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Recently I highlighted how the coverage of Tiktaalik revealed the fascinating phenomenon that only after discovering a new "missing link" will evolutionists acknowledge the previously paltry state of fossil evidence for evolution. This behavior is again witnessed in coverage of the discovery of Australopithecus anamensis fossils in Ethiopia. The media has also exaggerated and overblown claims that this evidence supports "human evolution." The latest "missing link" is actually comprised of a few tooth and bone fragments of Au. anamensis, an ape-like species that lived a little over 4 million years ago. Incredibly, claims of "intermediacy" are based upon 2-3 fragmented...

AL ASAD, Iraq(April 15, 2006) -- Iraqi soldiers joined dozens of U.S. troops in the search for a sailor who has been missing since last week due to a vehicle rollover accident near the Marines’ base here April 2. More than 25 Iraqi soldiers from the Al Asad-based 2nd Brigade, 7th Iraqi Army Division, joined dozens of U.S. Marines, sailors and soldiers in daily search operations to recover several missing U.S. servicemembers from the accident. The accident occurred when a seven-ton truck, part of a Marine combat logistics resupply in Al Anbar Province, rolled over during a flash-flood, according to...

Allison Samsath Keo, suspect If you have any information concerning the whereabouts of this child, please contact the St. Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-7780 or 911 ALLISON BRAKE Date Missing: 4/15/2006 Missing From: St. Petersburg County: Pinellas Birth Date: 8/12/1988 Age Disappeared: 17 yrs 8 months Height: 5' 06" Race: White Hair: Brown Weight: 127 Sex: Female Eyes: Hazel Narrative: A Florida Amber Alert has just been issued for Allison Brake, who was last seen wearing a black Hooters T-shirt and brown suede like jogging pants. The child is believed to be in danger. Authorities say the child was...

MILWAUKEE -- The families of two boys missing for almost a month said Saturday that their sons' bodies had been recovered from a park lagoon near where they disappeared. Purvis Virginia Parker, 11, and Quadrevion Henning, 12, were last seen on the afternoon of March 19 when they asked Henning's grandfather if they could play basketball at the nearby park. The bodies were found in the park lagoon on Friday. "Yes, it's my son," said Angela Virginia, who said she identified Purvis from a photo that police showed her. The Henning family identified Quadrevion on Friday night. "The discovery does...

Purcell girl found deadThe Norman Transcript Neighbor arrested for murder; investigators temporarily rule out chatroom abductor By Melissa A. Wabnitz Transcript Staff Writer PURCELL -- Just steps from her father's apartment on N. 8th St, investigators said they identified and apprehended Friday afternoon a 26-year-old man they believe is responsible for the kidnapping and subsequent murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin. Bolin was reported missing after she failed to return home Wednesday afternoon from a trip to the library. A downstairs neighbor, Kevin Ray Underwood, is being held without bond in the McClain County Jail today and will be charged...

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Two bodies were recovered Friday night from a park lagoon in the area where two Milwaukee boys have been missing for almost month, police said. "It's very difficult at this early time to make any indication of who the child might be," Police Chief Nan Hegerty told reporters as she announced the discovery of the first body. "It looks like it has been in the lagoon for quite some time." She said an autopsy would be done Saturday. Police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz confirmed that divers later recovered a second body from the lagoon. Hegerty said the...

UK's bird tests may be missing flu virus 12 April 2006 From New Scientist Print Edition Debora MacKenzie WHEN France reported its first case of H5N1 bird flu in February, the UK's response was adamant: samples had been taken from more than 3500 wild birds, and those tested so far showed the disease was not yet in the UK. Additional precautions, such as moving poultry indoors, were unnecessary, said the authorities. Last week, scientists found H5N1 bird flu for the first time in the UK, in a dead swan in Fife, Scotland. The UK's environment ministry DEFRA again stated that...

Arkansas Sportsman : Mystery of missing Wal-Mart firearms continues Bryan Hendricks As of March, Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, no longer sells firearms in about 1,000 of its stores nationwide. One of those “firearms free” zones is the new Wal-Mart Supercenter in Sheridan, a small town located in the heart of Arkansas’ deer hunting country. I visited the Sheridan Wal-Mart recently, and as always, stopped by the sporting goods department. No shotguns or rifles were for sale, and no display racks were present. Ammunition, however, was abundant. An associate at the store informed me of this new policy. This person...

The search for a 3-year-old boy missing since 9:30 a.m. today intensified just before nightfall, as the Houston Police Department issued an Amber Alert after Texas EquuSearch joined in the investigation. Kendrick Jackson, of 1251 Wilcrest, disappeared from his parent's home in the Canfield Falls apartment complex in southwest Houston this morning. The little boy's father, Rodrick Johnson, went upstairs briefly this morning after he checked on the boy and saw that he was sitting up in bed. When Johnson went back downstairs, the boy was missing and the front door to the apartment was ajar. Keyanna Jackson, the boy's...

IT SEEMED a simple question: where was the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko? But on the eve of his planned visit to Moscow yesterday, no one could answer. And, in the absence of official information, rumours swirled that “Europe’s last dictator” was in hiding, suffering from severe depression. Mr Lukashenko has been seen just once since the day after he won a third term in an election widely condemned as a farce and he even postponed his own inauguration ceremony, scheduled for last Friday, to an unspecified date this month. Now there is uncertainy over whether he will attend a...

As I was preparing for this article, I asked a friend who is Jewish if it was appropriate to use the term "holocaust" to portray the worldwide violence against women. He was startled. But when I read him the figures in a 2004 policy paper published by the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, he said yes, without hesitation. One United Nations estimate says from 113 million to 200 million women around the world are demographically "missing." Every year, from 1.5 million to 3 million women and girls lose their lives as a result of gender-based violence...

Fugitive couple caught in Washington 06:59 PM PST on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Associated Press LONG BEACH, Wash. - First they were missing, then they were found, then they fled and now - finally - an end is in sight in the saga of Elbert and Becky Higginbotham. AP file photo Elbert Higginbotham talks to reporters after the family is rescued. The Arizona couple was arrested Tuesday in Pacific County, Washington, according to police there. The two are wanted in Arizona after allegedly being caught with a small amount of methamphetamine and a shotgun 11 months ago. They received national...

Wanted tyrant of Liberia vanishes from Nigerian haven By David Blair, Africa Correspondent and Katharine Houreld in Lagos (Filed: 29/03/2006) The Nigerian government was accused of allowing Charles Taylor, Africa's most notorious fallen tyrant, to escape justice after he vanished from his grace-and-favour residence yesterday. Taylor, 58, the former Liberian dictator, had been living in the city of Calabar despite being the subject of an Interpol arrest warrant and an indictment on 17 counts of war crimes. Charles Taylor took refuge in Nigeria when he was deposed The Baptist lay preacher, who devastated Liberia and led a brutal rebel army...

ABUJA, Nigeria — Former Liberian President Charles Taylor disappeared from his Nigerian haven, days after his hosts agreed to transfer him to a war crimes tribunal for the murder, rape and maiming of more than a half-million Africans, officials said today. The announcement of Taylor's disappearance came the day before Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo was to meet with President Bush at the White House. That visit was supposed to occur on a high note after Obasanjo resolved two issues of concern to his U.S. allies — Monday's release of kidnapped American oil workers and last week's deal to hand over...

VISTA, CA – The body of a Vista businesswoman who was reported missing about two weeks ago was found in Mexico, the victim of an apparent homicide, police said Monday. San Diego sheriff's deputies were notified by Mexican authorities Monday that Jane Kling, 68, was found about 45 miles south of San Felipe, deputies said. Kling's children reported her missing March 15. She owned the two A&J consignment shops in Vista. Mexican authorities also found Kling's Dodge Caravan, also reported missing, near the area where her body was discovered, deputies said. Homicide investigators in Ensenada are conducting an investigation into...

NEW ORLEANS -- By Louisiana's latest official count, 1,292 people are known to have died in the state because of Hurricane Katrina. About 1,280 -- the number changes daily -- remain missing. Hundreds of people were sucked into the Gulf of Mexico by Katrina's retreating tsunami-like storm surge and will never be found. But the state-run, federally funded Find Family National Call Center is discovering that hundreds of others have used the storm and the nationwide diaspora it triggered to escape a troubled or painful past. They do not want to be found. The center's 90 or so workers immerse...

SELMER, Tenn. — Police searched Thursday for the missing wife and three young children of a church minister who was found shot to death in his parsonage.

Tenn. Pastor Found Slain; Amber Alert Issued for Family Thursday , March 23, 2006 SELMER, Tenn. — A church minister was found shot to death in his parsonage, and authorities were searching for his missing wife and three young daughters Thursday. It wasn't immediately clear if the woman and children were abducted or if they were involved in the crime and fled. Church members went searching for pastor Matthew Winkler late Wednesday when he didn't show up for an evening service at Fourth Street Church of Christ, police said. They used a key to enter the parsonage and found him...

A woman who disappeared as a teen 10 years ago had been living with a middle school security guard who didn't allow her to leave his home for several years, police said Wednesday. Tanya Nicole Kach, now 24, was reunited with her family this week. She had been living at the man's home, located about two miles from her father's house in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, police said. The two met when Thomas Hose, 48, worked as a security guard at a school where Kach was a student. It was not immediately clear how she ended up at the...

All Six Members of Missing Oregon Family Found Alive Tuesday , March 21, 2006 MEDFORD, Ore. — Six family members missing in a recreational vehicle since March 4 were found alive Tuesday in a remote, snowy section of Southern Oregon, authorities said. U.S. Bureau of Land Management workers first found two of the family members, who had decided to walk out of the woods and left the vehicle, sheriff's deputies said. Later, search and rescue workers in a helicopter made contact with the other four, said Sgt. David Marshall, spokesman for the Douglas County sheriff's department. A snow machine was...