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Ill. police say teen held captive 2 years escapes
A teenage girl reported missing more than two years ago escaped from a home in southwestern Illinois where she said she was held captive and ...
Nevada teen missing after Southwest flooding
A teen was swept away in a drainage wash in the Las Vegas area and remained missing, and two people were rescued from a van stranded in high water in ...
2 survive to tell of Sri Lankan abduction squads
The politician knew something was amiss when a suspicious white van pulled alongside him at a Colombo park and four men got out, pretending to ...
Boy dies, brother missing in river in Yosemite
Authorities were searching a stretch of the Merced River for a 6-year-old boy after his older brother died when a current swept them away during a ...
NYer accused of faking own death pleads not guilty
The attorney for an unemployed New York man suspected of faking his own drowning denied Wednesday that his plan included a plot to collect on a life ...
Judge again considering Drew Peterson mistrial
The judge at Drew Peterson's murder trial on Tuesday lambasted prosecutors who for the third time in as many weeks broached a subject they were told ...
Man charged with murder of UK schoolgirl
The partner of the grandmother of a missing British schoolgirl was charged Saturday with the 12-year-old's murder, police said. The charge came as ...
Son of NY man who vanished at beach arrested
A man who reported his father missing at a New York beach was charged Monday with insurance fraud and filing a false report several days after his ...
Wife: Emails show NY man plotted to fake his death
A jobless man who was reported missing after going for a swim in New York — only to turn up days later speeding down a South Carolina highway — had ...
Peterson's murder trial follows years of acrimony
One relative of Drew Peterson's long-missing fourth wife calls him a dog who deserves to be chained. The boorish, motorcycle-loving ex-police officer ...
Judge delays trial for father of missing Iowa girl
A judge has delayed a drug and domestic abuse trial on charges pending against the father of one of two missing Iowa cousins. District Judge Andrea ...
Station to submit video in Iowa missing girls case
The news director of an Iowa-based NBC affiliate said Thursday that the station would turn over footage of its interview with the mother of one of two ...
Dad of missing Iowa girl faces trial amid search
The father of one of the two missing Iowa cousins could learn Friday whether he must stand trial next week on domestic abuse or drug charges, raising ...
Mom of missing Iowa girl says she passes polygraph
After submitting to a second polygraph test, the mother of one of two missing Iowa cousins said Monday the results should prove that she had nothing ...
Unidentified bodies, missing cases mount in Mexico
After police found 49 dismembered bodies strewn on a Mexican highway leading to the Texas border, it took the army just a week to parade an alleged ...
Tough questions after Beijing rain storm kills 37
As China's flood-ravaged capital dealt with the aftermath of the heaviest rain in six decades Monday, including the deaths of 37 people, questions ...
Sheriff: Katherine Jackson is safe, with family
Katherine Jackson, the mother of Michael Jackson and guardian of his three children, is safe and with a family member in Arizona, authorities said ...
Search for missing Iowa girls will likely expand
Law enforcement officials will likely expand their search for two missing Iowa cousins now that the girls' disappearance is considered an abduction ...
Authorities believe missing Iowa girls are alive
Authorities searching for two missing Iowa cousins have information that leads them to believe both girls are still alive, an FBI spokeswoman said ...
Iowa missing girls case now considered abduction
Investigators reclassified the disappearance of two missing Iowa cousins as an abduction case Friday after an FBI dive team failed to find their ...
Abduction fear grows for missing Iowa cousins
Family members of two young girls who went missing in northeastern Iowa are beginning to wonder whether the cousins were abducted, after days of ...
Lake drained in search for Iowa cousins, 8 and 10
Authorities began draining an Iowa lake Monday in the search for two missing girls whose bicycles were found nearby, but they suspended a massive ...
Boat crash on central NY lake kills father, 2 sons
A motorboat struck a buoy on a central New York lake during a nighttime outing, killing a 66-year-old man and two of his adult sons, authorities said ...
Man charged with assaulting Mich. boy found dead
A 20-year-old man was charged Friday with beating and dragging a 4-year-old just weeks before the child's body was found under the porch of his ...