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Geraldo Rivera was issued a trespass warning on Saturday Fox News anchor Geraldo Rivera was issued a trespass warning after a contentious interview with the father of a missing Putnam County girl. As the search for 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings entered its 13th day, the county was abuzz about the contentious interview with her father Saturday night with Rivera. Cummings got upset when Rivera said he'd been told by members of Haleigh's mother's family that Cummings hit the child and has said he is 75 percent sure he knows who has her.

"What we've been told is that he's a sexual pedophile," said Haleigh's mother Crystal Sheffield. The child's grandmother, Teresa Neves, said Croslin described him as a "jerk" and she was worried. "I couldn't tell you anything about him," a distraught Neves told reporters Friday, adding that she only knew of the cousin by his first name Joe. "I can't tell you how they could have taken her from a family that absolutely adores her."

Authorities were trying to track down Texas billionaire financier Allen Stanford on Thursday, as fraud charges against the cricket impresario prompted panicked investors to withdraw cash from his banks..... Two days after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused Stanford, 58, of perpetrating "a fraud of shocking magnitude," officials were still in the dark about his whereabouts - as were close members of his family....

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – Scientists have found fossil remains of an omnivorous dinosaur in Argentina -- a missing link to the carnivores, a researcher said Monday. "It is an omnivore -- in other words it ate everything (plants and meat) -- which is the missing link between carnivorous dinosaurs and giant four-footed herbivores," said Oscar Alcober, also director of the Natural Sciences Museum in San Juan, 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) west of Buenos Aires. "This is a very important piece of the puzzle on the origin of dinosaurs," said Alcober. Alcober and Ricardo Martinez, chief of the museum's paleontology division,...

WASHINGTON – The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico is missing 69 computers, including at least a dozen that were stolen last year, a lab spokesman said. No classified information has been lost, spokesman Kevin Roark said. The watchdog group Project on Government Oversight on Wednesday released a memo dated Feb. 3 from the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration that said 67 computers were missing, including 13 that were lost or stolen in past 12 months.

A missing 5-year-old Florida girl was most likely abducted from her home in rural Florida, police said Wednesday. Haleigh Cummings, 5, went missing Monday night from her home near Orlando, police said. Haleigh Cummings has been missing since 3 a.m. Tuesday, when her father's girlfriend called 911 to say the child had vanished from her Putnam County home. "There's no longer any reason to believe that the child simply wandered outside," said Putnam County Sheriff's Office Maj. Gary Bowling. The police must "assume abduction," he said. "All the answers to why you'd want to take a 5-year-old are ugly," Bowling...

In some of the strongest language to date, the director of a Minneapolis mosque has again rebuffed rumors that its leaders could be connected to the recent disappearances of up to a dozen young Somali men. "We have nothing to do with these kids who left," Farhan Hurre, director of the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in south Minneapolis, said Monday. "I mean, we don't know the time they left, we don't why they left, we don't know who convinced them to go there. We don't know if somebody financed them or is working with them. We just don't know." Hurre's...

A woman missing for 12 years has been discovered living rough in woods in Switzerland. The 52-year-old German, who reportedly has two children, was found living in a shelter made from an umbrella and tarpaulin near Bolligen, on the outskirts of the Swiss capital Bern, police in Switzerland said today. She appeared to be in good physical condition despite having lived there for a year. It was unclear where she has spent the rest of her missing years, or why she abandoned her old life and family. Jürg Mosimann, a spokesman for Bern police, said the woman was discovered by...

VICTORIA Cross recipient Trooper Mark Donaldson is not just a national hero but a young man who has overcome extraordinary tragedy. Residents of Dorrigo in northern NSW are so proud of Australia's latest Victoria Cross recipient that grown men shed tears in the street late last week. Trooper Donaldson, 29, was 19 and his brother Brent 20 when they were orphaned. Their mother Bernadette, widowed after the death of her husband Greg from a heart attack three years earlier, disappeared after planning to fly to the Gold Coast for a holiday. She never made her flight, and her disappearance -...

Homicide detectives will today search bushland at Bellingen, on the New South Wales mid-north coast, as part of a cold case investigation into the suspicious death of a woman more than 10 years ago. Police say Bernadette Donaldson, 46, had planned to fly to the Gold Coast in April of 1998. But Ms Donaldson never made her flight and has not been seen since. Today, officers will start clearing bushland at Bellingen looking for possible skeletal remains. The search is expected to take about a week, and comes after a coronial investigation in 1999.

A Florida money manage who had--emphasis on had--$350 million under management has gone missing. Arthur Nadel, principal of Sarasota, Fl.-based Scoop Management, left a note stating that he was distraught. Authorities have begun an investigation into the absence of what may be hundreds of millions of dollars. Nadel was a real estate developer who graduated from New York University Law School, according to Bloomberg. He subsequently underwent a career change, metamorphosing into some kind of algorithmic trader whose math apparently did not add up as expected. When the bulls are running, every man jack with a calculator and credit card...

NEW YORK – Federal investigators said both engines are missing from the US Airways jetliner that ditched into the Hudson River as reports emerged that the pilot who safely landed the aircraft had considered an emergency landing at two airports. Police divers were using sonar to find the engines, which was believed to be in the water. As investigators scoured the wreckage of the Airbus A320, many of the 155 people aboard recounted survivor stories and hailed the pilot as a hero who delivered them from certain death. The pilot, Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, was in good spirits and...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A U.S. senator revealed Tuesday that he believes a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran nearly two years ago is being held in a secret prison there. Sen. Bill Nelson shed new light on the disappearance of Robert Levinson during a confirmation hearing for Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington. Levinson, of Coral Springs, Fla., was last seen on Iran's Kish island in March 2007 where he had gone to seek information for a client of his security firm.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The man who demanded $54 million because his dry cleaners misplaced his pants is again appealing to the District of Columbia's highest court. Roy Pearson, a former administrative law judge who lost his job during the course of his lawsuit, petitioned the D.C. Court of Appeals for another hearing on his case Tuesday. A three-judge panel of the Court rejected his appeal of a lower court ruling on Dec. 19. Pearson, who wants the entire roster of judges to participate in the rehearing, said the panel did not acknowledge three of the four aspects of his...

EL DORADO, Kan. | The adoptive parents of a missing Kansas boy who failed to report his disappearance nearly a decade ago are considered “people of interest” in the case as authorities expand their search nationwide, a sheriff said Monday. Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy told reporters no charges would be filed immediately, while investigators focus on finding Adam Herrman. The boy was 11 when he disappeared in 1999 from a mobile home park in Towanda where he lived with his adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman. “We are not sure what happened to Adam Herrman,” Murphy said. “We are...

Sgt. Faron White accused of staging vanishing act to cover up $2,500 theftAn Alabama policeman whose disappearance last week triggered search parties has turned up alive and well but under arrest in Las Vegas.

Rahm Emanuel is now on the political equivalent of the missing person’s list. Since his name emerged as one of the players in the “pay to play” corruption allegations against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) last month, Emanuel has rarely been seen, and hasn’t been heard from at all, except to perfunctorily submit a letter to Speaker Pelosi, and resign his House seat, so he can take the position of White House chief of staff in the forthcoming Obama administration. But, it’s really no wonder why Emanuel has chosen to live his life underground. According to published reports, Emanuel is...

DECATUR, Ala. -- Decatur police are searching for one of their own who went missing from his office Friday night. Officers found signs of a struggle between Sgt. Faron Eugene White and another person in his office at the Decatur Police Department Training Center, where he was working alone that night, police spokesman Lt. Jonathan Green said in a statement this morning.

MIAMI | A Norwegian Cruise Line cruise ship at the center of a missing person mystery returned to the Port of Miami on Sunday morning, where FBI agents stood waiting. Sunday they launched an investigation into the disappearance of Jennifer Seitz, 36, who was a passenger aboard the Norwegian Pearl, officials said. “We’re looking to see if a crime was committed on the high seas,” said FBI Special Agent Michael Leverock. He added that agents interviewed numerous passengers and crew members Sunday morning and searched the cabin Seitz was staying in for any potential clues to what may have happened...

Raccoon causes carbon monoxide fatality in East Sandwich By Ira Kantor | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage A 62-year-old East Sandwich man was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his home Sunday morning after a raccoon crawled into his chimney flue and blocked it, police and fire officials said. “He was of such a size that it was a complete blockage of the products of combustion from the gas appliance,” said Sandwich Deputy Fire Chief Tom Corriveau. “So there was nowhere for them to go but back into the residence.” The victim was identified as...