Category Archives: Missing Persons

2nd bore hole reaches 33 trapped in Chile mine

By doris | Published: August 24, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com COPIAPO, Chile – Rescuers are lowering capsules containing rehydration tablets, glucose and oxygen down a long hole to 33 miners who surprised the world by staying alive while trapped a half-mile underground for 2 1/2 weeks. Raising hopes further Monday, a second bore hole punched into the chamber where the miners [...]

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Joke on boat leads to four deaths

By doris | Published: August 13, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Four men died after horsing around in a boat on a southern Idaho reservoir, authorities said late Monday. The bodies of four men were found Monday evening in the American Falls Reservoir in the same area where the men had fallen into the water a day earlier, said Cpl. [...]

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Second 2-year-old boy missing in Arizona

By doris | Published: August 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — A second 2-year-old boy has gone missing in 10 days from Yavapai County, Arizona, authorities said Tuesday as they announced a major search effort under way for the toddler, identified as Emmett Trapp. Emmett’s disappearance is believed to be unrelated to the case of Sylar Newton, another 2-year-old who [...]

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Abducted 4-year-old girl found in car wash

By doris | Published: July 7, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ST. LOUIS — A 4-year-old girl taken from her Louisiana, Mo., front yard has been found alive 80 miles away near St. Louis, NBC News reported late Tuesday. Alisa Maier was dropped off at a car wash, NBC said. She was being treated at a hospital but there was no word [...]

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Missing Oregon boy’s case classified as criminal

By doris | Published: June 14, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com PORTLAND, Ore. – The search for a missing Portland boy was reclassified as a criminal investigation Sunday, 10 days after he disappeared, but authorities wouldn’t say why. “As of today, the search and rescue crews will have completed the mission we set out for them,” Multnomah County Sheriff’s Capt. Monte Reiser [...]

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Round-the-world teen sailor alive, well

By doris | Published: June 11, 2010

Full Story at nbcsports.msnbc.com A 16-year-old Californian girl attempting to sail solo around the world is safe and well, her parents said, after a massive search and rescue operation was launched in the Indian Ocean when she triggered distress signals. Abby Sunderland was last heard from about 6 a.m. Pacific time Thursday, when she broke [...]

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Search for Missing Oil Rig Workers Called Off

By doris | Published: April 24, 2010

Full Story at CBS News.com The Coast Guard is calling off its search for 11 workers missing since an explosion on an oil rig off the Louisiana coast. Rear Adm. Mary Landry calls it a very difficult decision. The Coast Guard said Friday crews had spent three days searching a large area surrounding the rig, [...]

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At least 11 missing after blast on oil rig in Gulf

By doris | Published: April 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The U.S. Coast Guard launched a major search effort Wednesday for 11 people missing after a “catastrophic” explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico engulfed the drilling platform in flames. Another 17 people were injured — three critically — in the blast aboard the Deepwater Horizon, [...]

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God ‘led me directly’ to girl lost in swamp, Florida rescuer says

By doris | Published: April 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — The man who rescued an 11-year-old girl lost in a dense Florida swamp said Wednesday that God led him directly to her and that finding her was no surprise. James King said he set out on his own to look for Nadia Bloom on Tuesday, trusting that [...]

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Air quality safe for crews to resume search for missing miners

By doris | Published: April 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Four rescue teams are getting ready to re-enter a West Virginia coal mine to search for four missing miners after determining the air quality is safe. In all, 32 rescuers will enter the Upper Big Branch South Mine early Thursday, Kevin Stricklin, an administrator for the federal Mine Safety [...]

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25 killed in West Virginia mine blast

By doris | Published: April 6, 2010

Full Story at 25 dead in W. Va. coal mine blast – Life- msnbc.com MONTCOAL, W.Va. – Rescue teams planned to search again for four workers missing in a coal mine where a massive explosion killed 25 in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades, though officials said Tuesday that the chances [...]

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More than 2 million affected by earthquake, Chile’s president says

By doris | Published: February 28, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Santiago, Chile (CNN) — As the sun set in Chile on Saturday, a picture of the immense structural damage wrought by an early morning earthquake had come clearly into focus, with the nation’s president estimating that 2 million people had been affected in some way. More than 300 people were killed, [...]

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Police, relative: California family’s disappearance doesn’t add up

By doris | Published: February 23, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A close relative of a missing Southern California family fears they may have been kidnapped. “My gut feeling is telling me that they are being held against their will in some way,” said Michael McStay, brother of Joseph McStay. “That’s my personal opinion. That’s what I think.” Joseph McStay, [...]

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Haiti earthquake: Tuesday news updates

By doris | Published: January 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com 10:37 p.m. — Two children were pulled alive Tuesday night from the rubble of a two-story building in Port-au-Prince. The 8-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl, rescued by a team from the New York City fire and police departments, were taken to an Israeli tent hospital. 10:31 p.m. — Rescue teams on [...]

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Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins

By doris | Published: January 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Prayers of thanksgiving and cries for help rose from Haiti’s huddled homeless Sunday, the sixth day of an epic humanitarian crisis that was straining the world’s ability to respond and igniting flare-ups of violence amid the rubble of Port-au-Prince. Haitian police struggled to scatter hundreds of stone-throwing looters [...]

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Search crews dig through quake rubble as relief mission takes shape

By doris | Published: January 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Undeterred by darkness, a rescue crew patiently chipped away at concrete and debris early Sunday morning to try and reach a woman who sent a text message that she was buried beneath the ruins of a collapsed bank. The team with the Los Angeles County Search and [...]

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First U.S. military aid reaches quake-stricken Haiti

By doris | Published: January 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — With the first of its flights touching down in earthquake-devastated Haiti late Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. began deploying military planes, ships and ground troops to the Caribbean nation. One of two planes carrying a 30-person assessment team arrived at Port-au-Prince airport about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The team will [...]

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Haitians in U.S. wait for news and worry

By doris | Published: January 14, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — With phone lines down and communication cut, Haitians living in America are “sick with worry” and scrambling for information about loved ones who experienced Tuesday’s 7.0 earthquake on the island nation. “At this point it looks like it’s worse than we all imagined and we still don’t know specifics [...]

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Police seek information on missing 8-month-old

By doris | Published: January 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — An Arizona couple who wanted to adopt a woman’s baby know more than they’re saying about the 8-month-old boy’s disappearance, police say. Gabriel Johnson hasn’t been seen since December 26, police said, and his mother was arrested last week in Miami Beach, Florida, after not reporting for a December [...]

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Missing Arizona baby’s mom’s car found in Texas

By doris | Published: January 6, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN ANTONIO – The car belonging to an Arizona mother who allegedly told her ex-boyfriend she’d killed their 8-month-old son was found Tuesday in Texas, but the baby remained missing, an FBI spokesman said. Gabriel Johnson was last seen in San Antonio with his 23-year-old mother, Elizabeth Johnson of Tempe, Ariz. [...]

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