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ESCONDIDO, Calif. – Authorities in Southern California say the skeletal remains of a 14-year-old girl who disappeared a year ago while walking to school have been found in a remote area of the Pala Indian Reservation. Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher said Amber Dubois' bones were found early Saturday and positively identified through dental records later in the day.

The president of a Houston energy company disappeared in New Orleans early Friday, according to police who are trying to get surveillance video from the Bourbon Street area where colleagues last saw him. Douglas Schantz, 54, is president of Houston-based Sequent Energy Management, one of the largest wholesale gas marketers in the country. Colleagues last saw Schantz wearing a blazer and tie between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Friday in a Bourbon Street bar, Assistant Police Superintendent Marlon Defillo said on Saturday. His wife reported him missing after he failed to meet his daughter for a flight home later that...

A 14-year-old Georgia girl who had been missing for more than a week was found Wednesday night when police raided a house in a community not far from her home. Amber Graham of Aragon, Ga., was found in a house in the nearby town of Rockmart. Police, using a search warrant based on a tip, arrested the occupants of the home: Stacie Fennell and her 15-year-old son, who was identified as the girl's boyfriend. Authorities said Amber was unharmed. Fennell and the boy, who was not named because he is a juvenile, have been charged with obstruction of justice, hindering...

Police in the small Georgia town of Aragon are stepping up the search for Amber Graham, a 14-year-old ninth grader who vanished eight days ago. U.S. Marshals and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation will be joining what has been a low-key search for the last seven days as concern for the girl’s safety mounts, Aragon Police Captain Dwayne Alexander said. According to the girl's godmother, Ruthann Battles Dabbs, Amber's mother last saw her in her bedroom at 11:20 p.m. on Saturday Feb. 20. The girl said she would be ready for church in the morning. Amber's mother looked into the...

SAN DIEGO — BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: A body was reported found in Lake Hodges this afternoon during the search for missing teen Chelsea King. The news broke shortly after the San Diego County Sheriff's Department postpone a news conference that had been scheduled for 3 p.m. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. MORE DETAILS WILL BE POSTED AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. The hundreds of volunteers gathered Tuesday morning to help search for missing Poway teenager Chelsea King are sticking to their message -- “Bring Chelsea Home” -- even though the unspoken fear is that it may not be possible to...

Clothing Belonging to Missing Teen, Chelsea King, Found Near Lake KTLA News March 1, 2010 POWAY, Ca -- Divers are searching a lake are surrounding shoreline near the location where investigators found a piece of clothing belonging to missing Poway teenager Chelsea King. The evidence has not been described by law enforcement but Chelsea's mother told news stations Monday that her daughter's underwear was found in the Lake Hodges area. King, 17, vanished after she went for a run last Thursday in San Diego's Rancho Bernardo Community Park. Today, local agencies aided by divers from the Los Angeles Bureau of...

Arrest Made in Case of Missing California Girl By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: February 28, 2010 SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Authorities say a registered sex offender has been arrested in the disappearance of a missing suburban San Diego teenager. San Diego County Sheriff William Gore tells The Associated Press that 30-year-old John Albert Gardner of Riverside County was arrested Sunday afternoon. He says investigators suspect Gardner is tied to the disappearance of 17-year-old Chelsea King of Poway, who went for a run on Thursday and didn't return. Gore says investigators linked Gardner to the crime through physical evidence recovered by...

A Canadian nuclear scientist who has not been seen for more than a month has simply vanished, leaving "absolutely no trace at all," police say. Lachlan Cranswick, 41, a physicist from the Chalk River Laboratories nuclear facility in Ottawa, was last seen on Jan. 18, when he left his job and boarded a bus to Deep River, his hometown along the Ottawa River with a population of roughly 4,300. Later that day, or possibly the next morning, Cranswick took out the garbage -- and the single man described as a meticulous loner has not been seen since.

Massive Search Underway for Missing California Honor Student Scores of volunteers searched a California lake on Sunday for signs of a missing teenager in what San Diego authorities called an unprecendeted response to a missing persons case. Chelsea King, [Pic in URL] a 17-year-old honor student at Poway High School in Poway, Calif., about 25 miles north of San Diego, disappeared Thursday while on an after-school run through Rancho Bernardo Community Park, Fox5SanDiego.com reported. Authorities said Chelsea, a senior and long-distance runner, was last seen at 2 p.m. Thursday before setting out on a routine several-mile jog along an extensive...

A Canadian nuclear scientist who has not been seen for more than a month has simply vanished, leaving "absolutely no trace at all," police say. Lachlan Cranswick, 41, a physicist from the Chalk River Laboratories nuclear facility in Ottawa, was last seen on Jan. 18, when he left his job and boarded a bus to Deep River, his hometown along the Ottawa River with a population of roughly 4,300. Later that day, or possibly the next morning, Cranswick took out the garbage -- and the single man described as a meticulous loner has not been seen since.

TORONTO - There are still no leads in the case of an eastern Ontario scientist who disappeared without a trace last month, leaving his colleagues mystified. Lachlan Cranswick hasn't been seen since Jan. 18, when he left work at the National Research Council's Canadian Neutron Beam Centre in Chalk River, northwest of Ottawa. His nearby Deep River house was reportedly left unlocked and his car was in the garage. His wallet, keys and passport have all been accounted for......

Sarah Silverman, Alyssa Milano, Dave Holmes and other celebrities have been tweeting and blogging for information leading to the whereabouts of actor and comedian Andrew Koenig, best known for playing Boner on "Growing Pains." VH1's "Best Week Ever" star, Doug Benson broke from his usual comedic updates to tweet, "On a serious note, my buddy Andrew Koenig was last seen in Vancouver on Feb 14. If anybody knows where he is send me a message." The celebrity tweets point to a blog post written by radio host Jesse Thorn with details about Koenig's disappearance. The post reads: "Andrew Koenig has...

(CNN) -- The remains of two people have been found in an Austin, Texas, building where a man crashed a small plane, authorities said. The identities of the two dead people have not been confirmed, the Austin Fire Department said in a statement. Two other people who were injured in the incident were taken to a hospital, and 11 others were treated for minor injuries, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said. Authorities said Andrew Joseph Stack III, 53, an Austin resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service, set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a...

2/17/2010 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The first woman to serve as major general in the Air Force, and the Department of Defense, passed away Feb. 15. Retired Maj. Gen. Jeanne M. Holm is credited as the single driving force in achieving parity for military women and making them a viable part of the mainstream military. The Portland, Ore., native attained the rank of two-star general in 1973 after a career that began 31 years earlier in 1942 when she enlisted in the Army. General Holm entered Women's Army Air Corps in January 1943 where she received a commission as third...

"We'll get you," Diena Thompson said today on "Good Morning America." "And, hopefully, justice will be served."

The state medical examiner has confirmed the remains found on an Albemarle County Farm Tuesday are those of Morgan Harrington. Virginia State Police say the confirmation was made using dental records provided by the family and say the investigation continues into the time and cause of death.... Lt. Joe Rader, the lead investigator in Harrington's disappearance, said the area where the remains were discovered had not been searched previously. He added that the missing person case was now most likely a homicide. He said investigators were combing the area carefully, saying it was "imperative to maintain the sanctity of the...

The parents of Morgan D. Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student missing since October, have been called to a farm off U.S. 29 south of Charlottesville, where police are investigating the discovery of skeletal remains.

Skeletal remains were found this morning in Albemarle County and police investigators are on the scene. Officials have not yet released details. But authorities and volunteers conducted multiple searches in the area after the Oct. 17 disappearance of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. Harrington, 20, went missing outside a Metallica Concert at the University of Virginia's John Paul Jones Arena in nearby Charlottesville. We will update as we learn more. Here is the statement from Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller: "Virginia State Police and Albemarle County Police are currently on the scene of the discovery of skeletal remains in...

Carol Orrell has been waiting 42 years for answers about the disappearance of her husband, Navy Seaman Gilbert J. Graham, who served in the Vietnam War. On September 28, 1967, Graham, 21, was on river patrol when enemy forces launched a B-40 rocket into his boat, only 8 feet from him. After the third rocket, the boat exploded into flaming scraps of metal. The boat ride was supposed to be his last assignment before being discharged the next morning, Orrell said. She had received a letter days earlier from her husband, who couldn't wait to return home to start a...

The parents of Britney Gengel, the college student from Rutland still missing after the Jan. 12 eathquake in Haiti, returned home yesterday from a nine-day vigil at her Florida campus after hearing from the US State Department that the mission has shifted from rescue to recovery, leaving slim chances of finding any survivors. “They will start pulling the building apart layer by layer,’’ Leonard Gengel read from a statement yesterday at Logan International Airport, referring to the hotel where his 20-year-old daughter had been staying when the 7.0 earthquake hit. His voice breaking, he said, “We are asking our government...