Tracing Sri Lanka's missing children

2011-11-23T05:30:26Z

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

Actor Hugh Grant to speak at press inquiry

2011-11-21T06:30:20Z

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 hope about their missing...

'Entire press' in the dock, lawyer tells UK inquiry

2011-11-16T18:31:17Z

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 Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann and actor Hugh Grant have been granted special status in an inquiry into media ethics and practices, the probe said Wednesday.

They are among 46 "core participants" who will be ab...

J.K. Rowling given role in UK press inquiry

2011-09-14T13:30:38Z

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann and actor Hugh Grant have been granted special status in a British inquiry into media ethics and practices, the probe said Wednesday.

They are among 46 "core participants" who wil...

New York boy, 8, found slain, butchered

2011-07-13T19:30:44Z

A man was arrested Wednesday after confessing to killing and dismembering a missing 8-year-old boy in what the mayor called a "stunning shock" to New York City.

Levi Aron, 35, admitted to killing the boy, Leiby Kletzky, after being arrested early Wednesday following a search of his home, police chief Ray Kelly sai...

Madeleine McCann parents demand 'comprehensive review'

2011-05-11T18:31:14Z

The parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann on Thursday urged Prime Minister David Cameron to order a "comprehensive review" of the information surrounding their daughter's disappearance.

Kate and Gerry McCann wrote in a letter to The Sun that it was "not right that a young, vulnerable British...

I wanted to die: Madeleine McCann's mother

2011-05-09T20:30:21Z

Four years after toddler Madeleine McCann vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal, her mother describes in a book how she believes the abductor was tipped off about the family's movements.

Kate McCann reveals she thinks the case was sparked by a comment in a restaurant reservation book at the <...

Maddie mother speaks of 'endless bad dream'

2011-05-08T16:30:31Z

The mother of missing girl Madeleine McCann described how she was haunted by harrowing visions of her daughter and was stuck in an "endless bad dream" in extracts from a new book printed Sunday.

Proceeds from Kate McCann's account, "Madeleine", will go towards boosting dwindling search funds.

"The truly awful manifestation of what I was feeling wa...

China blog spotlights missing-child problem

2011-02-10T06:30:22Z

A Chinese website that helps parents find missing children has become a sensation, shining a light on child abductions and the growing power of Twitter-like Internet services in China.

The microblogging site swept into the national spotlight earlier this week when it was used to help reunite a young father with his six-year-old son, who had been missing for three years after being kidn...

FBI joins hunt in 23-year-old kidnap case, family says

2011-01-21T12:30:08Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal agents joined the hunt for a North Carolina woman who raised a child kidnapped 23 years ago and only reunited with her true family this week, the family said on Friday.

Authorities said they have been unable to locate the woman, Ann Pettway, who is on parole as part of an embezz...

Planes, dogs, psych experts seek 3 Mich. boys

2010-11-29T14:41:51Z

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Amber Alert issued for 3 Michigan brothers

2010-11-27T22:00:12Z

Police issue Amber Alert for 3 Mich. brothers; father says he gave boys to female acquaintance

Police say they fear three missing Michigan children are in "extreme danger," and they aren't ruling out their father as a suspect in their disappearance.

Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks told The Associated Press the father, Jo...

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2010-11-30T13:56:42Z

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Kate McCann

2010-11-30T13:52:53Z

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Zane Newton

2010-11-30T13:57:18Z

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Kody Lee Kaplon

2010-11-30T13:53:04Z

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Madeleine McCann

2010-11-30T13:53:26Z

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Lonnie Ramos

2010-11-30T13:53:22Z

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Jose Angel Olguin

2010-11-30T13:52:44Z

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Hser Nay Moo

2010-11-30T13:51:55Z

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Lindsey Baum

2010-11-30T13:53:18Z

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Haleigh Cummings

2010-11-30T13:51:41Z

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Ronald Cummings

2010-11-30T13:55:30Z

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NC Amber Alert Hoax

2010-11-30T13:54:22Z

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Madeleine McCann CCTV Video

2010-11-30T13:53:26Z

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Renesha Shante Griner

2010-11-30T13:55:20Z

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Smart kidnapping trial moving into 3rd week

2010-11-15T12:31:21Z

Trial of man charged with 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart moves into 3rd week

Recorded police interviews show that the man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart told investigators heaven was his home and God had delivered him a young girl to become as his wife.

Brian David Mitchell told police when he...

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2010-11-30T13:50:58Z

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Etan Patz

2010-11-30T13:51:00Z

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2010-11-30T13:50:57Z

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Francis Ann Collins

2010-11-30T13:51:13Z

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2010-11-30T13:50:03Z

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2010-11-30T13:50:43Z

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2010-11-29T15:45:07Z

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Book reviews: An Ice Cold Grave, by Charlaine Harris

2010-11-29T16:09:42Z

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Understanding the benefits of Amber Alerts

2010-11-29T15:42:37Z

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Nancy Grace settles lawsuit over woman's death

2010-11-08T15:01:18Z

Talk-show host Nancy Grace settles lawsuit over mother who killed herself after interview

The parents and estate of a young woman who shot herself after she faced harsh questioning from talk-show host Nancy Grace have dismissed a lawsuit against CNN and the host.

According to court records, the settlement call...

In All Things Give Thanks

2010-11-29T14:31:31Z

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2010-11-30T13:26:12Z

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2010-11-30T13:25:48Z

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2010-11-30T13:24:52Z

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Amber Alert

2010-11-30T13:20:34Z

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2010-11-30T13:25:02Z

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2010-11-30T13:25:07Z

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Abducted Latvia Boy

2010-11-30T13:24:48Z

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2010-11-05T06:41:32Z

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2010-11-29T15:25:35Z

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2010-11-04T15:16:59Z

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2010-11-04T15:04:16Z

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2010-11-29T15:07:58Z

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The story behind Wal-Mart

2010-11-04T13:44:30Z

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Police: New York man helped missing girl run away

2010-10-24T12:00:19Z

Police in upstate NY say man who helped search for missing girl actually helped her run away

Police in upstate New York say a man who helped search for a missing girl actually helped her run away.

The Times Union newspaper reported John Kwiatkowski of Amsterdam, N.Y., was arrested Saturday and charged with o...

Truckers: Stewards of AMBER Alert and GPS to Find Lost Children

2010-11-03T02:28:53Z

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2010-11-03T01:54:02Z

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Melissa Huckaby Suspected of Previous Offense

2010-11-03T03:21:38Z

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NC police seek medical records for missing girl

2010-10-19T12:00:48Z

Police in North Carolina seek medical records of missing girl originally from Australia

Investigators searching for a missing 10-year-old girl are seeking medical records from her native Australia, including details about an artificial leg she received after losing a limb to bone cancer.

Deputy Police Chief Maj. Clyde Deal i...

Abducted on Staten Island

2010-11-02T23:58:35Z

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Amber Alert Issued for Four Children in California

2010-11-02T19:35:33Z

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2010-11-02T22:15:59Z

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"The Alphabet Killer" Review

2010-11-02T19:13:21Z

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Special Needs - When Amendments are Necessary

2010-11-02T22:15:59Z

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The Next Door Neighbor{Part 1}

2010-11-02T17:19:37Z

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Book Review: After Etan by Lisa R. Cohen (Etan Patz, Jose Antonio Ramos)

2010-11-02T17:14:46Z

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Kidnapped and Missing Children

2010-11-02T19:35:32Z

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Missing and Murdered Children and the broken link

2010-11-02T19:35:32Z

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The Best Christmas Gift Anyone Can Give

2010-11-02T22:24:54Z

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Missing Children Statistics

2010-11-02T19:35:33Z

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Amber Alert Issued for four Nevada Children

2010-11-02T19:35:33Z

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4 year old found alone on Highway

2010-11-02T23:59:34Z

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Madeleine's mother in Portugal trip

2010-10-03T07:03:27Z

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LASVEGASSUN.COM

2010-09-14T02:15:32Z

Drunken drivers removed from

valley streets over weekend

A collaborative law enforcement effort to remove impaired drivers from Southern Nevada roadways

during the Labor Day weekend resulted in 45 arrests for drunken driving. Find additional coverage at

lasvegassun.com.

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How to Locate a Missing Child

2010-09-11T20:07:29Z

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Kan. coroner identifies charred body as teen girl

2010-09-08T12:34:05Z

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 conta...

Missing Persons Investigative Best Practices Protocol

2010-11-02T14:34:04Z

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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...

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 disapp...

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 wo...

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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.

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Have You Seen Me?

2010-11-02T13:45:35Z

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Verifying Information Online

2010-10-27T09:16:10Z

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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.

De...

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 ...

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 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

FAKE AMBER ALERT '72B 381' Spreads Far and Wide (and Fast) via SMS, Twitter, Facebook

2010-10-25T14:27:50Z

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New Zealand police dismiss possible McCann sighting

2010-03-04T00:17:04Z

New Zealand police Thursday dismissed a possible sighting of missing girl Madeleine McCann, more than two years after a report was passed on to Portuguese authorities.

The reported sighting came from a checkout operator at a shop in the southern city of Dunedin in December 2007, five months after Madeleine disappeared fr...

Investigators want Maddie McCann files from Portugal

2010-03-03T05:16:10Z

Files held by Portuguese police containing reported sightings of missing Madeleine McCann should be handed to investigators still searching for her, a family spokesman urged.

Several newspapers reported Wednesday that thousands of previously unseen pages of information passed to police after the case was closed had been released to them after they applied to a Portuguese court.

Madeleine's parents "Kate and Gerry...

Investigators need Madeleine McCann files: spokesman

2010-03-03T05:16:09Z

Files containing reported sightings of missing Madeleine McCann held by Portuguese police should be handed to investigators still searching for her, a family spokesman urged.

Madeleine's parents "Kate and Gerry...

Pa. girl's 25-year-old case lends hope to others

2010-04-16T07:00:39Z

Quarter-century-old case of Pa. girl who was 1st on national fliers lends hope to others

Cherrie Mahan was 8 when she vanished from a bus stop near her home. A picture of the smiling, brown-haired girl would be the first featured on direct-mail fliers like those now sent weekly to tens of millions of U.S. homes with a simple message — Have You Seen M...

Massive search launched for missing Arizona girl

2010-04-16T07:02:39Z

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Portuguese court confirms Madeleine McCann book ban

2010-04-16T07:04:19Z

A Portuguese court on Thursday banned a book on the disappearance of the British girl Madeleine McCann written by the police officer who led the initial probe, a lawyer for her parents said.

Kate and Gerry McCann brought a case against Goncalo Amaral over allegations he made in "Maddie: The Truth Of The L...

Missing girl libel trial to resume next month

2010-04-16T07:38:28Z

A libel trial pitting the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann against the Portuguese police officer who led the initial probe into her disappearance will reopen next month, the couple's lawyer said Thursday.

Kate and Gerry McCann are suing Goncalo Amaral for 1.2 million euros for defamation over alle...

Parents of Madeleine face accuser in court

2010-04-16T07:42:45Z

The parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann faced a former Portuguese police officer in a libel court on Tuesday over his claims that she is dead and that they were involved in her disappearance.

Goncalo Amaral, who led the initial stages of the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance in Portugal in May 200...

Parents of Madeleine McCann face accuser in court

2010-04-16T07:42:44Z

The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann faced a former Portuguese police officer in a libel court Tuesday over his claims that she is dead and that they were involved in her disappearance.

Goncalo Amaral, who led the initial stages of the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance in Portugal in Ma...

Missing British girl libel case opens in Lisbon

2010-04-16T07:43:08Z

Portuguese court hears libel claim against ex-detective who investigated missing British girl

A Lisbon court is hearing a libel case brought by the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann against a former Portuguese detective.

Kate and Gerry McCann are seeking euro1.2 million (US$1.7 mill...

How to Look for a Missing Person

2010-10-22T16:07:44Z

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Elizabeth Smart

2010-12-11T08:04:46Z

Elizabeth Smart, left, and her father Ed Smart, center look on as Elizabeth's mother Lois Smart talks to the media outside federal court following the guilty verdict in the Brian David Mitchell trial Friday, Dec. 10 2010 in Salt Lake City. Mitchell was found...

APTOPIX Elizabeth Smart

2010-12-11T08:04:46Z

Elizabeth Smart addresses the media outside the federal court house following the guilty verdict in the Brian David Mitchell trail Friday, Dec. 10 2010 in Salt Lake City. Mitchell was found guilty for the June 5, 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. (AP Photo/Colin E Braley)

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Elizabeth Smart Trial

2010-11-08T07:32:32Z

Elizabeth Smart leaves federal court with her sister Mary Katherine, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, in Salt Lake City, after trial proceedings for the man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart were halted. A federal appeals court interrupted the trial for B...

Remains Found

2010-11-04T20:01:52Z

Suellen Roberts, 31, mother of the missing 12-year-old Lexis Kaye Roberts, is seen in an undated photo provided by the FBI New Orleans. The FBI has issued a federal kidnapping warrant for

Missing Girl North Carolina

2010-10-14T15:02:17Z

A photo of missing 10-year-old Zahra Baker hangs on a fence as people gather for a vigil for her in Hickory, N.C., on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

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