A judge has set a trial date for a woman charged with killing her newborn baby and leaving the child’s body in a department store trash can.

Jessica Price – who pleaded not guilty to murder, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse – will go to trial on Dec. 2.

Police say the 21-year-old gave birth at the Kohl’s in Hillview in Bullitt County on Aug. 8 during her shift and left the newborn’s body in the trash can before going home.

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Price had initially told police the baby was not breathing when she was born. However, police have said the girl was born at full term, and an autopsy found air in the infant’s lungs, which suggested it would have been breathing. Another Kohl’s employee told police she heard a baby crying in the restroom that day.

Price told police in January during a second interview that she may have suffocated the newborn.

She told police during a three-hour interview in September she learned she was pregnant only one month before giving birth and that when she delivered her daughter, she thought she’d miscarried.

“I found out about a month ago; I had my period the entire time,” she said. “I have had a miscarriage before and it did the same thing, I just was home at the time when I lost the baby last time.”

Price admitted trying to clean the baby off with paper towels and then throwing her newborn daughter in the trash can.

“I picked it up and it wasn’t moving, it wasn’t breathing, and the umbilical cord had already separated and I panicked, I got scared,” she said.

Detective: “And what did you do next?”

Price: “I got the trash bag and I put it in there.”

Price said she could not come up with an answer as to why she did not seek medical attention.

Price has entered a not guilty plea to murder, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse. She’s on home incarceration awaiting trial.

The Branson Police Department has issued an Endangered Missing Person alert for two girls taken from their grandparent’s residence by their father.  The Division of Family Services is being awarded custody of the children, but authorities say 44-year-old John Russell Fant took his daughters, eight-year-old Farrah and six-year-old Dililah.  Authorities say Fant also withdrew a large sum of money from a bank, then fled the area.  If you have any information about their whereabouts please call 911.

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FROM THE MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL

Endangered Person Advisory

State of Missouri Endangered Person Advisory

The Branson Police Department has issued an Endangered Person Advisory for a missing person incident that occurred at 34 Gulfshore Drive #18, Branson, MO between 09:30 PM on 04/10/2014 and 12:20 AM 04/11/2014.

Missing Is:
Farrah Grace Fant a white, female, age 8 and Dililah Maren Fant a white, female, age 6

Vehicle Information:
Silver or Grey 2002 Toyota RAV4 bearing an unknown South Carolina temporary registration last seen at 34 Gulf Shores Drive, Branson with an unknown direction of travel.

Possible suspects or associates are believed to be:
John Russell Fant, a white, male, age 44, hgt 5’11, 175 lbs, brown hair, blue eyes, wearing unknown clothing .

The endangered missing person:
Farrah Grace Fant, is a white, female, age 8, hgt 36 in, 52 lbs, brown hair, blue eyes, wearing flower print pajamas.

Dililah Maren Fant, is a white, female, age 6, hgt 46 in, 48 lbs, brown hair, blue eyes, small red birthmark on the inner thigh, wearing flower print pajamas.

Brief circumstances regarding the Endangered Missing Person incident:The Division of Family Services is being awarded custody of the children. The father, John Fant, took the children from their grandparent’s residence, withdrew a large sum of money from a bank, and fled the area. Suspect is known to frequently stay at time shares but has no known permanent address.

Anyone seeing the missing person, suspect, associate, or vehicle, or anyone having any information related to the endangered missing person should immediately dial 911 to contact the nearest law enforcement agency or call the Branson Police Department at (417) 334-3300.

The Portland Police Bureau’s Missing Persons Unit is asking the public to help locate a medically endangered missing man.

Tim Walden, 64, was reported missing from his residential care facility in the 10400 block of Southeast Cora Street, since about 3:00 a.m. Friday, April 11.

Walden is described as a white male, 64 years old, 5’9″, weighing 180 pounds. He has short, salt/pepper gray hair, and brown eyes. He is missing a number of teeth; his clothing description is unknown.

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Walden suffers from a serious medical condition, which requires immediate care. He can sometimes seem quite lucid, or may seem altered and confused. He was last known to be on foot, and tends to walk very slowly.

East Precinct uniform officers have been working with Missing Persons Unit detectives to attempt to locate Walden, including conducting searches of the surrounding area. A specially trained, state-certified Search & Rescue K9 team is assisting in the search.

Detectives will also be activating the “A Child Is Missing” (ACIM) emergency, reverse phone notification system in the area, which will send out a pre-recorded message to listed landline phone numbers in the local area, advising of a missing person.

Anyone who knows of Walden’s whereabouts is asked to immediately call 9-1-1. Anyone with additional, non-emergency information about this case is asked to contact Detective Mike Weinstein, at 503-823-0446 or mike.weinstein@portlandoregon.gov.

Investigators said Thursday that  they’re not giving up on the search for a missing toddler.

Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker said deputies still believe Myra Lewis, 2, is alive.

Tucker said investigators will continue to follow up on any leads.

Myra was reported missing by her family on March 1. An intense search followed with local, state and federal agencies looking for clues in wooded areas around the girl’s home and a nearby pond.

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“We’ll continue to search. I’m upset that we aren’t able to find Myra, but we have reason to believe that she is still alive and still want to get her home,” Tucker said.

Meanwhile, Myra’s mother remains in jail because of a probation violation. She’ll face trial on May 19.

NAME: Harrison, Elizabeth J. DOB 6/15/77
AKA: Goldstein, Elizabeth
DESCRIPTION: Female, Caucasian, brown eyes, brown hair, 5’3”, 220lbs.
LAST CONTACT: April 4, 2014 @ 7:30 a.m.
CLOTHING: Unknown

Ms. Harrison was last seen on April 4, 2014, at 7:30 a.m. at the Motel 6, located on 7450 Katella Ave., in the city of Stanton where she currently resides. Although Ms. Harrison has a history of leaving for days at a time without notifying anyone, family members are concerned because she left the motel without any money or identification. Ms. Harrison does not have a vehicle and would most likely be traveling on foot.

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Anyone with any information regarding Ms. Harrison’s whereabouts is asked to call the Orange County Sheriff’s Department at 714-647-7055 or Sheriff’s Dispatch at 714-647-7000

Deputies in Whitley County are hoping you can help them track down two people who ran away from a car wreck where an active meth lab was found in the vehicle.

It happened just before 9 p.m. April 9 near the intersection of Highway 204 and Gibson Lane.

Witnesses told deputies a tan Mazda hit an embankment and rolled several times.

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The two people climbed out of the crashed car and ran away.

The intersection was closed until midnight for clean up.

If you have any information on the case, please call the Whitley County Sheriff’s Office.

A woman who police say helped kill a Wolfe County man in 2010 was formally sentenced Thursday.

Despite testimony from the daughter of murder victim Robert Bryant, the judge accepted a plea deal before Rebecca Wright’s case went to trial.

Wright pleaded guilty to murder charges and was sentenced to 24 years in prison. The robbery and tampering with physical evidence charges against her were dropped. She could have faced 40 years in prison had her case gone to trial.

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Wright’s ex-boyfriend and the victim’s cousin, Lloyd Bryant, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the robbery and murder.

Lloyd Bryant pleaded guilty to murder and other charges in the violent stabbing death of his 44-year-old cousin in 2010, with whom Lloyd was living with at the time.

Three months after Robert let Lloyd live with him, police say Lloyd and his then-girlfriend, Rebecca Wright, turned on Robert, stabbing him at least 15 times and slitting his throat before stealing his vehicle.

Wright watched Thursday morning in court as her victims’ daughter testified.

Andrea Bryant, at times directing her testimony at Wright, said she believed both suspects deserved capital punishment, especially since, in her eyes, neither showed any remorse.

“I want her to look at me and see that it’s not for show. I’m here because I cared about my dad. And she took a very very big part of our family when she took him,” Andrea said.

The family of the victim says they are disappointed by the outcome.

“Lloyd Junior got 40 years and she got 24? And there are two weapons and they should both have got the same thing, which is what we wanted,” said Carolyn Baker, Robert’s mother, in an interview with LEX 18 in March, when the family found out about the deal.

The Madison County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a suspect in a home invasion in the Union City area.

Officials are looking for Aaron Douglas Tate, 32, of Richmond in connection to a home invasion from March.

Officials say Tate broke into the home around 6 a.m. on March 19 and was confronted by the victim while inside. Tate then took off.

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Once caught he will be charged with burglary second degree and criminal mischief second degree. Tate is also facing other charges of child support and fugitive from another state (Tennessee).

Anyone with information on Tate’s whereabouts or location is asked to contact the Madison County Sheriff’s Office.

Lexington police have arrested a man whom they say was a Ft. Knox drill sergeant accused of sexually abusing a young relative.

According to court documents, Aaron F. Walker, 40, admitted to another sergeant that he tried to carry out a sex act on a 4-year-old girl in the fall of 2013. Police say he later admitted the incident to investigators. According to court documents, the incident happened in a motel room in Fayette County.

Police arrested Walker Wednesday and charged him with sexual abuse.

A Carroll County couple was indicted by a grand jury Thursday in the murder of their toddler son.

Douglas Allen, 26, and Amanda Foster, 28, have been indicted in the Feb. 19 death of their 2-year-old son, who had extremely high levels of Oxycodone in his system at the time of his death, according to the Carroll County coroner.

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Police say Foster called 911 the morning of Feb. 19 telling dispatchers she had found her son unresponsive in his bed. A toxicology report showed extremely high levels of Oxycodone caused the child’s death.

Detectives believe it was Allen who allegedly gave his son a Schedule II narcotic the night before the boy died. Allen was arrested at the Kentucky State Police post in Campbellsburg during interrogation that same day, and later charged with murder. Foster was arrested at her home on April 1 on charges of criminal abuse and transfer of a controlled substance to a minor.

They were both indicted on Thursday on charges of murder, three counts of criminal abuse first, two counts of transferring a controlled substance to a minor, tampering with physical evidence, trafficking in a controlled substance first, and trafficking in a controlled substance second.

The grand jury also returned an indictment against Paul Byers, 50, in connection with the case. Byers was indicted on charges of tampering with physical evidence, trafficking in a controlled substance first, and trafficking in a controlled substance second.

Police did not release any other information on how Byers was related to the case.

Both parents are being held in the Carroll County Detention Center.