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TUCSON, Ariz. -- An empty casket with a military seal was discovered in a desert area south of Tucson, and sheriff's deputies were looking for the body. "Obviously it had the smell, and there was other evidence that it had been inhabited recently," Deputy Dawn Barkman said Sunday. Forensic investigators took DNA samples, and a nationwide alert was issued in hopes of finding out who was the recently-used casket, Barkman said. Deputies were called to a desert area near Interstate 10 around 5:30 p.m. Saturday after two people playing paintball found the casket, Barkman said. The casket was metallic silver...

Missing Soldier's Uncle Criticizes U.S. By LYNN BREZOSKY BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - As the families of two missing soldiers waited to hear if two bodies found Tuesday were their loved ones, the uncle of one lashed out at the government, saying it didn't do enough to bring the men home safe. ``Because the U.S. government did not have a plan in place, my nephew has paid for it with his life,'' Ken MacKenzie, uncle of Army Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, told NBC's ``Today'' show. U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the military has recovered what are believed to be the remains...

Rescue crews searched the Chesapeake Bay for a prominent publisher and diplomat after his sailboat was discovered empty in the water, the executive editor of The (Annapolis) Capital said Sunday. Philip Merrill's boat was found around 7 p.m. Saturday, authorities said. Merrill was still missing early Sunday, said Tom Marquardt of The Capital, which is part of Merrill's publishing company. The 72-year-old publisher had been sailing alone on a breezy day, Marquardt said in a telephone interview. He said he did not know what happened to him. "I'd have to speculate," Marquardt said. "There's just too many things that can...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. military says two soldiers are missing after their team came under attack at a traffic control point in Yusafiyah, Iraq Friday night, that left one other coalition soldier dead.

Investigators report no human remains found in burned vehicle By ERIC HANSON and ROBERT CROWE Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle One of Houston Astros coach Jose Cruz's sons is considered missing after a pickup he had been driving was found on fire near an office building in Katy earlier this month. Jose Javier Cruz, 34, last talked to family members May 19 at his Houston home in the 10300 block of Huntington Place, said Katy police Capt. Gay Dickerson. "We are listing him as a missing person in danger because he is not answering his cell phone," Dickerson said Tuesday. ...

CAÑON CITY - "Evan, Evan," the searchers yelled down into the canyon, hoping the Lakewood boy would answer, but the wind carried away their calls. Moving to another vantage point at the top of the cliff, they peered into the crevices and megaphoned, "Evan . . . Evan." The wind simply swirled Evan Thompson's name away again, and the canyon fell silent. A third day of searching the rugged mountains of southern Colorado ended Monday with a previously located trail of shoeprints the only clue to the child's disappearance. "People can just vanish in this country," said Jack Bales, a...

(05-30) 16:55 PDT Canon City, Colo. (AP) -- An 8-year-old boy missing since Saturday was found alive Tuesday after searchers investigated a report of sounds of a crying child in a remote canyon about 35 miles southwest of Pikes Peak. "He's alive and well," said Zack Slutsky of Western State Mountain Rescue in Gunnison and a spokesman for the operation. The boy was being evacuated to a hospital. He was found at about 4:20 p.m. Nearly 100 rescuers and three aircraft were searching for Evan Thompson, who was last seen Saturday morning while camping with family friends and a teacher...

http://www.ky3.com/news/2835996.html The mother may be responsible for their disappearance, but the MSHP has issued the alert because they cannot be sure at this point. Sounds as if they've been gone over 24 hours now.

MILFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The FBI on Wednesday searched property northwest of Detroit for clues to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, officials said.

Breaking News: FBI Searches Wooded Area for Hoffa By Cheryl Chodun Web produced by Seth Myers May 17, 2006 A group of FBI investigators is searching a wooded area in the vicinity of Milford and Wixom in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters’ leader Jimmy Hoffa. Investigators have cordoned off a section of woods where the bones of the long-missing union official may lie. Hoffa was last seen at the Mocas Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township in July 1975. Speculation regarding his whereabouts – or his body’s whereabouts – certainly comes and goes. Recently, a mob hitman named...

My brother Bill has been missing since April 10th . He lives in Chicago around 43rd and the Dan Ryan. His friend has been looking for him and did not know how to contact me. After he missed his second drill(he is in the reserves) the Navy got concerned and called me. The police will not file a missing persons report for an adult but I think the Navy will do it tomorrow. My brother is a member of the U.S. Navy reserves and he has recently served in Kuwait and Japan. Please pray for the safety of my brother.

5/9/2006 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, or DPMO, announced today that two members of a four-man Army Air Forces crew missing in action from World War II have been identified. They are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. The crew is pilot Capt. Douglas Wight of Westfield, N.J.; co-pilot 1st Lt. Herbert Evans of Rapid City, S.D.; crew chief Cpl. John Hanlon of Arnett, Okla.; and radio operator Pfc. Gerald Rugers Jr., of Tacoma, Wash. Lieutenant Evans and Private Rugers were individually identified, while group remains of all four will be...

http://wtvf.com/content/news/18777.asp Toddler Missing More Than 24 Hours Posted: 4/25/2006 8:00:00 AM Updated: 4/25/2006 8:34:08 AM Tuesday morning an amber alert was still active for a Smyrna toddler. Community members held a candlelight vigil on Monday for the missing toddler. Two-year-old Analyce Guerra disappeared Sunday night from her apartment. Many of those community members, along with other officials, spent Monday morning searching for Analyce. At first, people thought she had walked away during the night. By Monday afternoon, however, police were processing a crime scene. At first, police did not suspect foul play, but now they are calling the case suspicious....

Employer Offers $250,000 For Missing Orlando Woman Local6.com | 3 hrs ago | 2 sources An employer of a missing woman offered a $250,000 reward for the safe return of the woman three months after she mysteriously disappeared in Orlando.

Eric Julien, a former French military air traffic controller and senior airport manager, has completed a study of the comet 73P Schwassmann- Wachmann and declared that a fragment is highly likely to impact the Earth on or around May 25, 2006. Comet Schwassman-Wachmann follows a five-year orbit that crosses the solar system's ecliptic plane. It has followed its five year orbit intact for centuries; but, in 1995, mysteriously fragmented. According to Julien, this is the same year that a crop circle appeared showing the inner solar system with the Earth missing from its orbit. He argues the "Missing Earth" crop...

WASHINGTON, April 21, 2006 – As the Army Reserve observes its 98th birthday this weekend, the commander of U.S. Army Reserve Command today took the opportunity to honor the only U.S. soldier who remains listed as captured in Iraq, Army Reserve Sgt. Keith "Matt" Maupin. Army Lt. Gen. James Helmly noted the contributions and sacrifices Army Reservists are making in support of the global war on terror during a birthday commemoration here at the Pentagon. The Army Reserve was established on April 23, 1908. More than 150,000 Army Reserve soldiers have been mobilized since Sept. 11, 2001, and more than...

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of eleven U.S. airmen, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. They are Capt. Thomas C. Paschal, El Monte, Calif.; 1st Lt. Frank P. Giugliano, New York, N.Y.; 1st Lt. James P. Gullion, Paris, Texas; 2nd Lt. Leland A. Rehmet, San Antonio, Texas; 2nd Lt. John A. Widsteen, Palo Alto, Calif., Staff Sgt. Richard F. King, Moultrie, Ga.; Staff Sgt. William Lowery, Republic, Pa..; Staff Sgt. Elgin J. Luckenbach, Luckenbach, Texas.;...

Breaking on CNN web page from AP report.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - Search teams combed the forests of northern Georgia Thursday for a missing airplane registered to legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield, the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound. Officials did not immediately know who was flying the single-engine plane or whether Crossfield was aboard when it left Alabama for Virginia on Wednesday morning.

For almost a year the US Navy has been hunting a Swedish submarine, the HMS Gotland, off America's west coast. The hunt is, of course, a one year training programme - but the Americans now want to extend the contract with the Swedish Navy. Time after time, as part of the Americans' training in tracking down smaller vessels, the Swedish submarine and its crew have eluded their pursuers. The programme started last summer but the US Navy has said that it would like to hire the Swedish submarine and crew for another year, reported the newspaper Blekinge Läns Tidning. That...