A 9-month-old girl is dead after a relative cut her throat with a power saw, a Chicago police official with knowledge of the investigation said Monday.

Officers found the child after being called Monday morning to a building on the city’s West Side.

The police official confirmed media reports that a 52-year-old relative used a circular saw to cut the baby’s throat, apparently because the girl wouldn’t stop crying. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because an official autopsy had not been performed.

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The official said the woman is in police custody at a hospital with self-inflicted wounds.

Police said both the baby and the woman were found by another relative.

Illinois Department of Children and Family Services officials said the agency had no prior contact with the family. Authorities said no other children were present in the home at the time of the incident.

Ben Llamas works with the child’s father and drove him to the scene. Llamas told the Chicago Tribune the father was upset but did not talk about what happened.

His friend had moved into that house about a year ago with a woman, Llamas said. Together the couple had a young child.

“At first, he was reluctant, but when the baby came, he fell in love,” Llamas said. “He shows us pictures of that baby every day.”

Neighbors said several people live in the home where the baby was found.

“They were really good people,” Francisco Arreola told the Chicago Tribune in Spanish. “I would always see them and they were very happy. I never heard them fight or anything.”

The Yankton Police Department needs help in finding a guy they say was last seen traveling to Sioux City Monday.

They say they’re worried about this man 52-year-old John Tinker because he needs medications.

He is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weight about 260 pounds with brown hair and eyes.

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He was last seen wearing a brown and tan poncho and tan ball cap and brown carpenter pants.

If you know where Mr. Tinker can be found contact the Yankton Police Department or Crime Stoppers at 605-668-5210 or 605-665-4440.

Apex Police are looking for a missing man who last made contact with his employer on Feb 23.

Police are searching for Raymond Alan Myers, 54. Myers last contacted his employer on Feb 23 to let them know he was leaving his work vehicle in Greensboro.

Police said Myers cell phone signaled off of a tower in Salisbury on Feb. 23 and his bank card was also used at a McDonald’s in Burlington on Feb. 23.

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Myers lives in Johnston County but works in Apex.

Myers’ work vehicle is a white 2013 Chevy Silverado 2500HD with cargo boxes and a North Carolina registration for EL9012.

Myers family is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Myers.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Apex Police Department at 919-362-8661.

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Unidentified Human Remains – Immokalee, Florida

Attention: Violent Crime/Missing Person/Cold Case/Crime Analysis Units

Found on October 18, 1980, in Immokalee, Florida

2/10/2015

The remains of an unidentified Hispanic male were discovered in Immokalee, Florida. The victim was wearing Levi’s brand blue jeans; K-Mart brand underwear; a Prest Rite-brand long-sleeved, red-checked flannel shirt; green socks with orange and white stripes at the top; and brown boots. The victim may have had family living in Houston and Dallas, Texas. He was known by the name Raldalpho or Raldalfo (name spelling was determined to vary).

Race: Hispanic

Sex: Male

Age: 20 to 25 years old

Height: 5’6″

Weight: 154 pounds

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

Distinguishing characteristics: Linear scars on both the left and right arms

Agency Case #: 80-36053

NamUs #: 1294

ViCAP Alert#: 2015-01-01

To provide or request additional information, please contact Senior CRI Kim K. Cherney, Collier County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office, at 239-252-0050 or kim.cherney@colliersheriff.org or kim.cherney@leo.gov or the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) at 800-634-4097 or vicap@leo.gov.

Missing Person – Atlantic City, New Jersey

Attention: Violent Crime/ Cold Case/Crime Analysis Units

Sierra Sahara Thomas

Missing since November 21, 2002, from Atlantic City, New Jersey

2/10/2015

On November 21, 2002, Sierra Thomas was with a male friend when her then-current boyfriend saw them together. A short time later, the victim and her boyfriend met. He is the last person to see her alive. He was last seen wearing light blue sweatpants, dark blue or black shirt, black jacket, and a multicolored scarf.

Race: Black

Sex: Female

Age: 19 years old (at time of disappearance)

Height: 5’1″ to 5’2″

Weight: 140 to 150 pounds

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown                                                    

Agency Case #: 02-158598

NamUs #: 11955

ViCAP Alert#: 2015-02-01                                                

To provide or request additional information, please contact Detective Charles Stuart, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Police Department, at 609-318-4450 or cstuart@acpolice.org or the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) at 800-634-4097 or vicap@leo.gov.

Unidentified Human Remains – Alsip, Illinois

Attention: Violent Crime/Missing Person/Cold Case/Crime Analysis Units

Found on 09/23/1980 in Alsip, Illinois

2/10/2015

On 09/23/1980 at approximately 12:19 p.m., the body of a black female was located in the Cal-Sag Channel in Alsip, Illinois. The victim was facedown in the fetal position naked from the waist down. She had six stab wounds to her back and two to her chest. She was bound with an electrical cord around her hands and had a neck tie around her neck, which also bound one hand to her upper legs. Her face was covered with adhesive tape. She was found wearing a blue wool sweater, dark floral blouse, and a beige bra.

Race: Black

Sex: Female

Age: 19 to 25 years old

Height: 5’5″ to 5’7″

Weight: 133 pounds

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

ViCAP Alert#: 2015-02-02

To provide or request additional information, please contact Special Agent Ken O’Brien, Illinois State Police, at 847-608-3213 or Kenneth_Obrien@isp.state.il.us or the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) at 800-634-4097 or vicap@leo.gov.

Unidentified Human Remains – Clay County, Missouri

Attention: Violent Crime/Missing Person/Cold Case/Crime Analysis Units

Found on April 18, 1985 in Clay County, Missouri

Victim’s Hair Comb

Composite Sketch

Reconstruction

3/10/2015

On April 18, 1985 the victim’s remains were found in a field on Cooley Road north of Route 210 in rural Southeastern Clay County, Missouri. The only remains found were the victim’s skull and a few other bones. There was a brown hair comb, numerous teeth, and two bullets recovered near the skull.

Sex: Female

Race: Unknown

Age: 18 – 25

Height: Approximately 5’5″

Weight: Unknown

Hair: Brown

ViCAP alert #: 2015-03-01

To provide or request additional information, please contact Detective Shane O’Roark of the Clay County, Missouri, Sheriff’s Office at 816-407-3716 or coldcase@sheriffclayco.com or the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) at 800-634-4097 or vicap@leo.gov.

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St. Louis County Police issued an endangered person advisory for a 45-year-old man reported missing Sunday.

Charles Brown was last seen in the 430 block of South 15^th Street around 9:00 a.m. He was at the St. Louis Greyhound bus station en route to Wisconsin via Chicago.

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Brown has a diminished mental capacity and other mental health issues, but has no access to his medication, police say.

Brown is described as a 5-foot-10, 215 pound man with brown eyes and a mustache. He was wearing a red and blue hat, black leather jacket, blue jeans and brown boots when he was last seen.

Anyone having any information related to the endangered missing person should immediately dial 911 to contact the nearest law enforcement agency or call the St. Louis County Police Department at 314-615-5360.

Two North Dakota brothers were sentenced Monday to prison time and ordered to pay back more than $900,000 for intentionally destroying potatoes to collect federal farm insurance payments.

In separate hearings, U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson sentenced Aaron Johnson to four years in prison and Derek Johnson to 1½ years in prison. A jury in December convicted the pair of conspiring to receive illegal payments and giving false statements.

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Prosecutors accused the brothers of adding spoiled and frozen potatoes to their stored crop and using portable heaters to make the potatoes deteriorate faster. The defendants found that the best way to wreck the crop was using Rid-X, a chemical that’s designed to dissolve solid materials in septic systems, prosecutors said.

Erickson said the brothers need to serve prison time to reflect the seriousness of the crime and deter others from similar conduct.

“This was a crime of dishonesty,” Erickson said during Aaron Johnson’s sentencing, which was held first. “It defrauded the taxpayers of the United States.”

Erickson ordered the Johnsons, who farmed near Cooperstown, to pay back the government $932,776. The judge determined the government could prove fraud only for the 2006 growing season.

Both Somah Yarney, Aaron Johnson’s attorney, and Benjamin Thomas, Derek Johnson’s attorney, appealed for leniency based on their ability to pay restitution if they weren’t incarcerated and their value to their families and communities. Thomas said Derek Johnson lost his job, his house and may lose his wife and children because they now live in British Columbia and Johnson will likely be barred from returning to Canada.

“His punishment is real. And it has already occurred,” Thomas said.

Yarney noted that Aaron Johnson donated potatoes to schools, senior centers and churches to help Northwood recover from a 2007 tornado that wiped out much of the town. She said a sentence of probation would help his effort to pay back the government.

Yarney successfully argued that the government could not show illegal payments in 2002-05.

Thomas argued that Aaron Johnson was more culpable than Derek in the conspiracy. Aaron Johnson, Thomas said, made most of the decisions without Derek’s knowledge.

“If anything, Aaron was managing Derek in this enterprise,” Thomas said. “Derek was managing nobody.”

Both brothers asked to serve their sentences in Duluth, Minnesota.

A 30-year-old male named Blake Elford walked away from his assisted living facility without his medications at 6 p.m. Monday, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.

MCSO has issued a missing endangered person report.

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The missing man left Paradise ALF, 1207 30th Ave. E., Bradenton, has no known family or friends in the area, according to the report and took no clothes or belongings with him.

The missing man is described as 5-foot-3, 150 pounds, red hair, hazel eyes, fade haircut and goatee. He was last seen wearing jeans, a blue-and-white striped shirt, and brown combat boots with green toes.