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<p>A California girl who had been missing for almost seven years was found Wednesday by police in Phoenix, Arizona, authorities said.</p> <p>The girl had just turned a year old when she was abducted in September 2003.</p> <p>She had been in the care of foster parents in Norwalk, California, when she was snatched by three of her aunts, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County sheriff's Norwalk Station said.</p>

LOUISIANA, Mo. (AP) -- Police are searching for a man suspected of taking a 4-year-old Missouri girl from her front yard in a small, quiet Mississippi River town. Alisa Maier and her 5-year-old brother were playing in the yard of their Louisiana, Mo., home about 8 p.m. Monday night. The boy told police a man he didn't know pulled up in a four-door car and ordered his sister to get in....

LOUISIANA, Mo. -- Police scoured a creek Tuesday for clues into the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl who may have been abducted from the front yard of her eastern Missouri home. Police said Alisa Maier was playing with her 5-year-old brother outside their home in the town of Louisiana Monday night when a man pulled up in a black four-door passenger car and took her away, KSDK reported. The only witness to the alleged abduction was the girl's brother, who told police he saw his sister get into the car with a man he did not know, Louisiana Police Chief...

San Francisco police want an explanation for why an assistant principal at John O'Connell High School blocked an officer from interviewing a 15-year-old girl who had just been spooked by a stranger who followed and harassed her for blocks in his vehicle. Police say the Mission District school's refusal to allow them to talk to the girl promptly was especially alarming because the stalker appeared to match the description of a man who has been trying to lure young girls into his pickup truck."If some jerk is following your daughter to school, you want the cops to catch the person...

Brother, can you spare a dime to help Noah? Your assistance please. Please call your United States Senator or House Representative and ask that Noah Kirkman be returned home. quote =================================================== Noah Kirkman is a Canadian child who was taken into custody by the US government while on summer vacation. Initially picked up by local Oregon authorities for riding his bike without wearing a helmet, Noah was detained and placed in foster care in the United States of America. Noah is special needs and his entire family in Canada want him home. Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) have moved...

Two men drag teen waiting for school bus into car but she jumps out window A 13-year-old girl was able to get out of a terrifying situation this morning after two men attempted to abduct her in Southwest Miami-Dade. The teen was waiting for her school bus early this morning at Southwest 268 St. and Southwest 139 Ave. when a black car pulled up next to her. According to police, the car was occupied by two black males. The man in the passenger seat stepped out and pulled the girl by her hoodie, forcing her inside the car. When the...

MONROVIA, Calif., March 5 (UPI) -- Police said a 22-year-old woman who was a child when she was allegedly abducted by her mother has been found in Los Angeles County, Calif. Investigators said Thursday they located Jessica Click-Hill, who was reported missing by her father in 1995, and arrested Click-Hill's mother, Wendy D. Hill, after authorities were able to track the mother-daughter pair to Monrovia, Calif., the Contra Costa (Calif.) Times reported. FBI and police investigators were able to locate the two individuals in Monrovia thanks to a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "They are...

An Amber Alert has been issued at Fort Bragg for a missing 5-year-old girl, WRAL.com reported. Te'amani LeSha Gerald was reportedly kidnapped from her front yard at 8:15 a.m., WRAL.com reported. She is described as black, 3-feet tall and weighing 50 pounds. She was last seen dressed in a pink Dora the Explorer coat, blue jeans and a black shirt, the Web site reported. Officials believe she might have been taken by Alexis D. Gerald and Phyllis Gerald. Alexis Gerald was described as a black woman, 5 feet, 6 inches tall and 200 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes....

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, have asked President Obama to “do everything within the authority of your office” to free the American missionary team charged with abduction in Haiti. In a letter dated Feb. 5, the leaders said it is “the consuming passion” of Southern Baptists to share the good news with the world and to “love every person He has created.” This characteristic is especially apparent during times of disaster when Southern Baptists work alongside other humanitarian groups to meet the physical and spiritual needs of people. Though the leaders admit they do...

PHOENIX — A 5-year-old girl abducted by a man as she played outside her Phoenix home Friday was rescued hours later after police chased down the suspect's pickup and found her "alive and well" inside, officials said. Natalie Flores was located around 9 p.m. after a patrol officer spotted the truck of the man accused of kidnapping her, Sgt. Andy Hill said. "We have had our Christmas miracle," Hill said. "She is alive and well."

Morgan Harrington was seen hitchhiking for a ride on the Copeley Road Bridge on the night of her disappearance, according to a police brief released Nov. 13. “After the 9:30 (p.m.) timeframe, we can’t seem to establish any other sightings of her,” said Corinne Geller, spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police. It was also released in the brief that she was wearing a Swarovski Crystal necklace on that night. Harrington might have received a ride or approached someone to borrow a cell phone, Geller said. “She was wearing it that night,” Geller said. “She dropped her purse and her cell...

/begin my excerpts [Weekly Chosun] Sino-N. Korean 'Intel War' /snip In October, 2006, when N. Korea did their first nuclear test, there were spies who sneaked in from Chinese fishing boat off the shore of Hwa-dae(near the test site.) They wanted to install GPS system in Hwa-dae and tried to obtain samples from N. Korea's nuclear test, but N. Korean State Security got them. N. Korea made no announcement to the outside about this incident. They nabbed the entire team and executed them without trial. According to a N. Korean defector, he was told by a security agent, "We found...

KNOXVILLE - A jury this afternoon convicted Lemaricus Davidson of first-degree murder in the January 2007 torture slayings of a Knox County couple. Davidson, 26, faces a potential death sentence for the deaths of University of Tennessee student Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23. Jurors will consider his punishment in a separate proceeding that will begin Thursday. The jurors also could choose life without parole or life in prison, a mandatory 51-year sentence.

[most likely MILF, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or Abu Sayaff] From ABS-CBN: Philippine authorities and church officials on Sunday launched fresh appeals for the safety of an elderly Irish priest they fear may be in dire need of medical attention eight days after he was abducted by unknown gunmen. Thousands of flyers were being handed out in coastal communities on the troubled southern island of Mindanao seeking help to get medicines delivered to Father Michael Sinnott, 79. Flyers being distributed in Mindanao "We appeal to your kind heart that the medicines will be delivered to Father Sinnott who currently has...

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A woman charged in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping who was court-ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment will have a competency review hearing next month. A Utah district court calendar shows Wanda Eileen Barzee will appear before Judge Judith Atherton on Oct. 23. It will be the first time Barzee has appeared in court since doctors at the Utah State Hospital began to forcibly medicate her in May 2008 in an effort to make her competent. If Barzee remains incompetent for trial, the state could seek to have her civilly committed.

It begins so normally, on a June morning two years ago. The breakfast scramble, the packing of lunches, and driving their kids to school...At the wheel of the jeep is Eduardo Garcia Valseca, the son of a Mexican newspaper baron. Beside him is his wife, the former Jayne Rager, whom Eduardo met Bethesda, near where he lived at the time... ...now here they are settled into life on a ranch outside the picturesque Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende. In back are Nayah, 6, and bubbly Emiliano, 7; big brother Fernando, 12, is ahead on his four-wheeler. They pull...

A Pennsylvania woman who called 911 to report that she and her daughter had been abducted was charged with making a false report and identity theft after police found the pair at a Disney resort in Florida, authorities said Wednesday. Bonnie Sweeten, 38, told authorities Tuesday afternoon that she and 9-year-old Julia Rakoczy were kidnapped after two men in a Cadillac rear-ended her sport-utility vehicle in Upper Southampton, north of Philadelphia. They were being held in the trunk of the Cadillac, she claimed. Sweeten was arrested late Wednesday at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort in Orlando, Florida, said Michelle Henry, district...

... Williams said he attempted to use the man’s cell phone signal to locate him, but the man was behind on his phone bill and the Verizon operator refused to connect the signal unless the sheriff’s department agreed to pay the overdue bill. After some disagreement, Williams agreed to pay $20 on the phone bill in order to find the man. But deputies discovered the man just as Williams was preparing to make arrangements for the payment. ... “I was more concerned for the person’s life,” Williams said. “It would have been nice if Verizon would have turned on his...

Etan Patz, the first missing child pictured on a milk carton, has been gone for 30 long years but has not been forgotten. Six year old Etan Patz went missing on May 25, 1979. It was the Friday before Memorial Day. He disappeared from his Soho, New York neighborhood while on his way to school. He insisted on being able to walk to the bus stop by himself just like all the other kids. Etan's parents were not keen on the idea. But, after arguing the point with Etan, his parents finally relented, and let him walk alone to the...