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2010-08-31T02:15:17Z

Blackjack payouts drop, but oh, those
dancers! For every dollar wagered, players dealt a blackjack get $1.20 instead of $1.50. Or skip the math and look at the woman on stage.
Caesars to pay $250,000 over baccarat player's table walk. A customer playing in the high-limit baccarat room climbed onto the baccarat table from his chair.
10 suspected female gang members nabbed after crime spree. Women suspected to be members of the Lady Maccz, who sport the color pink and use monik...

Kan. coroner identifies charred body as teen girl

2010-08-26T11:30:15Z

Kansas coroner identifies charred body as 14-year-old girl missing since weekend

A severely charred body found at an asphalt plant in central Kansas is that of a 14-year-old girl who had been missing since the weekend, the attorney general said Thursday. At a news conference, Attorney General Steve Six asked for the public to contact authorities if they saw or contacted <...

Aboriginal elder leads police to body -- but wrong one

2010-08-19T13:38:08Z

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Aboriginal elder who claimed to have seen the location of a missing child in a dream has led Australian police to a body -- but it was not the corpse of a child but of an adult woman. Police believe the dismembered torso found wrapped in plastic at the Nurragingy Reserve at Doonside in western Sydney, a sacred Aboriginal site, is that...

Aussie psychic finds woman's body on hunt for girl

2010-08-19T13:38:05Z

Australian elder's 'psychic vision' fails to find missing girl but turns up dismembered body

An Aboriginal elder in Australia who said she had a psychic vision of where to find a missing 6-year-old went to the wooded location outside Sydney and instead found the dismembered torso of an older woman. The Aboriginal woman had been trying to find

Balkan river still bleeds the dead of wars past

2010-08-09T08:00:21Z

DJUREVICI, Bosnia (Reuters) - For generations, the River Drina separating Serbia from Bosnia has received the dead of the region's wars. Now, for the first time in decades, it is giving many of them up. In recent weeks, experts have started searching the exposed bed along both sides of Lake Perucac, a 60 ...

Woman arrested after boy's tumble dryer death

2010-08-04T08:15:20Z

A woman has been arrested following the death of a four-year-old boy from Derbyshire whose body was found in a tumble dryer, police have confirmed. Sonny Gibson was found dead at his home in Northcliffe Road, Ashbourne, on July 26 after he was reported missing from his garden. A 41-year-old woman was arrested on Friday, on suspicion of child neglect, and released on bail pending inquiries, Derbyshire police said. Media reports named th...

2 months later, where is Kyron Horman?

2010-07-31T09:15:12Z

The case of Kyron Horman takes bizarre twists, but the OR boy is still missing 2 months later

The unfolding case of missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman has taken some bizarre twists, but the essential question remains: Where is the child? Suspicion rests on the boy's stepmother, Terri Horman, who is mute about what happened the morning the child disappeared....

Police review handling of 911 call in Wright case

2010-07-30T09:15:14Z

Police in Memphis suburb review handling of mysterious 911 call in Lorenzen Wright shooting

Police in the Memphis suburb of Germantown are reviewing how a 911 call from Lorenzen Wright's cell phone was handled as authorities investigate the shooting death of the former US sailor who went missing in Afghanistan last week has been recovered, a US military official told AFP on Thursday. The discovery confirmed suspicions that both the American sailors who went missing in eastern Logar province last Fr...

Remains of 1 missing U.S. serviceman recovered: NATO

2010-07-27T01:00:22Z

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan and foreign forces have recovered the remains of one of two U.S. servicemen who went missing from their compound in Kabul last week, the NATO-led force said on Tuesday. "Afghan and coalition forces recovered the remains of a missing ISAF (AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The unsolved disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway from the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005 has been made into a film, with an expected release early next year. In a case that ...

Panamanian police identify body of US woman

2010-07-23T22:15:10Z

Panamanian police identify body of US woman missing since March

Panamanian authorities say they have identified the body of a U.S. woman who had been missing since March and are looking for a Texas man suspected in her death. Prosecutors' advisor Neftali Jaen says police on Friday identified the remains of Cher...

Mummified body found under S. California home

2010-07-15T10:01:32Z

Mummified body found under California home may be man missing since 2005

Los Angeles County authorities say a mummified body found under an empty home may be the remains of a man who went missing five years ago. County coroner's Capt. John Kades (KAY'-deez) says there's no sign of foul play. Con...

Prosecutors question insanity case in Smart kidnap

2010-07-08T08:45:41Z

Prosecutors doubt grounds for insanity defense for man charged in Elizabeth Smart kidnapping

Federal prosecutors want a judge to decide whether defense attorneys for the man charged in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart have sufficient evidence to seek an insanity defense. Defense attorneys for Brian David Mitchell said they would pu...

Insanity defense planned for suspect in Smart case

2010-07-02T09:00:20Z

Defense lawyer to portray accused Elizabeth Smart kidnapper as insane at trial

The man charged in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart will seek an insanity defense. Brian David Mitchell's lawyer filed the notice in federal court in Salt Lake City on Thursday. Defense attorney...

Dutch murder suspect confession stands: Peru judge

2010-06-26T12:15:57Z

A Peruvian judge has rejected a request by the Dutch suspect in last month's killing of a young woman to retract his murder confession. The lawyer for Joran van der Sloot, 22, claimed that a statement his client made confessing to the crime was made under duress and should be invalidated because it allegedly infringed upon his constitutional rights. But the Lima pen...

Dutch murder suspect keeps mum after retracting confession

2010-06-21T14:15:36Z

The Dutch suspect in last month's killing of a young woman in Lima refused to answer a Peruvian judge's questions Monday after his lawyer claimed a confession to the crime was made under duress. Joran van der Sloot "made no statement before the judge" who questioned him at the maximum-security Migue...

Dutch suspect keeps mum after retracting murder confession

2010-06-21T13:16:16Z

The Dutch suspect in the May killing of a young woman in Lima refused to answer a Peruvian judge's questions Monday after he retracted his confession to the crime in a prison cell interview. Joran van der Sloot "made no statement before the judge" who questioned him at the maximum-security Miguel Ca...

Dutch suspect to keep mum after retracting murder confession

2010-06-21T12:16:28Z

The Dutch suspect in the May killing of a young woman in Lima was due to appear before a Peruvian judge Monday after he retracted his confession to the crime in a prison cell interview. Joran van der Sloot, the long-time prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in

Report: Van der Sloot mentally ill, mother says

2010-06-20T18:30:20Z

Report: Murder suspect Van der Sloot has mental problems, his mother says

Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the murder of one woman and the disappearance of another, suffers mental problems, his mother was quoted Sunday as saying. Van der Sloot, a 22-year-old Dutchman, is suspected in the disappearance of American teenager Natal...

Aruba police seek discussion with Van der Sloot

2010-06-16T16:02:21Z

Aruba authorities seek to discuss Holloway disappearance case with Joran van der Sloot in Peru

Prosecutors in Aruba said Wednesday they want to take Joran van der Sloot up on his offer to discuss the unsolved disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holl...

Finns find mummified corpse in smoke stack

2010-06-14T08:16:37Z

Finns find mummified corpse in chimney, could be man who died nearly 20 years ago

Finnish police say they are investigating the mummified corpse of a man found in a smoke stack and believed to have died nearly 20 years ago. Detective Chief Inspector Juha Juurinen says a preliminary probe revealed it was the body of a 56-year-old man who went missing in 1991. Builders found the body on Sunday when they were ...

Missing Ala. teen's mom opens center for missing

2010-06-08T08:15:24Z

Mother of Ala. teen who disappeared in Aruba opens missing persons resource center in DC

The mother of an Alabama teen who disappeared in Aruba in 2005 is launching a resource center named for her daughter to help families of missing persons. Beth Holloway is scheduled to open the Father of missing Alabama teen calls for Van der Sloot to tell what he knows about case

Now that police in Peru say Dutchman Joran van der Sloot has confessed to killing a young woman in his hotel room, the father of Natalee Holloway says he should...

Search for Ore. boy who vanished from school grows

2010-06-06T20:30:16Z

Search for Oregon boy who disappeared from Portland school grows as police meet with parents

The FBI has joined an expanding search for a 7-year-old Oregon boy who vanished after his stepmother left him at his Portland elementary school on Friday morning. Detectiv...

Police confirm river remains are missing prostitute

2010-06-03T00:16:11Z

Police investigating the deaths of three prostitutes confirmed on Wednesday that human remains found in a river belong to one of the missing women. "Further exhaustive forensic tests carried out on a small piece of human tissue recovered from the River Aire over the weekend have confirmed that it is that of Shelley Armitage," Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is the prime suspect in the weekend murder of a Peruvian woman, police said Wednesday. Joran van der Sloot is being sought for Sunday's killing of 21-year-old

Police examine remains in search for Bradford women

2010-05-30T06:15:16Z

Police investigating the deaths of three women from Bradford conducted forensic tests on Sunday on remains found in a river as they said a suitcase full of tools had been recovered. The search team made the discoveries in the River Aire in Shipley, Yorkshire, a short distance from where the body of a prostitute Suzanne Blamires was found in the water on Tuesday. The missing...

More human remains found in search for missing women

2010-05-29T12:15:25Z

Police investigating the deaths of three women in Britain found what are believed to be human remains in a river on Saturday. The search team made the grim discovery in the River Aire in Shipley, a short distance from where the body of a prostitute, Suzanne Blamires, was found on Tuesday. Forensic tests were being ...

Cambodia's 'jungle woman' runs away from home

2010-05-28T04:45:05Z

Cambodia's 'jungle woman' runs away from home, believed to have returned to forest

A woman dubbed the "jungle woman" after emerging naked and unable to speak from the wilds of northeastern Cambodia three years ago has apparently fled back to the forest, her presumed father and police said Friday. Sal Lou, who claims to be the father of northern England, which has sparked feverish speculation about a new "Yorkshire Ripper". The man, who was arrested on Monday, is reportedly undertaking postgraduate research in criminology with a particular interest in serial killers. Officers have until Thursday evening to quiz him over the murder of three missing women from ...

Case of 1st missing child on milk carton reopened

2010-05-26T09:45:50Z

DA reopens case of 1st missing child on milk carton, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979

The Manhattan district attorney's office is reopening the decades-old case of a missing 6-year-old boy whose photo was the first to be put on a milk carton. Etan Patz (AY'-tahn payts) vanished May 25, 1979. He was last seen walking two blocks from his lower Manhattan home t...

Dad of missing Nepal hiker finds daughter's laptop

2010-05-20T13:45:29Z

Dad of missing Nepal hiker finds daughter's laptop, but no sign of the trekker

The father of a Colorado woman who went missing while hiking in Nepal has discovered her laptop and journal in the last hotel where she stayed. A friend of missing hiker Aubrey Sacco told UCLA when she actually quit more than a year ago, authorities said Thursday. Nancy Salas's disappearance prompted a massive search in Chevy Chase Canyon, the destination of her usual morning run in the area northeast of downtown Calif. police call off search for ex-UCLA student, call disappearance `suspicious'

California police have called off a ground search for a former UCLA student who went missing during a morning run, but they're still investigating her disappearance. Sgt. Tom Lorenz...

Nepal police search for missing US hiker

2010-05-13T10:02:05Z

Police search trekking trail in northern Nepal for Colorado woman missing on solo trek

Police are scouring a remote region in northern Nepal, searching for a Colorado woman who has been missing since last month when she failed to check in after a solo hike in the Himalayan mountains, an official said Wednesday. Aubrey

Mexico investigating US teen's death as homicide

2010-05-05T15:15:42Z

Mexico investigating death of Texas high school student as homicide

The body of a Texas high school student reported missing by her mother has been found in Mexico and police are investigating her death as a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. Elisabeth Mandala, 18, and two Mexican men were found dead Saturday in a crashed pickup truck near Mina, a town in the northeastern stat...

Actress' brother-in-law charged with killing wife

2010-04-29T20:15:17Z

Brother-in-law of Los Angeles actress charged with murdering his wife who vanished last year

The brother-in-law of actress Aasha Davis has been arrested and charged with murdering his wife, who has been missing for more than a year. Lyle Herring Sr. is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Los Angeles...

UK police have given up on Madeleine: McCanns

2010-04-28T06:15:30Z

The father of missing toddler Madeleine McCann said on Wednesday that British authorities had "essentially given up" on finding his daughter who disappeared during a family holiday to Portugal in 2007. In a television interview just days before the third anniversary of their child's disappearance, Madeleine's parents Gerry and K...

FBI, police up reward for missing Colo. girl

2010-04-19T16:46:49Z

FBI, police announce new $20,000 reward for tips about missing Colorado girl

The reward for information in the case of a 12-year-old northern Colorado girl missing since March 28 has been doubled to $20,000. Jim Davis, special agent in charge of the FBI's

Sheriff: 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings likely dead

2010-04-19T16:19:16Z

Sheriff says missing Fla. girl Haleigh Cummings is likely dead

The sheriff said Thursday that a 5-year-old girl who disappeared more than a year ago is likely dead, and he believes her body is somewhere along a stretch of river being searched by divers. Putnam County Sheriff

Investigators search river for missing Fla. girl

2010-04-19T14:47:52Z

Divers search murky Fla. river for 5-year-old girl who disappeared from mobile home last year

Investigators searched a murky river Tuesday for a 5-year-old girl who disappeared from her father's Florida mobile home more than a year ago. Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy would not say why the river was being searched. He said he met with members of Mexican parents suspected in death of 4-year-old daughter freed, but still under investigation

Mexican parents suspected in the death of their 4-year-old daughter were freed from detention Sunday but authorities said they remain under investigation. The body of Paulette Gebara Farah was found in her own bedroom more than a week after her parents reported her missing and launched a nationwide...

New Zealand Earthquake

2010-09-05T03:40:06Z

A searcher looks for a person reported missing amongst the rubble of a building after Saturday's earthquake at the corner of St Asaph and Barbadoes Streets in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch al...

Missing California Girl

2010-07-21T15:36:13Z

FILE - This undated file image provided by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department shows Norma Lopez, who has been missing since July 15, 2010, after failing to return from a summer school class. An unidentified body was found Tuesday, July 20, 2010, several miles from where Lopez disappeared. (AP Photo/Riverside County Sheriff's Depart...

Missing Oregon Boy

2010-07-08T19:30:30Z

Kaine Horman speaks about his missing son, Kyron Horman, during a news conference in Beaverton, Ore. on Thursday, July 8, 2010. Kyron has been missing since June 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

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Gates Great Britain

2010-06-09T13:02:19Z

Beth Holloway, mother of Natalee Holloway, speaks during the opening of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center (NHRC) at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, Tuesday, June 8, 2010....

Natalee Holloway Center

2010-06-08T13:01:19Z

Janine Vaccarello, right, Chief Operating Officer for the National Museum of Crime and Punishment, hugs Beth Holloway, left, mother of Natalee Holloway, during the opening of the

Missing Persons in the US