Adventurer Is Reported Missing
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Steve Fossett, a tycoon-turned-record-seeker who became the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon, vanished Monday while flying a single-engine plane over rugged terrain in Nevada, authorities said.
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U.S. millionaire adventurer Steve  Fossett, who made record-breaking solo flights by plane and  balloon, has disappeared over the Nevada desert after taking  off in a small plane to scout sites for an attempt to set a  world land speed record, authorities said on Tuesday.
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An autistic hiker lost for four days has been found alive and reunited with his family, a spokesman for the search effort said Thursday afternoon.
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RENO, Nevada  - Air crews began their third full day searching for missing U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett on Thursday after coming up with no clues despite an all-night mission by a plane carrying infrared equipment.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The Coast Guard searched the waters off Northern California on Wednesday for an award-winning computer scientist missing since a weekend sailing trip to scatter his mother's ashes at sea.
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A group of foreign tourists, mostly from France, reportedly go missing in a remote part of Ethiopia.
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Searchers were scheduled to begin looking again Wednesday for missing adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared in a single-engine plane after taking off from a friend's desert ranch, the Civil Air Patrol said.
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RENO, Nevada  - U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett, who made record-breaking solo flights around the world by plane and balloon, is missing after taking off in a small plane, aviation authorities said on Tuesday.
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A plane flown by record breaking US adventurer Steve Fossett is missing in Nevada, officials say.
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Hunt for man believed to have absconded from control order on June 18.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 -- Mark Rebholz had flown across the North Atlantic in an open-cockpit biplane with Steve Fossett. So when the more famous adventure pilot was reported missing in a stunt plane over the dry mountain terrain southeast of Reno on Sept. 3, Rebholz felt as much amused interest as...
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 31--The mystery of what happened to Microsoft engineer Jim Gray deepened Tuesday, with leads of a possible sighting of his boat turning up nothing despite a massive search from Monterey Bay to Oregon.
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Police in France and England are searching for the Earl of Shaftesbury, who has disappeared on holiday.
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Pacific search California coastguards are searching for Microsoft researcher Jim Gray, who was reported missing at 8.30pm on Sunday after failing to return from a solo boat trip.â¦
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Family reported nine-year-old Shannon Matthews missing when she did not come home from school yesterday
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Gary Michael Hilton has been charged with kidnapping in the case of missing hiker Meredith Emerson, a spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Saturday. He was the last person seen with Emerson in the north Georgia mountains.
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A prominent Chinese AIDS activist has gone missing after meeting with police in a suspected clampdown ahead of World AIDS Day, his organization said Saturday.