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MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Police looking for the remains of up to seven girls who have been missing for decades stopping digging Tuesday in suburban Detroit, suspending a multi-day effort while they decide whether to search elsewhere in Michigan or resume the excavation in roughly the same area. Authorities repeatedly have said they're confident they will solve the cold cases, raising the hopes of anxious family members who are desperate to learn what happened to their loved ones. The timeout could last a week, Warren Mayor James Fouts told The Associated Press. "I'm disappointed, obviously, there was not a...

ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) — Two South Dakota girls on their way to an end-of-school-year party at a gravel pit in May 1971 drove off a country road and into a creek where their remains lay hidden until last fall when a drought brought their car into view, authorities said Tuesday.

I haven't noticed what party these dregs of the earth belonged to and who they voted for and supported in past elections, but I really think this is important. As well as are they illegal aliens?

OREGON CITY, Ore. -- Ward Weaver's lawyer says his client gave permission Friday for the search of his property that will continue Sunday. Timothy Lyons tells The Oregonian that Weaver gave his consent because he wanted to "bring closure to the families" of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis. Weaver -- who is jailed on an unrelated rape charge -- has not been charged in the disappearances of the 13-year-old girls. They vanished last winter. Human remains were found in a shed on Weaver's property yesterday -- but authorities aren't saying if the body is that of either missing girl. It...

BREAKING NEWS: Human Remains Found at Weaver's Home 08/24/2002 By DOUG IRVING, kgw.com Staff Investigators found the apparent remains of a single body hidden in a backyard shed as they searched Ward Weaver’s former property Saturday for evidence of two missing girls. Police had not identified the remains. Search crews continued to search a concrete slab behind Weaver’s Oregon City house, not far from the apartment complex where Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis disappeared. Weaver had identified himself as a top suspect in the months-old case, but had denied any involvement. He was jailed earlier this month on unrelated rape...