Cold raises worry over missing boys
Authorities grew more concerned Saturday about two young brothers missing for three days from the Red Lake Indian Reservation after temperatures dipped below freezing overnight.
Teams of searchers aided by trained dogs and aircraft with sophisticated camera equipment looked until nightfall Saturday for Tristan Anthony White, 4, and Avery Lee Stately, 2, both missing since Wednesday.
Searchers were out until dark Saturday and planned to head back out this morning. Temperatures were in the mid 20s Saturday afternoon and were forecast to dip to around 20 degrees overnight.
The FBI was also investigating the possibility that the boys were taken.
HONOLULU
Midway Atoll may open to visitors
Isolated from most of the world, Midway Atoll could open to visitors next year on a limited basis.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working on a draft plan and may start a regularly scheduled visitor program as early as mid-2007, said Barbara Maxfield, spokeswoman for the agency’s Pacific Islands office.
The tentative plan would probably accommodate fewer than 30 visitors at a time to the remote U.S. island, a historic World War II military site, she said.
The public can currently only get to the island by boarding a cruise from Asia, hitching a ride with resident government workers or volunteering for three months of environmental duty.
Midway, located 1,250 miles northwest of Honolulu, is known for the crucial 1942 Battle of Midway that turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific.
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla.
Woman died behind bookcase
A woman’s body was found wedged upside-down behind a bookcase in the home she shared with relatives who had spent nearly two weeks looking for her.
A spokesman for the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office said Mariesa Weber’s death was not suspicious. Family members said they believe she fell over as she tried to adjust the plug of a television behind the bookshelf.
Weber, 38, returned home Oct. 28 and greeted her mother, then wasn’t seen again. Her family thought she had been kidnapped and contacted authorities. Family members scoured her room for clues but found nothing, though they did notice a strange smell.
One night Weber’s sister went into her bedroom and looked behind a bookcase, where she saw the woman’s foot. Using a flashlight the family saw Weber behind the unit.