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For weeks the family of Dr. Zehra Attari has been trying to retrace the route the missing San Jose pediatrician may taken the night she disappeared.Did 55-year-old mother of two make a wrong turn on Doolittle Road, which skirts an inlet as it runs past the Oakland International Airport? Or was did an exit off of 880 lead her astray?Where was she? They asked themselves. Was she alive?These painful questions were finally answered Tuesday night when Attari's gray Honda Accord was pulled out of the Oakland Estuary near the Grand Marina boatyard in Alameda at the foot of Grand Street....

Nuclear Vials Presumed Stolen, Questions Remain About Safety and Procedures Federal and state officials report they still have not located two vials of radioactive material that went missing November 3 as they were being shipped by truck from Albuquerque to Kilgore, Texas. Two plastic tubes of antimony-124, a highly toxic and radioactive liquid primarily used by the oil and gas industry, are looking increasingly like they have been stolen somewhere en route from Albuquerque to Kilgore, Texas, according to New Mexico and federal officials. An official event notification filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by Pro Technics, one of the...

NEW YORK: Huge amounts of high-tech explosives, including 67 kgs of commerical plastic explosives, which could be used to make numerous bombs, have been stolen from a private storage facility in the southwestern US state of New Mexico, officials said on Tuesday. The thieves used blowtorches to cut through the thick steel walls of a bunker where the explosives were stored, ABC news said quoting the officials. The missing 400 pounds of explosives includes 150 pounds of what is known as C-4 plastic, or 'sheet explosive,' which can be shaped and moulded and is often used by terrorists and military...

Albuquerque, NM -- A federal agent says a load of stolen explosives could be devastating if "in the hands of the right people and they knew how to use it." Officials in New Mexico say several hundred pounds of high explosives are missing from a private storage site. About 2,500 blasting caps and an undisclosed length of explosive detonation cord are also missing. Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz says investigators haven't figured out yet when the explosives were taken or exactly how much is missing. An agent at the local office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms says...

Dec. 19, 2005 — About 400 pounds of explosive material was stolen from a research facility in New Mexico, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed today. The theft was discovered Sunday night by local authorities. ATF agents are investigating the large theft from Cherry Enginering, a company owned by Chris Cherry, for decades the senior explosives scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. "It is a very dangerous material, we want to keep this off the streets," Cherry told ABC News. Also, 2,500 detonators were missing from a storage explosive container, or magazine, in the name...

Dam fails in Missouri. People reported missing. Details to come... -

WASHINGTON (AP) — The mysterious disappearance of a Connecticut man during a honeymoon cruise is drawing congressional attention to a seamy side of the glitzy cruise industry.

FITCHBURG, WI - Police have arrested the last person known to have been with Angela Drake, an Oregon woman who hasn't been seen since leaving a Fitchburg bar early Friday. Michael Desalvo, 24, of Fitchburg, was arrested at midnight Monday in connection to drug charges in Dane County Circuit Court as well as a probation violation connected to felony theft charges in Minnesota. Desalvo and Drake left the Dry Bean Saloon on Verona Road at 1:30 a.m. Friday. Drake, 25, had met best friend Tonya Turchik, 24, of Fitchburg, at the bar at 10:15 p.m. Thursday. Turchik said she left...

Katrina is gone -- and so are many kids Team pursues difficult search for more than 1,300 missing children TINA SUSMAN Newsday Posted on Sun, Dec. 11, 2005 Royce Osbourne, in a skeleton mask, marches in a protest for hurricane victims' rights in New Orleans December 10, 200. Protesters feared they would receive federal funds to rebuild their homes. REUTERS/Lee Celano NEW ORLEANS - Three months after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast, the fate of more than 1,300 children remains unknown. Until a few days ago, Lil Joe and Kolenik Williams, brothers from New Orleans, were among the...

Keeping hope alive By Robin Acton The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Sunday, December 11, 2005 CINCINNATI -- One by one, Carolyn Maupin pulled snowmen and dusty yellow ribbons from the Christmas tree that has stood between the living room and dining room of her tiny ranch home since last year. After so many months, she had to redecorate it. She's not sure when, but a while back, the lights fizzled out, leaving branches dark beneath the ornaments and angels and flags sent with prayers from people she's never met. If prayers and yellow ribbons could bring him home, her son, Sgt. Keith...

There are more than 6,600 people still missing as a result of Hurricane Katrina...

Amber Alert issuedUpdated: 12/1/2005 11:19 PMBy: News 10 Now Staff width=3 height=1 border=0> Patricia Lynn Visco, 16 Police in Geneva have issued an Amber Alert for a missing teen. They are searching for 16-year-old Patricia Lynn Visco. She was last seen getting off of the bus at her home at 2:45 pm Thursday afternoon. Police say she is missing under suspicious circumstances and they believe she was forcibly removed from her home at 28 Sharon Street in Geneva, NY. Description: White female Approximately 16-years-old Brown hair Brown eyes 5’3” tall 135 lbs She was last seen wearing blue jeans, a...

AURORA, Colo. -- A 6-year-old Aurora girl was still missing Tuesday, and police are worried because this may be her second day out in the bitter cold weather alone. Arrone Thompson went missing Monday at about 1 p.m. and hasn't been seen since. Police say she got into an argument with her mother about a cookie and walked out the door, wearing little more than a white sweater, a gray hooded sweatshirt and pink sweatpants. She is 4 feet tall, weighs 60 pounds and is missing her top right canine tooth. She was last seen wearing a ponytail with a...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An American citizen has been reported missing in Iraq, the U.S. Embassy said Monday, a day after a Canadian Parliament official said that four humanitarian workers had been kidnapped. Dan McTeague, parliamentary secretary for Canadians abroad, said two Canadians were taken on Saturday, and Britain said one of its citizens was among the four. U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Elizabeth Colton said only that an American had been reported missing. The person's name was not immediately released. McTeague refused to name the organization the two Canadians worked for or the location where they were kidnapped in order to...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- An American citizen is missing in Iraq, the U.S. Embassy said Monday, apparently one of four humanitarian workers reported kidnapped a day earlier.The reported abductions - amid a relative lull in the kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq - came as the trial of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for alleged crimes against humanity resumed Monday in a heavily guarded Baghdad courtroom. The trial was adjourned until Dec. 5 to allow time to find replacements for two defense lawyers who were slain and another who fled Iraq after he was wounded.Also Monday, two Britons were killed when...

WASHINGTON - In Alabama, a man with a history of mental illness killed two police officers with a rifle he bought on Christmas Eve. In suburban New York, a schizophrenic walked into a church during Mass and shot to death a priest and a parishioner. In Texas, a woman taking anti-psychotic medication used a shotgun to kill herself. Not one of their names was in a database that licensed gun dealers must check before making sales — even though federal law prohibits the mentally ill from purchasing guns. Most states have privacy laws barring such information from being shared with...

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 22, 2005 — - Three months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, thousands of people are still unaccounted for, and authorities are at a loss about how to track them down. A group of New Orleans firefighters today went searching for bodies in the Lower Ninth Ward -- for the third time. "On November 7th, we found five bodies. On November 8th, we found two," said Fire Department Chief of Cperations Steve Glynn. Glynn says it would be much easier to search for the missing if he knew who they were. "We'll find them in small...

An amber alert has just been issued regarding a missing child in Hialeah. The Hialeah Police Department and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement are looking for Dialys Ramos, a white female, 17 years old, 5 feet 02 inches tall, 105 pounds, auburn hair, and green eyes. The child was last seen at the 500th block of East 35th St. and is believed to be in danger. Authorities say the child was likely abducted by Robert Laird, a black male, 39 years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall, 180 pounds, black hair, and brown eyes. They may be traveling...

A man wanted in a Pennsylvania double homicide and apparent abduction of 14-year-old girl was captured Monday after a car he was driving crashed in Indiana following a police pursuit, State Police said. State Police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said David Ludwig, 18, was apprehended about 12:30 p.m. EST after a car he was driving crashed about 20 miles west of Indianapolis following a pursuit by State Police. Bursten said Ludwig was found with the missing girl, 14-year-old, Kara Beth Borden, a daughter of the slain couple, and she was unharmed."He's in custody and we have the girl," Bursten said....

Pennsylvania State police are searching for a 14-year-old girl reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint after her parents were murdered. Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for Kara Beth Borden, who was last seen at 8 a.m. in Warwick Township, Lancaster County. Police reported that the teen was taken by 18-year-old David G. Ludwig. Authorities say he was last seen driving a red Volkswagen Jetta with Pennsylvania registration E-H-H-0-9-9-4. Borden is described as white, 5-feet-1, and 100 pounds, with brown hair with blond highlights. She was last seen wearing a black sweat shirt with "Pillar" across the front, blue jeans and black...