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Missing Cisneros is fugitive By ASHLEY RICHARDS , LAREDO MORNING TIMES For more than three years, Brenda Y. Cisneros has been one of the commonly known faces of Laredo's Missing. But according to the U.S. Marshals Service, she is also a fugitive.A wanted poster recently re-circulated among U.S. law enforcement, identifying Cisneros as wanted on two arrest warrants related to illegal drug possession. She should be considered armed and dangerous, the wanted poster states, and notes that Cisneros was last seen on Sept. 17, 2004. That last-seen date was her 23rd birthday and the day her family said she and...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Dozens of friends, family members, former classmates and complete strangers searched for a missing 24-year-old Tuesday night, but Kyle Fleischmann is still missing. He disappeared five days ago after leaving an Uptown bar. At last check there are no solid leads and no contact with him. Tuesday, nearly 100 people searched, holding flyers, pictures and maps. It's guess work. "How far are you going to walk with no coat? I would be looking to get indoors any way I could,” said family friend Kandace Hopper while searching in Uptown. "To see anybody go missing like this is...

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Reward offered as 2-state search continues for missing Lincoln teen By Chris Norwood 11-09-2007 As the search for missing Donoho School senior Ben Stanford continued into its fourth day Thursday, some new information became available, but the 17-year-old Lincoln resident had still not been found. ERA King Real Estate, where his mother, Lynne Stanford, works, has announced a $20,000 reward for valid information “leading to Ben’s safe return,” according to a mass e-mail that went out Thursday evening. According to Talladega County District Attorney Steve Giddens, who is heading up the multi-agency investigation, Stanford was last seen Monday between 7:30...

NEOSHO, Mo. — Two men have been arrested in the death of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found Friday in a hillside cave in southwest Missouri, authorities said. Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland identified one as a 24-year-old male and the other as a man of about the same age. Their identities were not released because charges have not yet been filed, Copeland said. The body of Rowan Ford was found on private land about 10 miles south of the girl's hometown of Stella, a village of about 200 people, Copeland said. He said authorities were still determining how...

OZARK, Mo. (AP) — A 9-year-old southwest Missouri girl missing for a week was found dead Friday in a sinkhole in eastern McDonald County, a law enforcement official said.

UPDATE: Sheriff holds another press conference Thursday afternoon on missing person case By Todd G. HigdonDaily News Staff Writer In the sixth day of the search for missing Rowan Ford, 9 of Stella, Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland informed the media at 3 p.m., Thursday, that Ford has not been found. "We have covered a lot of ground, followed up a lot of leads," said Copeland. "From day one, we were in assistance with the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Today, they offered assistance with another 25 personnel." That brings personnel to 75 outside agency agents and officers. Law enforcements personnel...

WASHINGTON -- The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is unable to find or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan's White House years because a "near universal" security breakdown left the artifacts vulnerable to pilfering by insiders, an audit by the National Archives inspector general has concluded. Inspector General Paul Brachfeld said that his office was investigating allegations that a former employee stole Reagan memorabilia but that the probe had been hampered by the facility's sloppy record-keeping. "We have been told by sources that a person who had access capability removed holdings," Brachfeld said in an interview. "But...

9-year-old Stella girl missing By Jeff Lehr jlehr@joplinglobe.com STELLA, Mo. — Law officers and volunteers spent several hours Sunday searching in vain for a 9-year-old girl who disappeared from her home in Stella late Friday or early Saturday. Rowan Ford was last seen inside her home at 777 Grove St. about 10:45 p.m. Friday, Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland said. She is the daughter of Colleen Spears and stepdaughter of David Spears, and is a fourth-grader at Stella Elementary School, Copeland said. Investigators found no signs of a crime scene at the Spears residence, and no charges had been filed...

Copeland suspects foul play in child's disappearance By John Ford / Daily News Managing EditorPublished: Monday, November 5, 2007 4:34 PM CSTE-mail this story | Print this page Rowan Ford, 9, has been missing from her home in Stella since Friday evening. If you have any information about her, please call the Newton County Sheriff's Office at 451-8300 or 451-4242. COURTESY PHOTO Foul play is suspected in the disappearance of a 9-year-old Stella girl who has been missing from her home since late Friday night. Rowan Ford, 9, was reported missing at 6:50 p.m. Saturday by her mother and step-father...

BOLINGBROOK, Illinois (CNN) -- Police are using tracking dogs, airplanes, infrared sensors and volunteers on foot Tuesday to look for a young mother who disappeared nine days ago, leaving her 4- and 2-year-old children behind. Stacy Peterson, 23, has been missing from her suburban Chicago home since October 28. 1 of 2 Friends and relatives of Stacy Peterson, 23, say her disappearance is suspicious. Her husband of four years, Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson, 53, reportedly has told police his wife said she was leaving him for another man, and police are not treating the disappearance as a criminal investigation....

State Police are searching for the wife of a southwest suburban Bolingbrook police sergeant. "Because he's one of our officers, we thought it would be better to have an independent agency investigating," Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar said of the state's involvement in the disappearance of Stacey Peterson. It was not clear how long Peterson, the 23-year-old wife of Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson, has been missing. She was supposed to help a friend do some painting, but never showed up. Drew Peterson's previous wife, 40-year-old Kathleen Savio, was found dead in the dry bathtub of her Pheasant Chase home in...

Mystery of 'missing' Shakespeare portrait 30 October 2007 NewScientist.com news service It is the kind of argument William Shakespeare himself would have enjoyed. On one side is a claim that a famous portrait of the Bard has gone missing and been replaced by a fake. On the other side, the claim is dismissed as nonsense. The row is over a painting of Shakespeare known as the Flower portrait. Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel from the University of Mainz, Germany, examined the portrait in 1996 and pronounced it an authentic representation of Shakespeare, painted in 1609. In 2006, the National Portrait Gallery in London...

A spokesman for the McCann family has refused to comment on allegations they used some of the Madeleine fund to pay their mortgage. The statement comes after the Daily Mail reported that the family’s spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, confirmed: "part of the donations ... had been used to help with mortgage payments". Mitchell told Sky News the use of the money was in line with the fund's objectives, "to provide support, including financial assistance, to Madeleine's family". The Find Madeleine Fund has attracted more than £1 million (over $2 million) in public donations, to help find Madeleine McCann. However, use of...

BONNEY LAKE, Wash., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- D.B. Cooper, who infamously hijacked a plane and escaped by parachute with $200,000, lived the rest of his life in Bonney Lake, Wash., a new report said. In an upcoming article, Lyle Christiansen, 77, claims his late brother, Kenneth, was able to elude federal authorities after committing the sensational crime 36 years ago, The Tacoma (Wash.) News Tribune said Wednesday. The hijacker, who was given the name D.B. Cooper by investigators, hijacked a plane in 1971 and parachuted out of the aircraft after receiving a $200,000 ransom. The article details the late airline...

California authorities are trying to determine the whereabouts of at least 9 drivers involved in the deadly I-5 tunnel crash. Ten people injured in the crash were taken to area hospitals, another 10 escaped the flames uninjured, three others, including a 6 year old were killed in the crash. That totals 23 people, but the CHP says 31 vehicles were involved in the crash which leaves at least 9 drivers unaccounted for at this time. Warren Stanley of the California Highway Patrol, "We have to identify all the vehicles and determine who they belong to and based on registration we...

Spring Lake — Harnett County authorities said they located the remains of a missing 11-month-old girl in the attic of her house Saturday. She had apparently been dead for weeks. Authorities had issued a statewide Amber Alert on Friday after Harmony Jude Creech's grandmother reported her missing at 11:30 a.m.

CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- An autistic 18-year-old lost in the wilderness for four days was found alive Thursday, weak but apparently fine, and reunited with his family, searchers said. Jacob Allen, described as severely autistic, has reunited with his family. "To the best of our knowledge, he was just hungry and thirsty and fatigued," said Jim Reneau, one of the nine searchers who found Jacob Allen. Reneau spoke at a news conference at the command post near Davis, about 90 miles south of Pittsburgh. Allen, who wandered away from his parents while hiking Sunday, was found lying in a...

Authorities were working Monday to learn the identities of a number of survivors who apparently walked away from this weekend's fiery crash in an Interstate 5 truck tunnel, and, as far as officials are concerned, disappeared into thin air. At least nine unaccounted-for drivers are presumed to have been in the tunnel at the time of the massive chain-reaction crash that temporarily severed California's primary north-south traffic artery Friday night.

<p>CAMPBELLSBURG, Ky. — Kentucky State Police say a car belonging to an Ohio woman missing since April has been found along with skeletal remains on a farm in north-central Kentucky.</p> <p>Kentucky Trooper Chip Perry told The Associated Press today that the silver 2000 Chevrolet Impala is registered to 80-year-old Ada Wasson.</p>