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MADISON, Wis. — Madison police started a search at sunrise Monday in the village of Oregon for evidence related to a 22-year-old student who went missing more than two weeks ago after a night of drinking.The search in the Kelly Nolan case was focused on a 3-square-mile area immediately north of the village of Oregon, east of Highway 14, Madison police said. A number of geographical areas were identified during the investigation as being worth searching, police said. Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said early Monday morning that he did not know yet whether anything had been found. The University of...

Search to Continue for Missing Rafter By PAUL J. WEBER 07.08.07, 4:30 AM ET Search teams have been combing the swollen Trinity River for a missing rafter and Texans got a respite from the drenching rain that has pounded the state for nearly three weeks. Meanwhile, the death toll from storms that have battered Texas since last month climbed to 16 Saturday with the recovery of another victim. The 26-year-old missing man was on a rubber raft that capsized Friday on the Trinity. The search was called off for the day late Saturday but was expected to continue Sunday. "We...

The recent loss of more than 200 homes in the Angora fire near Lake Tahoe was another ugly reminder that California hasn't gotten its act together on forest policy. As San Diego County residents know painfully well from fall 2003, when the Cedar and Paradise fires destroyed more than 2,400 homes, much of the state is at risk. But long before 2003, fire experts had zeroed in on the especially destructive possibilities of a wildfire in the Tahoe basin, where thousands of homes are built in forests that are vastly thicker than they were in the days when there were...

NICOSIA (Reuters) - A senior U.S. diplomat stationed in Cyprus has gone missing, the United States embassy said on Saturday. "U.S. embassy employee Thomas Mooney has been missing for the past 48 hours," a U.S. embassy spokesman told Reuters, adding that police had been informed.

A University of Pittsburgh student last seen in April was found apparently living among homeless people in Montana, authorities said. When a ranger at Glacier National Park came across several people Thursday and asked for their identification, one of them was Pranesh Patel, said Pittsburgh police Lt. Daniel Herrmann. The ranger ran Patel's name through the National Crime Information Center and was alerted to a missing persons report filed May 2 by Patel's brother. The ranger alerted Pittsburgh police, who notified Patel's family. Patel was spotted again at the park Friday, according to his brother, Tarak Patel. Family members planned...

A Royal Caribbean International cruise ship resumed its voyage to Puerto Rico on Tuesday as Coast Guard crews searched for a passenger reported missing a day earlier. The Freedom of the Seas turned around Monday to return to the waters east of Eleuthera Island, Bahamas, where it had been sailing when the man was last reported seen. The Coast Guard resumed a search of those waters Tuesday by air. Relatives last saw the 24-year-old American man around 1:45 a.m. Monday on his stateroom balcony, and reported him missing about seven hours later, according to the cruise line. The man's name...

Police investigating the disappearance of pregnant mom Jessie Davis are looking into the discovery of an abandoned newborn baby 45 miles from where the woman was last seen. The day-old infant girl was left Monday night in a wicker basket on the doorstep of a residence in rural south Wooster, Ohio and taken to Wooster Community Hospital, where a DNA sample was taken. Davis, who was pregnant with a baby girl and due to give birth July 3, vanished in North Canton, south of Cleveland in northeastern Ohio. Authorities are trying to determine whether there is a link between that...

The search is underway for as many as seven missing firefighters at the scene of a West Ashley fire. Charleston Mayor Joe Riley told reporters that several firefighters from three different local agencies were unaccounted for after the Sofa Superstore collapsed, but provided no further details. The fire broke out late Monday afternoon, shutting down part of Highway 17 near Wappoo Road. Flames were spotted shooting from the roof and thick black smoke billowed into the sky and could be seen as far away as James Island. Local residents and bystanders attempted to assist firefighters contain the fire. Some moved...

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Former radio host has disappeared, family, friends say Police looking into Mike Webb case Last updated June 15, 2007 11:07 p.m. PT By LEVI PULKKINEN P-I REPORTER Police are investigating the disappearance of Seattle radio personality Mike Webb, the former liberal talk-show host for KIRO-AM radio who was convicted of insurance fraud earlier this year. Webb, 52, was last seen by family or friends on April 13, according to a missing-person report filed in May with the Seattle Police Department. Webb Webb "To my knowledge, Mr. Webb has not been found yet," said Officer Mark Jamieson, a police...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The 15-year-old girl whose marathon case of hiccups made international news earlier this year has apparently run away from home, police said Monday.

An unprecedented search and rescue effort continued through the weekend on Fort Hood in an effort to locate a soldier who went missing Friday. While engaging in a solo navigational mission on a remote section of Fort Hood Friday afternoon, Sgt. Lawrence G. Sprader, 24, lost contact with his command unit. His last contact came at 5 p.m. Friday, indicating he had veered from his designated coordinates. A massive coordinated effort to find the missing soldier has been underway as more than 600 soldiers, more than a dozen ATVs; multiple helicopters, both military and Texas Department of Public Safety, tactical...

BLOOMFIELD, Conn. - A 15-year-old girl missing for nearly a year was found Wednesday locked in a small hidden room under the staircase of a West Hartford home, and two people who live there were arrested, police said. Bloomfield police said they found the girl alive in a room blocked from view by a cabinet. They had gone to the home with West Hartford police to serve search warrants for DNA and other evidence. Adam Gault, 41, was charged with second-degree unlawful restraint, second-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree custodial interference, interfering with an officer, risk of injury to a minor and...

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Go to the Senator's web page and click on the immigration tab. Nothing comes up. His former positions on immigration are now lost in the electronic mist. Administrator, please move this if it is in the wrong category.

One of three U.S. soldiers that vanished after a May 12 assault on an outpost by insurgents linked to Al Qaeda was found dead, FOX News confirmed.

Search continues for missing Soldiers Friday, 18 May 2007 Multi-National Corps – Iraq Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory APO AE 09342 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELEASE No. 20070518-01 May 18, 2007 Search continues for missing Soldiers Staff Sgt. Angela McKinzie 2nd BCT PAO, 10th Mtn. Div. (LI) Multi-National Division – Center PAO YUSUFIYAH, Iraq — Search efforts continue for three missing U.S. Soldiers who are believed to have been abducted by I Saturday in Quarghuli Village, Iraq. Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) from Fort Drum, N.Y., and the 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division...

LISBON, Portugal — The home of a British man was being searched Monday by police looking for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal on May 3. The man, Robert Murat, was taken to a police station. His mother told Sky News that he has not been arrested. She said no trace of Madeleine had been found at the villa. The property is just 150 yards from the apartment where Madeleine's family were staying, in the southern Portuguese resort of Praia Da Luz. ... McCann vanished May 3 after her parents left her, and her brother and sister, both...

Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq’s declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according to a draft American government report. Using an average of $50 a barrel, the report said the discrepancy was valued at $5 million to $15 million daily. The report does not give a final conclusion on what happened to the missing fraction of the roughly two million barrels pumped by Iraq each day, but the findings are sure to reinforce longstanding suspicions that smugglers, insurgents and corrupt officials control...

<p>The Warren County Sheriff’s Office says its seeks the public's assistance in locating two elderly women from Warren County.</p> <p>Mary Ellen Walters, 68, and Ada Wasson, 80, were last seen last Thursday April 19th at Otterbein Retirement Living Community located at State Routes 741 and 63 in Warren County. The two women live in the Patio Homes section, which is an independent living area.</p>

Missing American Feared a Victim of 'Dirty War' April 13, 2007 The Financial Times Guy Dinmore in Washington and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran Just why Robert Levinson, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and now private investigator, should venture into Iran to meet a American fugitive wanted for murder in the US remains a mystery that the highest Bush administration authorities are trying to unravel. As the Financial Times revealed this week, Mr Levinson disappeared on March 8 after a six-hour meeting on the Iranian island of Kish with Dawud Salahuddin, an American who converted to Islam and was...