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NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 to a bus stop for the ride to school.

Media Matters: Did Fox News edit video of President Obama’s commencement speech at West Point to remove audience applause? Filmmaker Michael Moore thinks so...

ALL FREEPERS PLEASE KEEP A LOOKOUT FOR MY DAUGHTER WHO HAS BEEN TAKEN BY WIFE. WIFE FALSELY ACCUSED ME OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 3 WEEKS AGO, RESTRAINING ORDER LIFTED BY JUDGE 5PM, MAY 12. WIFE TAKES DAUGHTER AND FLEES SOUTH FLORIDA, DRIVING 2009 BLACK BMW 328I SPORT WAGON. POSSIBLY HEADED FOR SAN ANTONIO, TX. BOLO!! BOLO!! LILLIAN EMMA HASKELL AGE 2 DOB--6/22/2008 BROWN HAIR, BROWN EYES VERY SMALL FOR AGE 31 INCHES TALL 18 POUNDS WEIGHT HAS MEDICAL NEEDS TRAVELLING WITH MARY ANN HASKELL BROWN HAIR, BROWN EYES COB--7/7/1953---AGE 56 5'8--145 POUNDS

Scientists have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton to detect a vast reservoir of gas lying along a wall-shaped structure of galaxies about 400 million light years from Earth. In this artist's impression, a close-up view of the so-called Sculptor Wall is depicted. Spiral and elliptical galaxies are shown in the wall along with the newly detected intergalactic gas, part of the so-called Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM), shown in blue. This discovery is the strongest evidence yet that the "missing matter" in the nearby Universe is located in an enormous web of hot, diffuse gas. The X-ray...

LAYTON, Utah (AP) - The body of a boy who matches the description of a missing 4-year-old child has been found in a Utah canyon and his mother and stepfather are in custody, police said Tuesday. Layton police said Ethan Stacy's stepfather, Nathan Sloop, 31, will be charged with aggravated homicide. His mother, Stephanie Sloop, 27, will be charged with felony child abuse. Both will face obstruction of justice and desecration of corpse charges. The search for Ethan started Tuesday after police said the boy's mother had reported him missing, saying she has last seen him in bed at their...

SAINT-JUDE, Quebec – Four people, including two children, are missing after the land beneath their home gave way and swallowed their house northeast of Montreal, officials said Tuesday. Rescue authorities said the house partially collapsed Monday night in Saint-Jude, a town of 1,000 near the Yamaska River, when a sinkhole formed. "It's a pretty gigantic crater," said Francois Gregoire, a Quebec fire department spokesman. "It's hard imagining something like this. It's pretty impressive." Gregoire said the house was quite far from the river before the land gave way but that part of it ended up in the water.

Missing: Eugene Brown III Detroit, MI CIRCUMSTANCES Eugene was last seen at the "Motor City Casino" in Detroit, MI at around 7pm on November 14, 2008. He was last heard from at around 1 a.m. on Saturday November 15, 2008. He was driving his 1999 Black Ford E150 Van with the License Plate Number BXU2268, which was found at Cameron and Melbourne in Detroit, MI. It had been completely burned.

Ed has been. I don't all the details but Loveness thanks all of you for your prayers. They still have a difficult time ahead with him but they hopefully get through it with God's help and more prayers.

NEW ORLEANS – An oil platform that burned for more than day after a massive explosion sank into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Crews searched by air and water for 11 workers still missing from the Deepwater Horizon, though one relative said family members have been told it's unlikely anyone survived Tuesday night's blast. Supply vessels had been shooting water into the rig try to control the flames enough to keep it afloat, but couldn't, Coast Guard Petty Officer Katherine McNamara said. Rescue crews have covered the 1,940-square-mile search area by air 12 times...

At approximately 10 p.m. (CST) Tuesday night, an explosion rocked Transocean's Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible drilling rig in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the search continues for 11 workers still missing following what could be one of the nation's deadliest offshore drilling incidents of the past half-century. Seventeen people were injured in the blast and taken to hospitals earlier Wednesday. Yesterday, four workers were treated at West Jefferson Hospital, while another worker was treated at the University of South Alabama Medical Center's burn unit. Five others were undergoing evaluation at the facility in Mobile, Alabama....

BAGHDAD – Operation Liberator II, the latest undertaking in the U.S. military's ongoing effort to find and recover the 16 American and Coalition service members and civilians missing here, is underway."We never have, and we never will stop looking," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. K.C. Chhipwadia, the senior intelligence officer with United States Forces -- Iraq's Personnel Recovery Division. This current operation began April 15, and continues the work started last summer during Operation Liberator, a two-month-long effort that improved the collection of actionable intelligence relating to missing personnel, said Lt. Col. Kevin Dennehy, director of the USF-I PRD. That operation...

Prayer is requested for Loveness and all of the Murinda Family. There still has been no word about the where abouts of their son, Ed. He was last seen driving a dark blue Dodge Caravan license 5 W V V 176. She wrote “ We still have not found Ed or the minivan. Today is the the 11th day. We have felt your prayers and have been sustained by them through this hard time. Please send us encouragement and practical suggestions to lcmurinda@yahoo.com as we are struggling with what to do and what to expect since some of you have...

The blogosphere abhors a vacuum. So when the mainstream media (MSM) leave holes in a given narrative -- in this case, the biography of the president -- bloggers individually, incrementally, and indefatigably strive to fill in the blanks -- sometimes successfully, sometimes less so. In his comprehensive, 600-plus-page biography of Barack Obama titled The Bridge, New Yorker editor David Remnick lays down the baseline of what the mainstream media know about the president -- or at least what they want us to know.

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. — James King said it was an act of God that led him to find Nadia Bloom in a thick swamp early today. “God directed me to her,” King said hours after finding the 11-year-girl alive. A day earlier, the 44-year-old University of Central Florida alum was part of a volunteer search crew that had been unable to find Nadia. But at first light today, King, a military contractor, entered the woods armed with two cell phones, his shoes taped to his feet and some food and water to give Nadia if she was found. He prayed,...

Nadia Bloom, 11, had spent four days in the alligator-infested area. An 11-year-old girl was being treated Tuesday for insect bites and dehydration in a Florida hospital after spending four days in alligator-infested woods and swampland. Rescuers and other law enforcement officials carried Nadia Bloom out of the woods in a sling more than three hours after rescuer James King called 911 to report he had found her. King, 44, of Orlando, Fla., was a volunteer searcher who is a member of Metro Church, where the child's family worships. "I didn't all of a sudden see her," King said. "I...

Posted: 9:24 am EDT April 13, 2010 Updated: 9:49 am EDT April 13, 2010 SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- Missing 11-year-old Nadia Bloom was found alive Tuesday morning in woods by a church member volunteering with the search.

Nadia Bloom, missing since Friday, may have been inspired by a book about an adventurous girl who decides to go camping in her backyard. Searchers found a missing 11-year-old girl alive Tuesday after she disappeared from her home near Orlando on Friday.

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. -- Once daylight broke, search teams began a third full day of searching for a missing 11-year old autistic girl in Winter Springs. Police told Eyewitness News they are not giving up hope that they will find Nadia Bloom okay. The search for her has been going on since Friday afternoon when Nadia disappeared from the Barrington Estates neighborhood.

I was sent the following email: Joe, I am asking for prayers for our son, Ed. He took off in our minivan and drove off in the early hours of this morning. He was diagnosed is under treatment and is very upset with the diagnosis and treatments. The police have him as critical missing meaning that they won't treat it as a criminal case (no guns drawn) when they catch up with him. If anyone has advice on what we can do, please let me know-we are desperate. Loveness He was driving a Dark blue Dodge Grand Caravan License number...

SEOUL, April 3 (Yonhap) -- A fishing boat has vanished and is feared to have sunk after searching for sailors missing from last week's naval disaster, maritime police said Saturday. Police said they lost contact with the 99-ton boat, carrying nine people aboard, after receiving a distress signal at around 8:30 p.m. Friday in the area off the western sea border with North Korea, where the patrol ship Cheonan ship sank on March 26.