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LAURA W. MACKENZIE 5’4", Blue Eyes, Brown Hair. A senior at Goffstown Area High School, NH. She drives a 1995 black, 4-door Volkswagen Golf. NH License Plate Number: 211 0126. If you have any information, please call the Goffstown, NH Police Dept. 603-497-4858 or email enidmack@yahoo.com Last seen March 8, 2006

Family's desperate search ends in heartbreak when body is found March 16, 2006 JASON COLLINS - Victoria Advocate For more than a day, family and friends didn't know what happened to 53-year-old Sally Blackwell. That uncertainty came to an end Wednesday afternoon when her body was found alongside Hanselman Road in Victoria County. Lt. Mike Hernandez, with the Victoria Police Department, said the department is treating the death of Blackwell, program director of South Texas Child Protective Services, as a homicide. They are awaiting an autopsy report, ordered by Justice of the Peace Beatriz Gonzalez, to confirm the cause of...

Honolulu (AP) -- A dam burst on the island of Kauai on Tuesday, and seven people were missing, the Coast Guard said.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali police began hunting on Saturday for a teenaged boy who some people believe is an reincarnation of Buddha after he disappeared from the site where he had been meditating for almost 10 months. Fifteen-year-old Ram Bahadur Bamjon has not been seen since early Saturday, said Hari Krishna Khatiwada, a district official of Bara, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Kathmandu. The boy had been meditating there without food or water since May. Some of his followers are also missing. "So far we have found no trace of them," Khatiwada said. Sitting cross-legged beneath a "pipal" tree,...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. Since her 13-year-old daughter vanished Monday, Stella Browne says she has been getting text messages from the girl saying that someone followed her and that she woke up in a dark basement. "Help. I'm scared. I don't know where I am," one of the text messages that Natasha Browne sent her mother said, Stella Browne told The Jersey Journal of Jersey City for Wednesday's newspapers. The message went on to say: "Someone was following me and I just don't remember what happened. I just woke up in a basement. I'm scared." Jersey City police have classified Browne's...

New Orleans Renews Search for the Missing Thursday March 2, 2006 11:01 PM By MARY FOSTER Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A full six months after Hurricane Katrina, officials renewed the search for bodies Thursday, moving slowly through ravaged neighborhoods with cadaver dogs in hopes of locating 300 to 400 people still unaccounted for. The search teams targeted 160 houses and 122 debris piles at or near addresses of people still missing. The addresses were culled from a list of about 2,300 people still listed as unaccounted for with state and federal officials. ``We have between 300 and...

New York -- With few physical clues to the whereabouts of an escaped show dog, the hunt for the award-winning whippet has entered another realm. About 12 psychics are counseling searchers as they check the heated cargo buildings near where Vivi escaped from a travel cage at Kennedy International Airport, Paul Lepiane, the dog's co-owner, told Newsday for Tuesday editions. "They are telling us that she is alive and they are telling us she is warm," said Honi Reisman, a friend of the dog's owners. "They are saying she's in a building — but there are hundreds of buildings." According...

A chance sighting solves the case of a missing New York man found living at a Chicago homeless shelter. Doctors at a west suburban hospital are treating the man. Raymond Power Junior is suffering from amnesia. The attorney and former police officer disappeared from his home in New Rochelle, New York last summer. Earlier this week he turned up at the Pacific Garden Mission in the South Loop. He told people there his name was Jay Tower. A homeless man who befriended Power helped the shelter's operator learn his true identity. Power told police he doesn't remember how he got...

Feb. 20, 2006 issue - The 13-year-old girl was on her way home from badminton practice when she disappeared. Every night for five years, her mother kept the porch light on, hoping against hope for Megumi Yokota's return. That was almost 30 years ago. Then in 1996, Sakie Yokota and her husband learned that the North Koreans had snatched their daughter as part of a bizarre abduction program that had kidnapped scores of Japanese, perhaps as many as a hundred, in the 1970s and '80s. Ever since, Megumi Yokota's story has been a sensation in the Japanese press. In 2002,...

By SAM HAYES MELOS, Greece — The missing arms of the Venus de Milo were discovered last week in a cellar in Southern Croatia — and it turns out she’s got hideous man-hands! “We rushed the arms to the Louvre in Paris and matched them up to the statue. They were a perfect fit,” says art historian Ovidio Bartoli. “Then we did some carbon-dating and we confirmed that these are the real deal.” Word of the discovery has created an uproar in the art world. “It’s hard to believe someone so talented in anatomy would have such trouble keeping the...

Missing from the list of attendees at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 was the name of the Lt. Governor - James Earl Carter. Also missing was the President of the United States - LBJ. I find it criminal that Carter can use the funeral of Coretta Scott King to criticize President Bush when he didn't bother to show up for her husbands funeral. It is noteworthy that both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan attended the '68 funeral of King, while President Johnson did not.

A cruise ship carrying 1300 passengers in the Red Sea has been reported disappeared from radar by Egyptian authorities. No other details....

Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police say their search for a missing Cecil County teenager has become a recovery operation.“As far as the Natural Resources Police is concerned, everything points to the worst,” said Sgt. Ken Turner. So far, search efforts have failed to find the 15-year-old last seen Thursday afternoon in a canoe in the Elk River. “He was reported missing around 6:45 p.m.,” said Turner. The search covered every possibility. “We searched air, land and water until 1 a.m., then started back at 7 a.m.,” Turner said. On Friday, the search was increased with the addition of K-9...

Best source up to the moment reports that Ahmadinejad has gone missing along with the missing Imam. Mookie Sadr appeared at presidential palace in Tehran two days back, and no sign of Ahmadinejad. Presidential visit to Ahvaz called off because no sign of Ahmadinejad. Missing three days from view. His presence projected on state TV this news cycle in order to denounce the Brits for planting the bombs in Ahvaz (more likely local rascals, long-standing beef with Tehran), but still no sighting. Where is he? Ahmadinejad is likely preparing the next phase of the aggression. Iranian air defense is said...

Red Cross Helicopter Missing; 7 on Board By ROSHAN MUGHAL, By The Associated Press 18 minutes ago MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - A helicopter used by the Red Cross for earthquake relief operations in Pakistan has gone missing with seven crew members on board, an official said Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT The helicopter lost contact with the air control tower after leaving the northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday, Red Cross quake relief chief Andre Paquet said. The helicopter had been chartered by Turkmenistan to the International Committee of the Red Cross for relief work in the quake zone for the past three months....

SAN DIEGO -- Police in San Diego are looking for a potty perp. Someone swiped a high-tech toilet seat worth about $2,700. The seat is thermostatically controlled and circulates hot water to warm the bottom. The theft victim told police the specially made potty seat was taken from an unlocked storage facility. The man said he had the seat because he hoped to market it in the San Diego area, but the company that makes it wanted it back. He said he discovered the seat was missing when he went to get it.

http://www.nbc30.com/news/6155121/detail.html All day I considered losing my anonymity to post this, but it's too important to let it go. I have seen that Freepers are an extremely supportive bunch, so I knew this was a good idea. My brother has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and it is has been in the single digits/teens in CT since yesterday. My brother left home without his wallet, carrying just a backpack. He said he was going for a walk and never returned. My family and I are worried SICK. We need all the prayer we can get. Pray that my younger brother...

A British man kidnapped in Iraq and held for five days by armed men who threatened to behead him was rescued last week by American special forces and astonished to discover that no one had noticed he was missing.

PA Amber Alert - Pittsburgh PD Allegheny Co, City of Pittsburgh, 2:55 AM, Black Female Age 1 Dk Hair, 30 LBS, Blue jean pants , pink top. Abducted by Black Male Age 29 YOA, Last Seen in older white Lincoln SDN, unknown direction of travel. The Pennsylvania State Police has issued an Amber Child Abduction Alert for Pittsburgh Police Department, Allegheny County. Pittsburgh Police Department is searching for Rahsann Coles, black female, 1 year of age, black hair, 30 pounds in weight, wearing blue jeans and a pink top. She was last seen at 207 Edmond Street, Pittsburgh, Pa Allegheny...