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New York officials release new renderings of possible Gilgo Beach victim
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — Law enforcement officials on Monday released new, more detailed renderings of one of the victims whose remains were found along a coastal highway in New York’s Long Island more than a decade ago in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings. ...
DA who oversaw abandoned prosecution of Colorado man in wife's death should be disbarred, panel says
DENVER (AP) — Colorado state regulators have ruled that a district attorney who brought criminal charges that were ultimately dismissed against a man accused of killing his missing wife should no longer be allowed to work as a lawyer, finding that her management of the high-profile case resulted...
Missing California woman found alive after 12 days in the wilderness
NEVADA CITY, Calif. (AP) — A California woman was found atop a river canyon this week near the Yuba River in Northern California 12 days after disappearing from a mining camp site. The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office said Friday the 24-year-old Sacramento woman was severely...
Husband of missing Virginia woman to head to trial in early 2025
MANASSAS, Virginia (AP) — When Mamta Kafle Bhatt disappeared in late July, members of her local community in northern Virginia and her family in her native Nepal banded together to try to figure out what happened to her. They posted on social media, hosted community events and held...
A missing 13-year-old wound up in adult jail after lying about her name and age, a prosecutor says
ALIQUIPPA, Pa. (AP) — A 13-year-old Pittsburgh-area girl who was reported missing early last month spent time with adult inmates at a Pennsylvania jail after she lied to authorities about her age and identity following a shoplifting arrest, a prosecutor said. Someone at the Beaver...
Search goes on for missing Virginia woman, husband charged with concealing a body
MANASSAS PARK, Va. (AP) — More than a month has passed since a Virginia woman disappeared, and authorities say she likely died in a bloody struggle at her Manassas Park home. Police are still looking for the body of Mamta Bhatt, 28, a mother and pediatric nurse who was last seen...
One day, their children didn't make it back home. Faith helps these Mexican mothers' search for them
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Each time the kidnapper hung up the phone, Veronica Rosas and her relatives did the only thing they could think of: kneel, grab each other’s hands and pray. “I told God: Please help me,” said Rosas, who has spent the past nine years searching for her son,...
A seventh body is recovered from sunken superyacht off Sicily, believed to be Mike Lynch's daughter
ROME (AP) — Italian rescuers on Friday brought ashore the last of seven bodies from a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily, the Coast Guard said. It is believed to be that of the daughter of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who also perished when the boat sank earlier this week. ...
11th victim found after a boat carrying migrants capsized on a river on the Serbia-Bosnia border
BRATUNAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A man's body was pulled out of the Drina River on the border between Serbia and Bosnia on Friday, bringing to 11 the number of people who drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized a day earlier, Serbian police said. The body of an...
Mother of Chicago woman missing in the Bahamas says she's `deeply concerned' about her disappearance
CHICAGO (AP) — The mother of a Chicago woman who vanished last week in the Bahamas while attending a yoga retreat says she's “deeply concerned” about her daughter's disappearance in the Caribbean nation. Taylor Casey, 41, was last seen on June 19 at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga...
