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LOS ANGELES -- An AMBER Alert was issued for a Rialto man and his four children, according to the San Bernardino Police Department. In a news release on the San Bernardino Police Department Web site, police said they are looking for 28-year-old Joseph Anthony Sanchez in connection with the disappearance of the children.

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Sixteen Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were missing on Thursday in a region regarded as a hotbed of support for the Taliban and al Qaeda, and security officials feared militants may have abducted them. The men went missing while being transported back to their base in Jandola, 50 km (30 miles) east of Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, a semi-autonomous tribal land on the border with Afghanistan. "They were supposed to reach Jandola in the evening, but so far we have no information about their whereabouts," military spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad said. A security official in...

Footballers go missing in Denmark Danish police say the men will be arrested and deported if found Fifteen footballers who took part in the Homeless World Cup in Denmark have left their teams and gone missing, police and organisers say. Seven of the missing players are from Burundi, four from Liberia, three from Cameroon and one from Afghanistan. The men had entry visas that expired on Monday. Danish police say they will be arrested and deported if found. The Liberian team managed to win third place in the tournament despite having lost four of its players. The men may already...

Iran May Consider American's Request August 05, 2007 Associated Press Nasser Karimi TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's Foreign Ministry said Sunday it would consider allowing the wife of an American man who vanished in Iran earlier this year to visit the Islamic country to search for him. "The request has not officially been relayed to us yet. If it is conveyed, we will review it," ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters. On Thursday, Christine Levinson, the wife of missing former FBI agent Robert Levinson said she was planning to travel to Iran in search of her husband even though she...

NEW YORK — Christine Levinson's husband vanished while on a business trip to Iran. Five months later, she's going there to try to bring him back. The mother of the couple's seven children is planning her own trip to Iran in search of husband Robert Levinson even though she's been advised by the State Department not to travel to Iran because of the risk. "I am positive he is alive," Christine Levinson told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday from her home in Coral Springs, Fla. "If he were hospitalized or had been killed, we would have known by...

FAIRHOPE, Ala. — A minister's wife who disappeared from a religious conference in Louisiana, only to be located four months later living in New York, knows she made a "serious mistake" by leaving and has returned home to Alabama to be with her two children, her lawyer said Thursday. Mary Elizabeth Byrne Smith, 30, didn't plan her mysterious departure and acted upon "emotional distress in her personal life," attorney Robert Stankoski said in a statement released to the media at a news conference. "While her actions may have seemed illogical, it was a very difficult decision for Mrs. Smith to...

Pastor's wife back; news conference set Thursday, August 02, 2007By DAVID FERRARAStaff Reporter Mary Byrne "Beth" Smith, the small-town preacher's wife who drew attention from people around the nation while incognito for four months, has returned to Alabama. A 9 a.m. news conference has been called today at the office of Rob Stankoski, a Fairhope attorney she has hired, according to his office. Stankoski could not be reached for comment Wednesday. When she disappeared March 24 from a religious convention 500 miles from her Summerdale home, Smith left her husband, the Rev. Jason Lee Smith, and two children, ages 10...

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...