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A global campaigning organization says that almost 3,000 people have gone missing in Syria since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad more than four months ago. A survey by the online activist group Avaaz.org estimates that one person is disappearing in Syria every hour. The group released the survey results in a statement on Thursday.

A young Brooklyn boy who vanished while walking home from a day camp in one of the safest parts of the city was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had turned to for help after getting lost, police said Wednesday.

Elizabeth Smart to work as ABC commentator focusing on missing persons, child abduction cases.

Jaycee Dugard, who gave birth to two girls fathered by the captor who kidnapped her as a child, said she is amazed at her newfound freedom, in excerpts released on Thursday from her first interview.

The friend who was with an Indiana University co-ed before she vanished has no memory of their last moments together, his lawyer said.

Hayward police have classified the case of a nursing student who disappeared last month during a break from rounds at a hospital in Hayward as a homicide.

Hayward police have questioned a friend of a nursing student who disappeared last Friday during a break from rounds at a hospital, as they try to determine what happened to Michelle Le.

Hayward police are checking cellphone records and security camera footage as they search for a nursing student who disappeared Friday during a break from rounds at a hospital.

New Hampshire police planned to search two vehicles as part of their investigation into a missing Maine woman whose young daughter was found in one of them.

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After months of searches and appeals to the public, authorities confirmed Thursday that a body found in a northeast Maryland river was a North Carolina teen who went missing while visiting relatives in Baltimore over the Christmas holidays.