The search for a 2-year-old boy who wandered away from his grandmother three days ago has been opened to law enforcement statewide.

Noah Chamberlin has been missing since Thursday afternoon while walking in the woods in the Pinson community with his grandmother and 4-year-old sister.

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Madison County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tom Mapes told The Jackson Sun there was no update overnight. Use of civilian volunteers in the search has been temporarily suspended.

Law enforcement from multiple state and local agencies, as well as volunteers from across the mid-South, have been searching around the clock since he was reported missing.

Mapes said “much prayer” is needed for Noah’s safe return.

Anyone with information should call the Chester County Sheriff’s Office at (731) 989-2787 or Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND FREE.

Investigators from the Springfield Police Department arrested 28-year-old Justin Richard Waldrip Friday on multiple charges stemming from an online sexual predator sting operation, according to a department news release.

Authorities say a Springfield Police Detective posing as a 14-year-old girl corresponded online with Waldrip over a two day period and during those online conversations, police say Waldrip “expressed his desire to engage in sexual contact with a known minor and arranged to meet her.”

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According to the report, Waldrip showed up at a predetermined location with the belief he was meeting the minor for the purpose of sexual contact. He was instead met by detectives from the Springfield Police Department and taken into custody.

Waldrip was charged with Online Sexual Corruption of a Child 1, Two counts of Online Sexual Corruption of a Child 2, Attempted Use of a Child in a Display of Sexually Explicit Conduct and two counts of Luring a Minor.

He was lodged at the Lane County Jail.

Search and rescue crews are still looking Saturday for a 23-year-old man who went missing Thursday afternoon while skiing at Sugar Bowl Resort at Donner Summit.

The Placer County Sheriff’s Office on Friday identified the skier as Carson May, of Davis, Calif., who works at Sugar Bowl’s Mountain Sports Learning Center as a ski school instructor.

“There are 43 searchers on the mountain. There’s high avalanche danger in certain areas, which won’t be searched for now,” according to a PCSO statement at about 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

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The search resumed at 7 a.m. Saturday. Teams looking include those from the PCSO Auburn and Tahoe stations, Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue, Tahoe Avalanche dogs, Contra Costa County Search and Rescue, National Ski Patrol, and Sugar Bowl ski patrol.

PCSO officials said May got lost after his last ski run Thursday while working at the resort.

“He did not show up for his ride home, and it was discovered (Friday) morning that he never made it home last night,” according to a PCSO statement Friday. “His belongings are still in his locker at the resort.

“May was last seen wearing a blue Colombia jacket, bright green pants, and a blue helmet.”

Sugar Bowl officials on Friday said May was reported missing at about 10 a.m., once his friends realized he did not make it home the night before.

Ski patrol, PCSO officials and TNSAR volunteers began searching Friday morning by ski, snowmobile and Snocat, according to Sugar Bowl, focusing in and around the last known area of the missing skier.

A search helicopter was flying over there resort’s backside on Friday. It will return Saturday should weather conditions allow, according to PCSO.

“Sugar Bowl Resort is in communication with the family, and the active search for the missing skier is currently ongoing,” officials said Friday afternoon.

The Tyler Police Department is asking for assistance locating a critical missing person. Yolanda Marie Redic was last seen in the area of Robbins and Lyons street at 6:30 a.m. in Tyler. She is described as a black female, 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds with dreadlock hairstyle and wearing a green sweater and blue jeans.

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Anyone with information should call the Tyler Police Department at 903-531-1000

Police are searching for a woman who robbed a Lexington hotel by gunpoint.

Investigators say the Quality Inn off of Newtown Court was robbed just before midnight on Friday.

Police tell LEX 18 that a woman entered the office of the hotel with a handgun and demanded money. She then fled the building with an unknown amount of cash.

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K-9 units were used to track her but lost her scent in the parking lot of the Kentucky Highway Department building, where police believe she left in a vehicle.

Investigators say the woman was wearing a gray hoodie, gray sweatpants and a camouflage jacket.

No injuries were reported.