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As the widespread search for Laci Peterson continued Monday, nine divers spent a second consecutive day focusing on a small section of Lake Tulloch. Sheriff's divers from Stanislaus and Calaveras counties concentrated in the area under O'Byrnes Ferry Bridge at the border of Tuolumne and Calaveras counties. Patrick Kelly, a member of the Stanislaus dive team, said he didn't know whether a tip or evidence might have pointed investigators to Tulloch, but nothing had been found there so far. Police did not return calls seeking comment about the Lake Tulloch search effort Monday. At an afternoon news conference, police said...

<p>For almost two weeks, more than 1,000 people have signed up to pass out fliers or to search neighborhoods for Laci Peterson, the pregnant woman who disappeared Christmas Eve.</p> <p>Most of the volunteers have never met each other, nor have they met Peterson. Yet they are so dedicated that their work has reached from Modesto west to the Bay Area, east to Yosemite National Park, north to Sacramento and as far south as Mexico.</p>

<p>A burglary across the street from Laci Peterson's home had nothing to do with the Modesto woman's disappearance, police confirmed Friday.</p> <p>The announcement coincided with police saying they had arrested two suspects in the burglary and determined that they were not involved in the missing-person case.</p>

Hello all freepers, Im writing this post to ask for prayers. My wife flew back to Dearborn Hts. Michigan to spend the holidays with her mother. Just 1 hour ago my wife called me to tell that her mother has been missing since ten o'clock this morning. This would not be so alarming if she did not have alzheimers. The police have been notified and said they would look for her. But it is so very cold out right now and my wife says her mother always goes out very lightly dressed. Another worry is her mother took her car...

Modesto police and firefighters carried out a massive and futile search along Dry Creek on Wednesday for a woman who is eight months pregnant who disappeared Christmas Eve while walking her dog in East La Loma Park. By nightfall, there was still no sign of Laci Denise Peterson, 27, who left her home on Covena Avenue about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. She was last seen in the park about 10 a.m. Peterson was reported missing shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday, after her husband returned home from a fishing trip to the Bay Area, police said. Police said they do not believe...

Missing: four tons of nerve gas, 8.5 tons of anthrax, and assorted nuclear bomb parts By David Usborne and Rupert Cornwell 20 December 2002 The United States pushed the world closer to armed conflict last night when Colin Powell, the Secretary of State, asserted that Iraq's declaration on its weapons capacities "totally failed" to meet the conditions laid down by the United Nations. The document, he said, was nothing more than "a catalogue of flagrant omissions and recycled information." Speaking after the two senior UN weapons inspectors had told the Security Council there were serious "holes" in the declaration, General...

Police discover body believed to be Kahealani By Mike Gordon, Rod Ohira, Scott Ishikawa and Curtis Lum Advertiser Staff Writers Fliers seeking information about 11-year-old Kahealani Indreginal, missing since Tuesday,were posted around her 'Aiea community before today's discovery of a body believed to be the girl. Police announced this afternoon that they have discovered a body believed to be that of Kahealani Indreginal, 11, who has been missing since Tuesday afternoon. Police said the body was found near the 'Aiea Loop Trail about 2 p.m today. The body was found by a hiker, who called police. Honolulu police officer Joe...

The head of Russia's nuclear regulatory agency says small amounts of weapons grade and reactor grade nuclear materials have disappeared from the country's atomic facilities.'Instances of the loss of nuclear materials have been recorded, but what the quantity is is another question,' Yuri Vishyevsky, head of Gosatomnadzor, said Thursday. 'Of those situations we can talk about in reality, they involve either grams of weapons grade or kilograms of the usual uraninum used in atomic power plants.'Most often these instances are connected with factories perparing fuel: Eleckrostal in Moskow region and Novosibirsk,' in Siberia, Vishnyevsky said.He did not give further details...

This is an urgent plea for help from Prairie Lady; these are her posts: [copied] I JUST got off the phone with my neice. It seems my sister (her mother) is missing since yesterday between 3pm and 4:40pm yesterday from the SouthCarolina area. She headed north as far as we can track, but then nothing. This is TOTALLY uncharacteristic of her. We need to know if she is on her own willingly making decisions, or if she has been abducted and is in need of help. Is there anybody from that area that can help? ---------------------- ok, she spoke to...

We need to pray for the four missing college students, for their families, and for the law enforcement agencies and all who are trying to find them.Please bump this page if you are willing to pray.God be merciful to them and save them.

The search for a missing St. John's University student --one of four college-age Minnesotans who have disappeared in the last two weeks -- widened Wednesday as National Guard troops have been called in to aid the effort. The Guard troops will help comb the woods, lakes and streams around the university searching for Josh Guimond (pictured, right), a 20-year-old junior political science major from Maple Lake who was last seen leaving a party Saturday night. Stearns County Sheriff Jim Kostreba asked for the Guard's help Tuesday and the request was OK'd by Gov. Jesse Ventura Tuesday afternoon. About 100 troops...

Ex-Husker football star missing in Indonesia blast Full Article WASHINGTON - A father, husband and former Cornhusker offensive lineman was missing Sunday at the site of bomb blasts in Bali, Indonesia - possibly the first American reported dead in yet another overseas terror attack. Jake Young, a consensus All-American center for NU in 1988 and 1989, was reportedly at a nightspot and restaurant in Bali when explosions, apparently set by terrorists, killed at least 187 and injured many others.

Lost: 2,900 sex offenders. We swear they were right here just a minute ago. Not all are housebroken or declawed. If located, do not try returning them yourself. Contact the Wisconsin Department of Corrections; we'll send a guy with a net. Reward? Not with a billion dollar state budget deficit there ain't. You might want to refrain from asking all your neighbors if they're the pervs the state is looking for. People hate that. Our state needs help. The Department of Corrections has mislaid nearly one-third of the registered sex offenders in Wisconsin, according to a report this week....

<p>Key public records that justify the recent award of millions of dollars worth of consultant contracts by the state's public housing agency are missing from official files, according to a review by The Advertiser.</p> <p>State law requires that the records be available for public inspection and officials of the Housing and Community Development Corp. of Hawaii (HCDCH) can't explain why the documents are missing from contract files.</p>

NASA digital images discover ancient "Ramayana" bridge between India, Lanka PTI Washington, October 09 2002 The NASA Shuttle has imaged a mysterious ancient bridge between India and Sri Lanka, as mentioned in the Ramayana. The evidence, say experts matter-of-factly, is in the Digital Image Collection. The recently discovered bridge, currently named as Adam's Bridge and made of a chain of shoals, 30 km long, in the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka, reveals a mystery behind it. The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man-made. Legend as well as Archeological studies reveal that...

200 SOVIET NUKES LOST IN UKRAINE A nuke scandal is gathering steam Pyotr Simonenko, the leader of the Ukrainian Communist Party released a sensational statement on Wednesday. In his words, there were 2400 nuclear warheads in Ukraine, although the export of only 2200 of them was officially documented. Simonenko claimed that nobody knows where 200 Soviet-era nukes in Ukraine are. The official reaction followed the next day, but it was a rather weak one. Deputy chief of the Ukrainian Army Headquarters, Nikolay Goncharenko, declared that Simonenko’s statement regarding the disappearance of the nuclear weapons from the territory of Ukraine...

Men Missing Since 9/11 Found Alive Tue Aug 27, 7:26 PM ET By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) - Two men listed for months as missing in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center have been discovered alive in area hospitals, city officials said Tuesday. In addition, the city medical examiner's office said a revised list of the missing and dead is expected to reflect at least five similar cases when it is released next week. "Tell everyone I'm alive and in good health," said Albert Vaughan, 45, when reached by telephone Tuesday at the Rockland...

FBI with search dogs on the farm property of man arrested looking for missing teens from Oregon

Two arrested for murder of missing UK girls August 17 2002 at 01:54PM Soham, England - A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murdering missing British schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, police said on Saturday. "In the last few hours a 28-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman have been arrested," said Detective Chief Inspector Andy Hebb. The announcement appeared to bring an end to hopes that the 10-year-old girls would be found alive. The case has gripped the nation for two weeks and drawn in more than 400 police in one of the country's biggest...

BASSETT, Va. — Virginia police searched frantically Thursday for a 9-year-old girl who was nowhere to be found after her parents were discovered shot to death in the western part of the state. Nobody knows where this child is. That's not normal," Henry County Sheriff's Capt. Kimmy Nester said. "The family is all in shock." horities initially thought Jennifer Renee Short ran away during the shootings, but they are searching for her now on the presumption she was abducted, Nester said. Investigators said evidence seemed to rule out a murder-suicide. >p>Authiss an Amber Alert, relaying information about the case to...