Searchers

JOPLIN, Mo. - Hundreds of searchers in Joplin are making a fifth sweep of the city, searching for anybody trapped alive.  Dog teams are assisting resucers searching Monday.  Joplin Fire Chief Mitch Randles says searchers will do a sixth and final sweep after the fifth sweep is complete. Rescue teams will not quit there.  Randles says the search effort for survivors will continue as the city begins to remove debris from the May 22 tornado.      

PONCA, Ark. -- The search for a 17-year-old kayaker ended successfully with no injuries to missing parties after two days of searching in the upper Buffalo River Wilderness.  Search and rescue professionals included employees of the National Park Service, Newton County Sheriff’s Department, U.S. Forest Service, Arkansas State Police, and numerous volunteers, including the Arkansas Canoe Association and Boy Scouts of America. The incident initially involved two individuals: Olen Marshall, 67, and his grandson, who put on the upper Buffalo at Dixon Ridge on Sunday afternoon at about 4.  Their intention was to float the 15.5-mile section of the Buffalo referred to as the Hailstone section using inflatable kayaks.  This section begins in the Ozark National Forest and flows into Buffalo National River at the south end of Boxley Valley.   The Hailstone is a challenging section of seasonal whitewater that attracts kayak enthusiasts.  It is typical to have kayakers respond to sudden weather events that make this section available to them.

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. -- The Pulaski County Sheriff's Department said late Sunday that searchers found three things belonging to Deborah Cirrincione -- a jacket, her medical identification bracelet, and a spare tire cover from her Jeep.  The items were near Riddle Bridge on the Gasconade River between Waynesville and Dixon. No one has reported seeing the 54-year-old woman from Dixon since April 28 when she was on her way home from Waynesville after getting groceries at a Wal-Mart store.  Heavy rains had closed some roads that she usually drove to get home.

HARDY, Ark. -- Search crews recovered the body of a missing 4-year-old boy about 10 a.m. Wednesday after a group of six to eight canoers found it in the river.  It was not the outcome for which people hoped.  Caleb disappeared on Saturday morning during a cleanup day at Kia Kima Boy Scout Camp on the South Fork of the Spring River.  The body was in about two feet of water, around a quarter of a mile from where dive teams were last searching,...

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. -- State troopers recovered the body of a 54-year-old woman from Dixon who disappeared on April 28.  Divers found Deborah Cirrincione's body and her Jeep on Wednesday afternoon.  It was submerged in the Gasconade River near Riddle Bridge between Waynesville and Dixon. Wednesday morning, troopers were sweeping the Gasconade River with electronic instruments when they registered a strong image that appeared to be a vehicle on its side in a deep pocket of water.

HARDY, Ark. -- Police and volunteers again searched in and along the South Fork of the Spring River on Monday for a 4-year-old boy who disappeared on Saturday morning.  Fulton County Sheriff Buck Foley says more than 150 people searched for Caleb Linn, who disappeared at the Kia Kima Boy Scout Camp near Hardy. No one has reported seeing Caleb since he left a group involved in a camp cleanup to try to catch up to several boys who had left for their campsite about half a mile away.  The group is not affiliated with the Boy Scouts.  Caleb is from Springdale, which is 150 miles west of Hardy.

BERRYVILLE, Mo. -- A body found in rural southern Carroll County is at the State Crime Lab in Little Rock for autopsy.  Sheriff Bob Grudek says searchers found the body of Albert Rich, 58, on Wednesday, the day after his family last saw him.   The body was in a mountainous, heavily wooded area about 200 yards from Rich's home in southern Carroll County, between the communities of Metalton and Rudd.  The sheriff says the body shows no sign...

ICONIUM, Mo. -- Missouri State Highway Patrol searchers found the bodies of two missing duck hunters in Truman Lake on Tuesday morning.  The bodies of Sean Sheldon, 43, and Jason Evans, 34, both of whom lived near Roscoe, were near their submerged boat near Bear Creek on Horsehoe Bend, about 10 miles east of Osceola.  Sheldon was the son of St. Clair County Coroner Randy Sheldon. Relatives reported the two men failed to return from their hunting trip on Monday night.  They'd gone out about 2:30 p.m.  The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department asked the Highway Patrol to help with the search about 9 p.m. Sgt. Jason Pace, a spokesman for the patrol's Troop D, said searchers used boats, thermal imaging equipment and a plane during the night.  A helicopter crew spotted the submerged boat about 8:30 a.m. and then searchers on the water found their bodies floating nearby.

STOUTLAND, Mo. -- After almost 12 hours, searchers found 4-year-old Bryce McCraken on Sunday night.  The Camden County sheriff says the boy will be checked out but appears to be okay. Bryce disappeared on Sunday afternoon while playing hide-and-seek with some other kids.  More than 250 volunteers and first responders united to walk the woods near the family's home outside Stoutland to search for the boy.  

HARDY, Ark., -- In the waterways and woods, volunteers, law enforcers and family members of Caleb Linn fanned out on Tuesday to continue looking for the little boy. Cadaver-sniffing dogs alerted searchers to the first trace of Caleb since he went missing--his two shirts; they were found near the same spot along the South Fork of the Spring River, not far from the bridge where the four-year-old was last seen. "With the speed of the water that we looked at on Saturday, he could possibly be within a 2 to 21/2 mile radius.

ADVANCE, Ark. -- Searchers found an 18-year-old man who was missing in the Ozark National Forest in southern Baxter County.  A crew from the U.S. Forestry Service found Jay Greer Jr. of Little Rock about 7 p.m. Friday.  He was in a heavily wooded and rugged area about 2.5 miles from where his abandoned vehicle was found on Friday morning on Brush Creek Road near the rural community of Advance.  It took eight hours to get him out of the woods....

PRESTON, Mo. -- Searchers in Hickory County found a 4-year-old girl about 3:40 p.m.   She disappeared near her home around 1 p.m. Thursday.  The girl followed four dogs away from her home.  She is safe and unharmed. The girl, whose name wasn't released, was last seen near her home along County Road 381 between Preston and Cross Timbers.  That road runs parallel to U.S. 65 about a half mile west of the highway.  The area is rugged and a handful of creeks cross it.  

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- City Fire Department bomb technicians, in conjunction with Springfield School Police Services, are investigating the bomb threat that occurred at Kickapoo High School on Thursday afternoon.  School staff called fire officials after htey discovered a bomb threat written inside a stall of a women's bathroom.  The threat indicated the school would be blown up on Friday. Bomb technicians advised school police, Kickapoo staff and others familiar with the building to perform a search.

ST. JOE, Ark. -- Two volunteers on a 4-wheel all-terrain vehicle found a woman on Thursday morning who got separated from her brother in the woods last Saturday.   Linda Arteaga, who is 53, survived by staying near a creek and eating wild hazel nuts, berries and watercress. Relatives told law enforcement officials that Arteaga went on a hiking trip last weekend with her brother, who planned to teach her survival skills, but they got separated.  Her brother came out of the woods on Monday but thought he saw Linda on the front porch of her home, and didn't report her missing for two days.  Relatives notified law enforcement officials on Wednesday, who began searching the area.

BERRYVILLE, Mo. -- A body found in rural southern Carroll County is at the State Crime Lab in Little Rock for autopsy.  Sheriff Bob Grudek says searchers found the body of Albert Rich, 58, on Wednesday, the day after his family last saw him.   The body was in a mountainous, heavily wooded area about 200 yards from Rich's home in southern Carroll County, between the communities of Metalton and Rudd.  The sheriff says the body shows no sign...

HARDY, Ark. -- Search crews recovered the body of a missing 4-year-old boy about 10 a.m. Wednesday after a group of six to eight canoers found it in the river.  It was not the outcome for which people hoped.  Caleb disappeared on Saturday morning during a cleanup day at Kia Kima Boy Scout Camp on the South Fork of the Spring River.  The body was in about two feet of water, around a quarter of a mile from where dive teams were last searching,...

GALENA, Mo. -- The Stone County prosecuting attorney charged two women with first-degree murder on Tuesday for the death of a man from Christian County who disappeared in late February.   Teri Dean and Cheryl Crawford were previously charged with tampering with evidence by cleaning up the blood of Carl Anderson of Highlandville at a home in eastern Stone County.   Eugene Crider, who was also charged with tampering with evidence, is not yet charged...

HARDY, Ark., -- In the waterways and woods, volunteers, law enforcers and family members of Caleb Linn fanned out on Tuesday to continue looking for the little boy. Cadaver-sniffing dogs alerted searchers to the first trace of Caleb since he went missing--his two shirts; they were found near the same spot along the South Fork of the Spring River, not far from the bridge where the four-year-old was last seen. "With the speed of the water that we looked at on Saturday, he could possibly be within a 2 to 21/2 mile radius.

HARDY, Ark. -- Police and volunteers again searched in and along the South Fork of the Spring River on Monday for a 4-year-old boy who disappeared on Saturday morning.  Fulton County Sheriff Buck Foley says more than 150 people searched for Caleb Linn, who disappeared at the Kia Kima Boy Scout Camp near Hardy. No one has reported seeing Caleb since he left a group involved in a camp cleanup to try to catch up to several boys who had left for their campsite about half a mile away.  The group is not affiliated with the Boy Scouts.  Caleb is from Springdale, which is 150 miles west of Hardy.

ICONIUM, Mo. -- Missouri State Highway Patrol searchers found the bodies of two missing duck hunters in Truman Lake on Tuesday morning.  The bodies of Sean Sheldon, 43, and Jason Evans, 34, both of whom lived near Roscoe, were near their submerged boat near Bear Creek on Horsehoe Bend, about 10 miles east of Osceola.  Sheldon was the son of St. Clair County Coroner Randy Sheldon. Relatives reported the two men failed to return from their hunting trip on Monday night.  They'd gone out about 2:30 p.m.  The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department asked the Highway Patrol to help with the search about 9 p.m. Sgt. Jason Pace, a spokesman for the patrol's Troop D, said searchers used boats, thermal imaging equipment and a plane during the night.  A helicopter crew spotted the submerged boat about 8:30 a.m. and then searchers on the water found their bodies floating nearby.