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The body of a 67-year-old blind man was found lying at the bottom of an elevator shaft in his building in the Bronx on Thursday after his wife reported him missing.

Authorities in Maryland say a prison work crew kept a toddler safe after the child was found wandering alone on a rural highway.

At least one person is dead and four missing after a fishing boat sank off the New Jersey coast, the Coast Guard said.

A doctor says it's a miracle that a man survived being in the cold Gulf water for nearly two days after the boat carrying him, two NFL players and another man capsized off the Florida coast.

One person is clinging to the wreckage, but it's not either of the two NFL players who were aboard the lost fishing boat. Rescuers have found one of the four missing boaters off Florida's Gulf Coast and he is "alive and talking," according to the St. Petersburg Times.

Two NFL players are among a group of boaters reported missing off Florida's Gulf Coast, an agent for one of the players said Sunday.

The family of a missing 14-year old California girl launched an all-out search Sunday morning that extended into the local mountains, television news station San Diego 6 reports.

Reports in Washington and California say that an arrest may be close in the slaying of the former federal intern whose disappearance ended Gary Condit's congressional career.

The father of a missing 5-year-old Florida girl said he and his girlfriend have taken and passed polygraph tests.