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China Airlines Plane Missing A China Airlines passenger aircraft is reported missing on a flight from Taiwan to Hong Kong. The aircraft was carrying more than 200 passengers and 19 crew onboard the 90 minute flight. More follows....

Remains found near Chandra Levy's home Police not clear if this is break in case of missing intern 05/22/2002 Associated Press WASHINGTON - A skull and other human bones were found in a park early Wednesday and police are trying to determine whether they are the remains of Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old former intern who disappeared more than a year ago. "The possibility exists that it's a female based on some preliminary work," Terrance W. Gainer, Washington's deputy police chief, said in a telephone interview from Rock Creek Park. "They have been here for some time." Gainer said he...

DNA Of Foster Child In Pasco Being Compared With Rilya'sBy LISA A. DAVIS ldavis@tampatrib.comPublished: May 14, 2002 PORT RICHEY - Investigators searching for Rilya Wilson, the girl who disappeared from state supervision 16 months ago, looked toward the Tampa Bay area during the weekend. Foster parents in west Pasco County called authorities Saturday night when they suspected a young girl in their care could be the Miami-Dade child who vanished in January 2001. The child is 5, the same age Rilya would be, and has similar features, including a scar near her abdomen, Port Richey police Lt. Bill Sager said...

The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic invites all FReepers and Lurkers in good standing to join us in a vigil outside the condominium where Chandra Levy lived until her disappearance a year ago. On Saturday, the D.C. Chapter decided to meet at the Newport condominium on May 1. We learned in the Sunday papers that Mr. and Mrs. Levy, Chandra's parents, will be at the Newport condominium that same day. We do not know what time they will arrive, but the D.C. Chapter will gather from 6 to 8 p.m. WHAT: Observance of One-Year Anniversary of Chandra Levy's Disappearance. WHERE:...

Panel: NASA Can't Manage Funds WASHINGTON -- Government and private auditors testified Wednesday that NASA has operated for years with an antiquated accounting system, making it almost impossible to track how billions of public dollars are spent. Since 1990, the General Accounting Office, Congress's investigative arm, warned lawmakers the space agency was headed for trouble without a modern financial management system. Yet for five years, the Arthur Andersen accounting firm gave the agency a clean bill of health. Last year, Price Waterhouse Coopers took over as NASA's independent auditor and determined the agency could not accurately account for expenses,...

Posted on Tue, Mar. 19, 2002 Tracing a path of deceptionStar-Telegram Last of three parts Jack Thomason's family believed that if they could find their missing father's money, they would find him. "As much as he loved his family and his money, there's no way he would walk off and leave them - especially not his veteran's pension, his Social Security and his trailer park," said Jack's cousin-in-law Odis Martin. A natural-born hustler and ex-Marine, Windsor "Jack" Thomason was 64 the last time he had a face-to-face conversation with one of his six grown children. Soon after that Christmas...

Posted on Mon, Mar. 18, 2002 Dead reckoning Little proof of life, and many signs of foul playBy JENNIFER AUTREY Star-Telegram Staff Writer Second of three parts The missing-person report was six months overdue. For months, the children of Windsor "Jack" Thomason of Rendon had been demanding that his fourth wife, Amanda, explain where he was. None of his six children had seen their father since Christmas 1991, although Amanda had passed along messages. As Amanda's excuses for his absence grew stranger - he suffered from exotic diseases, he was on the lam from gangsters or law enforcement -...

Posted on Sun, Mar. 17, 2002 Dead reckoning By Jennifer Autrey Star-Telegram Staff Writer `First of three parts' Even the children who love him admit that there are plenty of people who might have contemplated killing Windsor Denman Thomason. The rotund former Marine sergeant barked orders at everyone, occasionally bootlegged liquor from Mexico, laughed as he ejected deadbeat tenants from his trailer park and regularly spent time behind bars in the Tarrant County Jail. For decades, Jack, as he was called, vexed the police, his lawyer, his ex-wife and even his own children with his foolish hustles. Then he...

Nation: Husband still trying to locate missing Alzheimer's-afflicted wifeBAKERSFIELD, Calif. (March 10, 2002 7:41 p.m. EST) - Three months after his Alzheimer's-afflicted wife vanished at a busy Texas airport, Joe Dabney is still too heartbroken even to open her luggage. quot;All I want is my wife,quot; the 63-year-old said. quot;She really was the only woman I ever loved. I just want to know that she's OK, what happened.quot; Margie Dabney, 70, vanished after her plane landed Dec. 5 at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. She and her husband, who uses a wheelchair, were traveling on American Airlines from Indianapolis to Los...