13-Year-Old Missing Ohio Girl Found Alive - ABC News

The 13-year-old girl in a group of four people that went missing in Ohio last week was reportedly found safe today.

Sarah Maynard was found inside a home in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and taken to Knox Community Hospital for evaluation, according to WBNS-TV in Columbus.

One person was taken into custody, but no other details were available, the television station reported.

Police had scheduled a news conference this afternoon to discuss their investigation of the disappearance Thursday of two women and two children from Howard, a small town in central Ohio.

Police reported Saturday that an "unusual amount of blood" was found in the home of Maynard's mother, Tina Herrmann, home after the four vanished last week.

"The one thing I can say about it is that it's an unusual amount," Knox County Sheriff David Barber said Saturday. "It isn't from someone stubbing their toe or cutting their finger, you know, or peeling an apple or something like that."

Also still missing are Herrmann's 10-year-old son Kody Maynard, and a friend, Stephanie Sprang, 41.

Ohio police are searching for the remaining three missing people, whose alarming disappearance prompted an Ohio college to go on lockdown Thursday night as police warned of a "potentially dangerous person in the vicinity."

Herrmann, 32, was reported missing by her boyfriend on Wednesday.

When she did not show up for work at a Dairy Queen Thursday, her co-workers went to her home looking for her and soon after called the police, Barber said.

"Thursday, Tina did not show up at work; she works at the local Dairy Queen in Mount Vernon," he said. "A co-worker came out and met deputies out here. Her truck was gone."

"When [Herrmann's co-worker] went in, she saw some things out of place," the sheriff said.

A search of the home revealed it to be in "unusual condition" for a place where woman and children lived, Barber said, but did not specify what that meant.

Herrmann's ex-husband Larry Maynard told WBNS-TV that a co-worker went inside the home and saw blood and things out of place before calling police.

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Ohio college locked down amid case of 4 missing - Daily American Online

HOWARD, Ohio (AP) — Authorities were searching for an Ohio woman, her two children and a female friend in an investigation that prompted an overnight lockdown on the campus of a college where the woman’s pickup truck was found nearby, a sheriff said Friday.

The 32-year-old mother was reported missing by her boyfriend on Wednesday, and her co-worker at a Dairy Queen went to her home in Howard to check on her when she didn’t show up for work on Thursday, Knox County Sheriff David Barber said told WBNS-TV. Also missing are the woman’s 13-year-old daughter, 10-year-old son, and a 41-year-old woman who is a friend, he said.

“When (the co-worker) went in, she saw some things out of place,” the sheriff told the television station. A subsequent police search of the house determined that it was in an “unusual condition” for a place where a woman and two children were living, Barber said.

It was unclear what led to their disapperance, and Barber did not elaborate.

The friend’s vehicle was found parked at the home.

The mother’s pickup truck was at the home Wednesday when the boyfriend reported her missing, but it was found abandoned Thursday night on property owned by nearby Kenyon College, about 50 miles northeast of Columbus. The college ordered a lockdown of all students until 7 a.m. Friday.

The truck was discovered at the Brown Family Environmental Center, across the road from campus, but was later removed. The sheriff’s office told the school that the vehicle was believed to be connected to a crime scene.

An e-mail sent to Kenyon students, provided to The Associated Press, says “local law enforcement advised of a potentially dangerous person in the vicinity.”

David McCabe, 18, a Kenyon freshman from New York, said the college sent vans to take students to their dorms from the campus library and student center.

“At first people were a little nervous, but I think in general most people felt pretty safe,” McCabe said, speaking of the students in his dorm. The college radio station kept students updated on the situation, McCabe said.

“As it became clear that the lockdown was more a precaution than a threat, people became a little calmer,” he said.

The sheriff’s office, the state’s Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation and the college safety office declined to comment on the situation.

Bill Miller, a bus driver for the East Knox local schools, said he was very familiar with the two missing children and said he picked them up every day as part of his route.

“(They are) perfect kids, never had any trouble with the kids. They were great,” Miller said, stopping to talk in his car Friday morning while driving to his bus. “They’re always out in the yard, playing ball back and forth, kicking stuff around. No problems I ever saw.”

Kenyon is a private liberal arts college in central Ohio with an enrollment of about 1,600.

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Taiwan Rescue Workers Find Bus Missing in Mudslide - Voice of America

VOA News 23 October 2010

A tour bus is seen engulfed by a land slide caused by heavy rains from passing Typhoon Megi on the coast highway in Ilan county, north eastern Taiwan, 23 Oct 2010

Rescue workers in Taiwan searching a mountainside hit by massive mudslides caused by Typhoon Megi have found mangled parts of a vehicle they think is the bus that was carrying 19 missing Chinese tourists.

Taiwanese officials on Saturday said the bus was covered by thick mud. Military personnel found the front bumper and were attempting to dig out the wreckage from the landslide. There was no word on the fate of the passengers.

Chinese tourists on a second bus that was crushed by a huge boulder managed to escape by smashing the windows of the coach.

Overall, Taiwanese officials said at least 23 people remained unaccounted for.

As the Taiwan rescue operation continued, the weakened storm hit the Chinese mainland. It was downgraded to a strong tropical storm with maximum winds of 108 kilometers per hour and was expected to weaken further as it heads northwest through the Chinese interior.

Several buses carrying Chinese tourists were on a 10-kilometer stretch of Taiwan's Ilan coastal highway that was hit by rockslides on Thursday night. A 500-meter stretch of the highway collapsed, stranding 400 people. All had been rescued by Saturday.

Before hitting Taiwan, Megi killed at least 28 people in the Philippines. Disaster officials said more than 100,000 homes were damaged by the storm, causing $190 million in damage to buildings and crops.

Other storms in Southeast Asia in the last week have also caused massive flooding. The Associated Press said the death toll has reached 75 in Vietnam and 23 in Thailand.

Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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