HOOVER, Ala.—A 25-year-old Alabama woman returned home late Saturday after being the focus of a two-day search by police and family members who reported her missing after she stopped to check on a child who was walking along a highway. Police said Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell had returned to the home she shares with her…

What if the veil was finally lifted on one of the greatest enigmas in the history of mankind, namely the disappearance of the Rapa Nui, the inhabitants of the mysterious Easter Island lost in the Pacific? …

AURORA, Ind.—Search crews pulled from the Ohio River in Indiana an SUV that belonged to an Ohio mother missing since 2002 along with her two young children, authorities said Friday. Side sonar scan technology led divers to the 1997 Nissan Pathfinder Thursday near Aurora in southeastern Indiana, Indiana State Police said Friday in a news…

A serving London police officer has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Sarah Everard, in a development described by senior officers as shocking and deeply disturbing. Everard, 33, was last seen a week ago, as she walked from a friend’s house in South London to her home near Clapham Common. On Tuesday night,…