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A 75-year-old man recently reported missing was rescued from an Orange County house early Wednesday where he claims he was held prisoner for 14 days without food after following a prostitute to the home for sex, WOFL Investigators said Lloyd Miles Bryant, of Jacksonville, told them he purchased a prostitute and brought her to a home the woman suggested located on 41st Street on Orange Blossom Trail. After the pair had sex at the residence, Bryant told police that he was jumped by four young black males.

A man was found dead Monday in the trunk of his own car, illegally parked on a Grand Rapids street. Victor Manious, 62, was found in the trunk of his Toyota Camry, according to a person close to his family. Manious is tied to Saint Mary and Saint Mina Coptic Orthodox Church on Kalamazoo Avenue. Police have been searching Manious' Gaines Township home, located in the upscale Crystal Springs subdivision. He lived there with his wife and daughter. Investigators took two bags of evidence and a computer from the home. Manious had been missing since Saturday.

The wife of an Alabama minister missing for more than four months has been located by police unharmed and working under an alias at a fast-food restaurant in New York state, authorities said Monday. Louisiana police located Mary Byrne Smith alive and well in New York state on Friday. The 30-year-old kindergarten teacher had been working under an assumed name at a fast-food restaurant. "We know it’s her," Bossier City Police Chief Mike Halphen said at a press conference Monday. "She did not want us to disclose the reasons why she left, and she did not want us to disclose...

Police are hunting three Iraqi doctors who went on the run in Glasgow after terrorists tried to blow up the city's airport. The men arrived in the UK in May to take part in a Government-backed training programme, but failed to turn up for their flights back to Baghdad earlier this month. They disappeared just two weeks after Bilal Abdullah, an Iraqi-trained doctor who worked at a Glasgow hospital, was arrested and charged with terrorist offences over the airport attack on June 30. He was a passenger in a Jeep driven by Kafeel Ahmed, an engineer who is being treated...

Missing Woman Found Alive Authorities Make Announcement Wednesday Afternoon POSTED: 3:44 pm CDT July 25, 2007

Excerpt - Japan: Report: Group Of Foreigners, Including American, Japanese, Italian, Go Missing In Indonesia TOKYO, JAPAN: The Japanese government declined to comment Wednesday (July 25th) on a report that a group of foreigners, including an American, Japanese and Italian, have gone missing in Indonesia, saying human lives may be at stake. Japan's Kyodo News agency reported Wednesday that a Japanese man and people from the United States, Singapore and Italy had gone missing on the island of Java. It cited unidentified government officials as saying they were investigating whether it was a possible abduction. ~ snip ~

The U.S. Embassy in Greece says DNA tests have identified the remains of three American divers missing since 1978 while exploring underwater caves. Two of the divers will be buried in Minnesota, where their parents are from. The remains of U.S. Air Force Sergeant Donald Michaud - along with 20-year-old Airman Jan Granroth and her 21-year-old brother Mark Granroth - were identified after extensive DNA analysis by the Department of Defense Armed Forces Medical Examiner. Funerals for the Granroths are scheduled for August fourth in Sebeka, about 45 miles northwest of Brainerd. Jan and Mark Granroth grew up in Sacramento....

Is this Earhart's final landing site? By Tom Leonard Last Updated: 2:05am BST 14/07/2007 Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1937 It is one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century. But today an expedition is heading for a remote South Pacific island that they believe holds the key to finally solving the 70-year-old puzzle of the missing aviator Amelia Earhart. Fifteen members of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (Tighar) will hunt for evidence that the American pilot and her navigator, Fred Noonan, may have crash-landed on a reef and...

Walter Reed patient Sgt. James Doyle went missing this afternoon after leaving a message he was suicidal, Washington, D.C. news station WJLA-TV reported tonight. He was last seen at a gas station in Montgomery County.Doyle, 25, served two tours in Iraq and is being treated at Walter Reed for PTSD. From video camera footage from the gas station, Doyle appears to be white. He was wearing a gray t-shirt, a black ball cap and sunglasses.

The person of interest is a 42-year-old sex offender from Thailand. He's currently being held for failing to register for an immigration violation and denies any involvement in Zina's disappearance. A search warrant reports investigators on Monday found a girl's undergarments at his home, where he lives alone. He responded to that news by saying he was remodeling the home for his sister.

The L.A. Times has appended the following paragraph to its online version of the story about Fred Thompson’s lobbying: An earlier version of this article included a passage in which Judith DeSarno said Fred Thompson reenacted a cowboy death scene from one of his movies. The version of the article that was printed in Saturday’s newspaper replaced the earlier, online version. That newer version omitted the reference, because confirmation of the name of the movie could not be made before the story got reprinted. Based on DeSarno’s account, the scene that she said Thompson reenacted appears to be from “Keep...

A Chicago television reporter’s job could be on the line after videotape surfaced of her at the home of missing mother Lisa Stebic. WMAQ reporter Amy Jacobson, who has covered Stebic’s story, was caught on tape by the pool at the Stebics' home last week by rival channel WBBM Channel 2. The tape reportedly shows Jacobson “in a swimming suit top” at the pool on Friday with her children and Lisa Stebic’s estranged husband, Craig

(Nolan vanished June 23 after drinking with friends) Fitchburg, WI - Police discovered a body Monday that they believe is Kelly Nolan, the 22-year-old woman who disappeared June 23 after a night of bar hopping in downtown Madison, in a wooded area at the edge of this capital city suburb. Dane County Coroner John Stanley said the body's appearance and the evidence surrounding it led him to conclude that it was "probably the missing person we've been looking for, Kelly Nolan," and that she had been murdered. Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said that as of Monday the Nolan investigation...

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...