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Arizona student found after 9 days stranded in snow

(Reuters) - A college student stranded in her car for nine days on a barren northern Arizona road has been rescued after living on candy bars and melted snow, authorities said.

Arizona State University student Lauren Weinberg, 23, was found Wednesday by two U.S. Forest Service employees patrolling on snowmobiles, Coconino County Sheriff's Office patrol Lieutenant Jim Coffey said ...

Body in freezer identified as Maine woman missing for 28 years

(Reuters) - A body found stuffed in a Maine freezer in October was identified as that of a 29-year-old woman who went missing nearly three decades ago after a fight with her boyfriend, police said on Friday.

DNA testing results this week conclusively identified the remains as those of Kitty Wardwell, who disappeared in 1983, Maine state police spokesman Stephen McCausland ...

Singer Mindy McCready's son reported missing

TAMPA, Fla (Reuters) - A missing person's report has been filed for the son of country singer Mindy McCready and she has been ordered to return the boy by 5 p.m. Thursday, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Children and Families said on Wednesday.

McCready's mother, who lives in Cape Coral, Florida, has custody of McCready's ...

Suspect in Aruba disappearance back in United States

MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. businessman held for nearly four months on the Caribbean island of Aruba as a suspect in the disappearance of his girlfriend, flew back to the United States on Wednesday, arriving at Miami airport.

Gary Giordano, 50, whom other passengers said flew first class on the American Airlines flight from the Dutch Caribbean island, did not ...

Ex-fiance named as suspect in "The People's Court" case

ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - Police on Monday named a Florida man as the prime suspect in the disappearance of his ex-fiancee on the same day an episode of The People's Court aired showing the former couple arguing over a $5,000 engagement ring.

Michelle Parker, 33, was last seen November 17 in the Orlando area at about the time the ...

Madeleine McCann parents 'violated' by UK press

The parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann told an inquiry into press standards Wednesday that they felt "violated" by British tabloid newspapers which covered her disappearance in Portugal.

Newspapers questioned Kate and Gerry McCann's innocence based on flimsy facts and suggested they may have sold their daughter, they said, while Rupert Murdoch's News of the World published Kate ...

Tracing Sri Lanka's missing children

Two and a half years after the end of Sri Lanka's bloody ethnic conflict, hundreds of families displaced by the war are still engaged in a fraught, exhausting search for missing children.

Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians were caught up in the chaos of the military's ferocious final assault on cornered Tamil Tiger rebels in the ...

Actor Hugh Grant to speak at press inquiry

Actor Hugh Grant and the parents of a murdered schoolgirl whose phone was hacked by the News of the World tabloid newspaper will give evidence on Monday to an inquiry into the standards of the British press.

Milly Dowler's parents will tell a panel chaired by a senior judge of their heartbreak when a private investigator gave them false ...

A lawyer told an inquiry into British media standards Wednesday the entire press was in the dock, and the problems went beyond the News of the World phone-hacking scandal that sparked the probe.

David Sherborne listed a string of well-known figures, including Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, actor Hugh Grant and the mother of missing toddler Madeleine McCann who ...

As missing Kansas City baby turns 1, little progress seen

KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - The two half-brothers of missing baby Lisa Irwin were interviewed on Thursday afternoon for the first time since just after she was reported missing from her home more than a month ago.

The interviews, long sought by police, came on the eve of Lisa's first birthday Friday and at a time when the investigation has ...

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