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A man sought in the killings of three people found in a burning Riverside home and killed in a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies in the Mojave Desert town of Needles was identified as a Virginian lawman, authorities said Sunday.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Bunker Lane in Palm Coast, about 60 miles south of Jacksonville, on the evening of Sept. 27 about a report of a possible child abduction, it said in a news release. 

A 48-year-old man suspected of kidnapping and killing a family in Central California used to work for the victims’ trucking business, NBC Bay Area has learned.

Authorities in California say a kidnapped family of four has been found dead.

The Merced County Sheriff’s Office released footage of the kidnapping of four family members at gunpoint in Merced, California.

An autopsy report shows that a Tennessee kindergarten teacher who police said was kidnapped during a pre-dawn run and then killed earlier this month died from a gunshot wound to the head.

Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis provided details on Tuesday on the grim discovery of missing teacher Eliza Fletcher’s body the night before and the arrest of a suspect in her murder.

Cleotha Abston, 38, “has been charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence,” the Memphis Police Department statement said Sunday. 

News agencies report that an 83-year-old missionary nun from Louisiana has been released nearly five months after she was kidnapped from her bed in the west African country of Burkina Faso.

The woman who was seen screaming, bloodied, for help was found safe — along with the truck and driver. Somehow, the situation only got more confusing. And now we get this reveal.

A woman who was kidnapped in D.C. by her boyfriend has been found safe, police say. News4’s Pat Collins reports.

Police on Tuesday recovered a 3-month-old baby who had been kidnapped a day earlier from his grandmother’s San Jose home.

UPDATE, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday: Police on Tuesday recovered a 3-month-old baby who had been kidnapped a day earlier from his grandmother’s San Jose home, NBC Bay Area has learned.

The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children and holding them and their driver for $5 million ransom in 1976 was recommended for parole with the support of two of the victims.

A Northern California woman whose disappearance and mysterious reappearance set off a frantic three-week search more than five years ago has been arrested.

A New York girl who was reported missing from her Tompkins County home in July 2019, when she was 4 years old, has been located safely, police in Ulster County’s Saugerties department said Tuesday.

Suspect Joseph Beecher, 48, has been charged with kidnapping in federal court after allegedly mtaking a woman captive at gunpoint Wednesday and taking her across state lines.

An 11-year-old girl was in the backseat of her mother’s SUV when a carjacking suspect stole the car in Montgomery County. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

A 10-year-old girl was in the back seat of her mother’s SUV when a man jumped in and drove off. News4’s Megan McGrath spoke with the girl’s family about what happened.

An 11-year-old girl is home safe after a carjacking suspect stole her mother’s SUV in Montgomery County, Maryland, and then abandoned her and the car once he discovered she was in the back seat, her family says. The girl was waiting in her mother’s Honda Pilot on Fenwick Lane in Silver Spring about 11 p.m. Thursday, when the suspect...