Missing Persons

High on a hill, in woods overlooking a multi-family cemetery, a hunter set about readying a tree stand for the fall season when he spied a human skull. Before long, other body parts were discovered, scattered across the forest, all belonging to Rachel...

Workers who have entered Saudi Arabia illegally and have no documentation proving the identity of their current employers will not be allowed to apply for work permits under the labor concessions announced earlier this month by the government. Such...

A mother and her infant son are now safe, thanks in part to the determination of deputies with the Howard County Sheriff's Department. The officers worked from the time Kristy Redenbaugh was reported missing in September 2012 until the man police allege...

Dozens of children are reported missing every month in the state, but almost all are found or return on their own within a couple of days or even hours, Maine Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Friday. Only about once a decade does a...

The Penobscot County Sheriff's Office and its law enforcement partners want to hear from anyone who saw a black Ford Ranger or similar-looking pickup truck in the Glenburn area around the time 15-year-old Nichole Cable went missing, Sheriff Glenn Ross...

Here we go again — at the first sign of recovery from the worst recession since the Great Depression, government officials are gearing up to line their pockets with taxpayer money. The Burbank City Council took the lead last week by granting 100...

Sparked by Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's landmark May 1861 offer of asylum to runaway slaves, more than 20,000 fugitive blacks converged on the Union outpost of Fort Monroe during the Civil War, with most of them ending up in two large sprawling camps...

A relative of a boy who disappeared in 1972 from an orphanage outing in Burlington County has come forward to help investigators solve the cold case. It is the latest development in a 41-year-old mystery that has inspired a network of law enforcement...

The Penobscot County Sheriff's Office and several partner agencies are following up on at least 60 leads that have come in over the last 24 hours in the effort to find a missing 15-year-old Glenburn girl. Nichole Cable was last seen Sunday evening on...

When the Newport Harbor Exchange Club started its Field of Honor event four years ago, a ruckus interrupted the inaugural weekend. When a passing cyclist saw the hillside at Castaways Park covered in American flags, he stopped and started yelling,...

In a letter read to the congregation at Discovery Church, Pastor David Loveless admitted adultery, deceit, sinfulness, selfishness, broken trust and a violation of "everything I knew to be true and right." "I am broken beyond description," he wrote....

NEW YORK -- A man who confessed to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance 34 years ago remains one of the nation's most baffling missing-persons cases, will stand trial for the boy's murder, a judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Maxwell Wiley's...