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(KSL News) -- Search and rescue teams have found the seven-year old boy who was missing this afternoon outside of Kamas. Sheriff Dave Edmunds says the boy was found not far from the camp. He says he had just become disoriented on his way back to camp. The boy was apparently herding cattle with his father when he got cold and decided to return to camp, but he never arrived. This search was particularly worrisome with the cold weather, as it has been snowing in the mountains all day. Temperatures are cold and are expected to get colder. The boy...

October 5, 2005 Police investigating the disappearance of Taylor Behl called to scene of dead body Police investigating the disappearance of a 17 year old V-C-U student are examing remains found in Mathews County. Published reports say the remains have not been identified, but the task force working on the Taylor Behl case is on the scene. Behl was last seen September fifth. The remains were discovered in a grave behind a barn on an isolated piece of private property in the sparsely populated county, located about 50 miles east of Richmond.

The Richmond police task force investigating the disappearance of Virginia Commonwealth University student Taylor Marie Behl has discovered the remains of a body in rural Mathews County. Sources close to the investigation said the body has not been identified. It was discovered in a shallow grave behind a barn on an isolated piece of private property just west of Diggs, a community along the Chesapeake Bay just south of Rigby Island. The area is about 70 miles east of Richmond. A law-enforcement source said police were led to the scene by a photograph identified by an ex-girfriend of a man...

Police want more information about Taylor Marie Behl, and today they're turning to a multijurisdictional grand jury to help them get it. Behl, a Virginia Commonwealth University freshman, disappeared Sept. 5, less than two weeks after the start of classes. Sources close to the criminal investigation into her disappearance told The Times-Dispatch that the grand jury, which typically meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, agreed to meet today, in part to hear evidence on the Behl case. The number of witnesses subpoenaed to testify could not be determined last night. The convening of the grand jury...

MAYPORT, Fla. (NNS) -- Three Sailors from Naval Station Mayport’s Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron (Light) (HSL) 44, who were killed when their helicopter crashed off the coast of North Carolina Sept. 25, have been identified as: Lt. Robert L. Elortegui, 32, pilot, of Miami, Fla. Lt. Thomas Brantley, 27, pilot, of Ahoskie, N.C. Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 3rd Class Nestor L. Oterolebron, 27, of Caguas, Puerto Rico. The helicopter lost communications while conducting deck landing qualifications off the coast of North Carolina as part of the Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group Sept. 25 at 10:50 p.m. A search and rescue operation was...

It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying "toxic dart" guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing. Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill...

(09-29) 9:24 PDT FORT ROSS -- The body of a Santa Rosa motorcyclist missing since Sept. 19 has been found along with her bike several hundred feet down a cliff off Highway 1 in Sonoma County, police said. Melinda Moore, 40, an avid biker and student at Santa Rosa Junior College, had last been seen by her fiance when she left the Santa Rosa home the couple shared. On Wednesday, a caller told police he had found a motorcycle helmet that day that matched the description of Moore's. He found the helmet on a rock alongside Highway 1 about 3...

Valerie, in fresh clothes and clutching a new teddy bear yesterday, was found in Middle Village early Sunday. A 4-year-old girl was found wandering a Queens street in the middle of the night — and city authorities are trying to figure out who she is and why she was all alone. The girl — who has told police that her name is Valerie — was found on 76th Street in Middle Village Sunday at around 1 a.m., according to the city's Administration for Children's Services. She is extremely bright and understands that she is lost. But she was only able...

Skateboards, sex toys, women's undergarments and a box with bones are among the items investigators removed last week during a search of the Richmond apartment of a 38-year-old man questioned in the disappearance of Taylor Marie Behl, according to court documents released yesterday. Detectives also removed cell phones, a machete, a .32-caliber cartridge, discarded clothing and the dirty laundry of Benjamin "Skulz" Fawley -- one of the last people to see the 17-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University freshman before she disappeared the night of Sept. 5.

Police are searching for information on a stolen license plate that may be connected to the case of Taylor Marie Behl, the Virginia Commonwealth University freshman who disappeared on Labor Day. The personalized "GRN ERTH" Jamestown 400th Anniversary Virginia plate was stolen in Richmond about the time the 17-year-old disappeared, police said. "This plate may be connected to the Taylor Behl investigation," said Maj. Peggy Horn of the Richmond Police Department. "At this time, we need additional information to make a final determination." The person from whom the plate was stolen is not connected with the case, police said. Police,...

A man reported missing from a Florida hospital was found in North Carolina dressed like a doctor and driving a stolen ambulance with a dead deer wedged in the back... Leon Holliman Jr., 37, was reported missing from a River Region Human Services facility in Jacksonville last month. "I don't know how the man got it up in there," said Sgt. Robert Pearson. "It was a six point buck." It wasn't known where Holliman got the deer, which had been dead for some time, Pearson said. Authorities tracked the stolen ambulance through three rural North Carolina counties and one county...

The search for Taylor Marie Behl enters its fourth week today with a "person of interest" in the investigation into her disappearance in jail on unrelated charges and teams of police and family members growing increasingly concerned for her safety. "Whoever has her, let her walk away," Behl's mother, Janet Pelasara, pleaded yesterday during an interview with reporters. "Let her come home. I need my baby, and I want her back." Pelasara's plea for her daughter followed a court hearing yesterday morning for an unemployed photographer who was one of the last people to see the missing Virginia Commonwealth University...

Navy Suspends Search For Missing Helo, Crew JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Navy has suspended search-and-rescue efforts for three service members from a Mayport-based helicopter lost off the coast of North Carolina. The search was called off at 11 a.m. Monday after debris from the wreckage of the SH-60B Seahawk from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Light Wing 44 was located and no survivors were found. The Navy reported losing communication with the helicopter at 10:50 p.m. Saturday while it was conducting landing qualifications on two ships off Cherry Point, N.C. as part of the Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast...

FRANKLIN, Ind. -- An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing boy from Franklin. Officials said the boy is in extreme danger. Police said Thomas Rivera, 11, was believed to have been taken by his father, Gabriel J. Rivera. Thomas Rivera was last seen just after 2 a.m. at 48 South Crowell Street in Franklin. Thomas Rivera is described as a male child, 4 feet 8 inches tall, with short brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing basketball shorts and carrying a green blanket. Police said Gabriel Rivera entered the home of the child's mother by...

Richmond Police yesterday arrested an amateur photographer - one of the last people to see Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Behl before she vanished Sept. 5 - and charged him with 16 counts of possession of child pornography. Ben Fawley, 38, was arrested about 3 p.m. just as a phalanx of armed and armored police officers converged on his doorstep in the 400 block of Hancock Street. "Open the door, Ben," ordered a detective, who was filmed making the arrest by a local TV crew. Moments later, the bespectacled Fawley exited in a black T-shirt. Police said his long, dyed...

Officials at Virginia Commonwealth University are pledging a $20,000 reward to anyone with information leading to the location and return of missing VCU freshman Taylor Marie Behl. "Please keep Taylor, her family and friends in your thoughts as we hope for her safe return," VCU President Eugene P. Trani wrote yesterday in a letter to the university and VCU Health System "communities." The announcement came a day after Behl's family posted an $11,000 reward for information about her disappearance.

Police: Charges May Be Upgraded POSTED: 10:11 am CDT September 22, 2005 CHICAGO -- A 28-year-old man was charged with sex offenses against a 14-year-old boy whose body was found naked in Lincoln Park in mid August, police said Thursday. Shawn Thigpen, of Chicago, was charged late Wednesday with three counts of felony aggravated criminal sexual abuse and was to appear for a bond hearing Thursday, according to police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak. Thigpen is accused of sexually abusing Michael Smith Jr., whose body was found in Lincoln Park Aug. 18, Kubiak said. Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman...

The investigation into a missing Virginia Commonwealth University freshman from Vienna took a new turn Wednesday. Police filed unrelated charges against a person questioned in the student's disappearance. Police searched the apartment of 38-year-old photographer Ben Fawley as part of a child pornography investigation, according to court documents. According to the search warrant, investigators went to Fawley's apartment looking for images and documents related to child pornography and the distribution of child pornography. Investigators said they took away at least five computers and an assortment of computer equipment. Fawley is a friend of 17-year-old Taylor Behl, who has been missing...

A 38-year-old amateur photographer -- one of the last people to see missing Virginia Commonwealth University student Taylor Behl -- filed a report with police claiming he had been abducted and robbed just hours after Behl was last seen on the night of Sept. 5. The photographer told Richmond police that he was walking in an alley near Franklin Street and Monument Avenue at 5 a.m. Sept. 6 when he was "robbed by an unknown number of people," according to a Richmond Police Department incident report obtained last night by The Times-Dispatch. The photographer told police that he was hit...