We just want them to know they...

Atlanta Constitution has a link for people to leave messages for people they are looking for. Here There is also one on the New-Orleans Picayune Times website. Here

Police in Montreal are searching for an Iraq war veteran from Fayette County and his friend from California who have been missing since Monday morning. Officials in Canada told family members that the last known contact with Mark Robert Kraynak, 23, of Uniontown, and Steve Wright, 20, of California, was a mobile phone call they made at about 3 a.m. Monday to a third friend, Deric Manzi, letting him know that they were in a cab headed for an after-hours club outside of Montreal. The two missing men and Manzi, all bodybuilding models, were expected to meet their manager at...

Missing music producer found alive Grammy-nominated Chris Julian discovered naked, washing clothes in creek MSNBC News Services Updated: 3:07 a.m. ET Aug. 27, 2005 LOS ANGELES - The nearly weeklong search for a Grammy-nominated producer ended Friday after a resident spotted the man sitting naked in a backyard creek, washing his jeans. The Topanga Canyon resident found a distraught Christian Julian Irwin saying he feared he was being pursued by Nigerians who had contacted him in an Internet scam, sheriff’s Capt. Ray Peavy said. /snip Authorities began looking for Irwin on Sunday after he made a panicked phone call to...

By TIM MOLLOY, Associated Press Writer Sat Aug 27, 8:55 AM ET LOS ANGELES - The nearly weeklong search for a Grammy-nominated producer ended Friday after a resident spotted the man sitting naked in a backyard creek, washing his jeans. ADVERTISEMENT The Topanga Canyon resident found a distraught Christian Julian Irwin saying he feared he was being pursued by Nigerians who had contacted him in an Internet scam, sheriff's Capt. Ray Peavy said. Peavy said there was no evidence anyone was actually pursuing the 48-year-old producer, who has worked with Carly Simon and David Bowie, among others. Irwin was taken...

HAVANA (AP) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro claimed Friday that U.S. policies were responsible for the latest tragedy to befall Cubans trying to reach American shores - 31 people believed killed in the Florida Straits. The Cuban are missing and feared dead after their overcrowded boat capsized, officials said. President Fidel Castro appeared on state-run television to point the finger at an American law that allows Cubans to apply for permanent residency if they reach the U.S., saying it encourages dangerous, illegal migration. "Lives have been lost for the last 40 years since they created that law," he said, referring...

The former chairman of Air America Radio, Evan Montvel Cohen - who former colleagues said engineered transfers of more than $800,000 to the liberal radio network from a boys and girls club in the Bronx - is missing, according to a lawyer who is trying to have him served with legal papers. At least two people have said Mr. Cohen is in Hawaii. He has not responded to a series of e-mail messages in recent weeks from The New York Sun asking him about his role. Mr. Cohen, 39, helped lead the launch of Air America in March 2004. Less...

APPLE VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Scout Taylor-Compton, star of the recent teen comedy Sleepover, has been missing from her California home for nearly two weeks, officials and her publicist said Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the San Bernardino Sheriff said the young actress was likely a runaway. The 16-year-old was last seen at home on Aug. 12, according to a statement released by her family.

The search is on in southern California for a Grammy-nominated music producer who mysteriously vanished after phoning a friend to say he was being chased by people with dogs. Christian Irwin, 48, of the Topanga area of Los Angeles, was last heard from Sunday morning when he phoned a friend at 3:45 a.m. to say he was pursued through a ravine. Police said he had lost his glasses and shoes in a nearby creek. "He really felt like he was running for his life," John Riolo, Irwin's brother-in-law, told KNBC-TV. "And, if he felt like he was running for his...

PITTSBURGH -- Ten minutes.The time between dinner and dessert in the home of Charles and Mary Ann Kozakiewicz. The time it took the couple's 13-year-old daughter, Alicia, to vanish on New Year's Day in 2002.Mary Ann Kozakiewicz had been clearing dishes from the table when she saw her daughter leave the dining room. Alicia told her she was going to her room. By the time an apple-walnut pie had been laid out, she was gone. Her family found no note, no sign of a break-in. On one of the coldest nights of the winter, Alicia's jacket remained in the closet....

Coast Guard investigating disappearance of Olivia Newton-John's boyfriend LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Coast Guard says it is investigating the disappearance of Olivia Newton-John's longtime boyfriend, who failed to return from an overnight fishing trip off the California coast seven weeks ago.  Patrick Kim McDermott, 48, left San Pedro, 20 miles south of Los Angeles, June 30 on an overnight fishing trip. The Los Angeles Police Department said McDermott has been listed as missing.  Coast Guard officer Nathan Henise told The Associated Press Monday that McDermott was last seen on the fishing vessel and that his personal items were found...

Ohio Woman, 20, Missing More Than a Week Monday, August 22, 2005 A young Ohio woman has disappeared without a trace near the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, according to the Ohio News Network. Julie Popovich, 20, of neighboring Reynoldsburg, disappeared more than ten days ago from an off-campus bar she had visited with friends, the network said. She was last seen at about 1 a.m. on August 11th outside Ledo's Bar (search) on North High Street near the university, getting into a car with a man her friends did not recognize. According to the police report, her friends...

Judge Mystery Tammany Hall-Era Figure Disappeared 75 Years Ago, Prompting Decades of Speculation — ABC News has learned New York City detectives have obtained the first new evidence in 73 years in the disappearance of a New York State Supreme Court judge once dubbed "the most missingest man in America" by the city's tabloid newspapers. On Aug. 6, 1930, Judge Joseph F. Crater stepped off a midtown Manhattan curb and into a cab after seeing a Broadway play with his showgirl girlfriend. He was never heard from again. It was long suspected — but never proven — that he was...