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Coroner ties hospital stairway death to alcoholism - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A woman found dead in a locked stairwell 17 days after she went missing from her room at San Francisco General Hospital died accidentally, probably due to a chemical imbalance related to chronic alcohol abuse, the city medical examiner's office said Friday.

Read Article December 14 2013

Sheriff: Bodies found in desert are missing couple - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, california SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - Human remains found in the Southern California desert are believed to be a missing San Diego-area couple and their two young sons, and their deaths appear to be homicides, authorities said Friday.

Read Article November 15 2013

3 bodies found in Miss. believed to be family - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Spor mississippi By JACK ELLIOTT JR. Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The bodies of a man, woman and young boy believed to be members of a family that went missing were found Tuesday in Mississippi, not far from where investigators found their burned car a few days earlier, authorities said.

Read Article November 10 2013

A look at some journalists missing in Syria - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports missouri BEIRUT (AP) - At least 30 journalists currently are reported missing while covering Syria's civil war. The widespread abduction of journalists is unprecedented. Many have gone unreported in hope that keeping the kidnappings out of public view may help to negotiate the captives' release.

Read Article November 09 2013

Umpires line up in missing-man formation for Bell - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, missouri DETROIT (AP) - The umpiring crew for Game 3 of the AL championship series Tuesday lined up in missing-man formation during a moment of silence for umpire Wally Bell, who died of an apparent heart attack.

Read Article October 23 2013

Family still hopeful about NH man missing in Syria - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, illinois CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The family of a New Hampshire journalist missing in Syria for nearly a year plans say recent events in that country have given them renewed hope.

Read Article October 19 2013

Libya PM lashes out at militias after abduction - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sp TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Libya's prime minister, who was abducted briefly by gunmen this week, has lashed out at militias fueling turmoil, warning that some want to turn the North African nation into "another Afghanistan or Somalia."

Read Article October 12 2013

Libya's news agency: Abducted PM has been freed - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Libya's state news agency says Prime Minister Ali Zidan, abducted by gunmen at dawn, has now been freed. Government Spokesman Mohammed Kaabar told the agency, LANA, that Zidan has been "set free" and was on his way to his office on Thursday.

Read Article October 12 2013

NM authorities say 1 boy from youth camp back home - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, HILLSBORO, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico's child services department said Saturday that at least one of the nine teenagers reported missing from a rural ranch for troubled youth is back with his parents.

Read Article October 12 2013

State police search for teens from youth ranch - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Spo illinois ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Nine teenagers were missing Friday from a southern New Mexico ranch for troubled youths after authorities at the ranch were accused of beating and shackling students.

Read Article October 11 2013

Body found at SF hospital may be missing patient - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, S missouri SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A woman's body has been discovered in a rarely used stairwell at a hospital where a female patient went missing more than two weeks ago, officials said.

Read Article October 10 2013

Missing in Rio on the rise; Brazil police accused - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Anderson de Souza turned back after bounding down a dark maze of passageways in Rio de Janeiro's sprawling Rocinha slum, incandescent light illuminating his face.

Read Article October 07 2013

Exit polls: A slip for Austria governing coalition - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, illinois VIENNA (AP) - Exit polls shows Austria's two government coalition parties leading in parliamentary elections but possibly just missing an absolute majority after slight losses.

Read Article September 29 2013

Area Roundup: Lady Suns, Lady Pirates continue winning ways - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Misso missouri The Southeastern and Hannibal volleyball teams aren't missing a beat.

Read Article September 28 2013

58 more missing after massive Mexico storm - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports illinois ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - Mexico's government said that 58 people were missing after a massive landslide smashed through a tiny coffee-growing village deep in the country's southern mountains, where fresh waves of rain threatened to unleash more danger for rescue workers trying to evacuate the last residents from the isolated hamlet.

Read Article September 19 2013

Anxious waiting for word of missing in CO floods - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, S illinois LYONS, Colo. (AP) - Gerald Guntle dials his sister's home multiple times a day, desperate to find out if she survived the widespread flooding that shattered the Rocky Mountain foothill town of Lyons. But the phone just rings and rings.

Read Article September 17 2013

SKorean abducted by NKorea escapes after 41 years - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean man abducted by North Korea has escaped and returned home after 41 years. Choi Sung-yung of the Abductees' Family Union said Friday that 68-year-old Jeon Wook-pyo escaped last month and returned to South Korea in early September.

Read Article September 16 2013

2 women, missing for a decade, found alive in Ohio - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Cleveland, CLEVELAND (AP) - Two women who went missing as teenagers about a decade ago were found alive Monday in a residential area just south of downtown, within a few miles of where they disappeared.

Read Article May 06 2013

Mass. teen missing for 2 days found alive in Maine - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, illinois CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (AP) - A 17-year-old skier who wandered away from the Sugarloaf ski resort survived two nights in the wild by building a snow cave for shelter, drinking water from a stream and walking toward the sound of snowmobiles during the day, officials said Tuesday.

Read Article March 05 2013

Tampa area man swallowed by sinkhole - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports illinois SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) - A man was missing early Friday after a large sinkhole opened under the bedroom of a house near Tampa and his brother says the man screamed for help before he disappeared.

Read Article March 03 2013

Colo. teen heard on 911 call saying he killed girl - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, missouri GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado teenager told a 911 dispatcher last fall that he kidnapped and killed a missing suburban Denver school girl and hid her remains in a crawl space at his mother's home, according to a recording played by a prosecutor in court Friday.

Read Article March 02 2013

Husband of NYC woman found dead: Haven't told kids - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri N missouri (AP Photo). Police forensics search for missing New York City woman Sarai Sierra near the remnants of some ancient city walls in low-income district of Sarayburnu in Istanbul, Turkey, late Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013.

Read Article February 16 2013

Report: Man released in Turkey missing woman case - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, illinois ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A man questioned over the disappearance of a New York City woman in Istanbul has been released from police custody but may be called again to help authorities with their inquiries, a Turkish news report said Friday.

Read Article February 08 2013

Report: Police to question man over missing woman - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's state-run news agency says police have identified a man who exchanged online messages with a missing New York City and will question him over her disappearance.

Read Article February 01 2013

Split Fla. missing girl jury resumes deliberations - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, missouri MIAMI (AP) - A jury in Miami has resumed deliberations in the case of a woman accused of killing 4-year-old foster child Rilya Wilson more than 12 years ago.

Read Article January 31 2013

Body of missing Calif. woman found at Lake Tahoe - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, S california RENO, Nev. (AP) - The search for a missing 19-year-old California woman who disappeared on New Year's Eve at Lake Tahoe ended Friday when her body was found behind a snow bank about a mile from the site of a music festival she attended that night, authorities said.

Read Article January 04 2013

Laos gov't denies kidnapping missing activist - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, BANGKOK (AP) - The government of Laos on Thursday disavowed responsibility for the disappearance of a respected social activist and suggested he had been kidnapped over a personal dispute. The statement did little to allay fears he is being held by government security forces.

Read Article December 25 2012

FBI: Alaska barista assaulted, dismembered - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports Quincy, ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A man who died in an apparent suicide this week in an Alaska jail after confessing to a string of killings across the country had sexually assaulted and strangled an Anchorage barista the day after he abducted her, then left her body in a shed while he went on a two-week cruise, the FBI said Tuesday.

Read Article December 22 2012

Disappearance of Lao activist triggers concern - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Spo missouri BANGKOK (AP) - A respected social activist has gone missing in Laos, and a colleague involved in the search for him said Tuesday that he saw evidence that police had taken him into custody.

Read Article December 22 2012

Police: 4 Koreans, 1 Nigerian kidnapped in Nigeria - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Quincy, LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Police say kidnappers are holding hostage four South Koreans and a Nigerian working for a Korean company in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta.

Read Article December 21 2012

SEAL Team Six member killed in Afghanistan rescue - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Quincy, WASHINGTON (AP) - A Pentagon official says a Navy SEAL was killed during the rescue mission in Afghanistan that freed an American doctor abducted by the Taliban.

Read Article December 21 2012

American, Canadian killed in Peru rafting accident - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, illinois LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peruvian police say they have found the body of an American woman who was missing after a raft carrying foreign tourists capsized in a turbulent river. A Canadian man also died and his body was found earlier.

Read Article December 20 2012

Missing Fla. foster child's custodian feared worst - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri N MIAMI (AP) - The legal custodian of missing foster child Rilya Wilson testified Monday that she suspected the worst when the girl abruptly disappeared in late 2000 but did not contact police or child welfare officials because she was afraid of taking the blame.

Read Article December 18 2012

Police seek to 'find a killer' of 2 Iowa cousins - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri missouri (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall). Micayla Weber, of Waterloo, Iowa, holds a candle during a vigil for missing cousins Lyric Cook, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, who vanished while riding bikes in Evansdale in July, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in Evansdale, Iowa.

Read Article December 16 2012

Casey Anthony detectives overlooked Google search - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The Florida sheriff's office that investigated the disappearance of Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter overlooked evidence that someone in their home did a Google search for "fool-proof" suffocation methods on the day the girl was last seen alive.

Read Article December 16 2012

Alaska reclaims missing moon rocks since 1973 - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Spor illinois ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A display of moon rocks that disappeared from an Alaska museum after an arson fire nearly four decades ago has been returned to the state following the settlement of a lawsuit by a man who claimed he rescued the rocks from the rubble.

Read Article December 13 2012

Plane of singer Jenni Rivera missing in Mexico - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Spo missouri MEXICO (AP) - Authorities in northern Mexico are confirming that a small plane carrying Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera has gone missing after taking off from the city of Monterrey.

Read Article December 10 2012

Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, SportsNo sign of missing Caribbean cruise ship passe florida SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The Coast Guard has searched for a second day for a Washington state man missing from his Caribbean cruise but found no sign of him.

Read Article December 01 2012

Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports2 missing, 4 badly burned in Gulf platform fir missouri NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Coast Guard was searching late Friday for two workers missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that transformed the oil industry and life along the coast.

Read Article November 24 2012

Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, SportsDolphins found shot, slashed, stabbed with too mississippi GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Authorities are investigating several attacks on dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico after some were found with gunshot wounds, cuts and missing jaws.

Read Article November 18 2012