Investigators on Thursday told the son of two people who died in a Lincoln County fire Wednesday night that the granddaughter of the couple is suspected of setting the fire because she was upset with her grandparents.

Dispatchers say they got a call for help around 11 p.m., saying a mobile home on Joe McMullin Road was on fire. The caller, the granddaughter, made it out, but Everett Garland, 64, and Linda Garland, 60, were killed in the blaze.

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Firefighters say they think the fire started in the home’s living room and spread into the attic. Kentucky State Police detectives and arson investigators are continuing to investigate.

The granddaughter, who is 16-years-old, has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of arson.

A Baxter County man and convicted felon is arrested on felony fraud charges.

He was last seen more than two years ago. Now Kentucky State Police and his family are pleading again for help to find him.

Robert Hoskins, 28, disappeared from Harlan County in July of 2011.

State police are still looking for him and say they need the public’s help.

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His mother Angela Wolfgang says it is hard not knowing where her son is. She says she talked to her son Robert Hoskins everyday.

“He called me everyday and I told him I loved him, and he told me he loved me,” said Wolfgang.

She has not heard his voice in more than two years.

“I really miss him. This has traumatized me,” Wolfgang said.

Family says he was last seen on July 1st, 2011.

“His little girl meant the world to him. He wouldn’t leave his little girl,” Wolfgang said.

She says Hoskins’ daughter is now five years old and misses her daddy. “She misses him everyday,” Wolfgang said.

Family members say Hoskins was last seen in the Bledsoe area of Harlan County, but state police believe he was on Kentucky 221 in Bell County when he disappeared.

“We’ve not given up on this search for Robert Hoskins, and that’s why we’re reaching out to the community and asking for any assistance for his whereabouts, where he may be located,” said Trooper Shane Jacobs.

The family is offering a $2,000 reward for information that leads to finding Hoskins.

“We really need to know where’s he’s at, and it’s just really heartbreaking,” Wolfgang said.

“Even though two years have passed, since Robert Hoskins was reported missing, it’s not too late to call Post,” Trooper Jacobs said.

Angela Wolfgang hopes that call comes soon, so she can find her son.

“It would mean everything in the world to me,” she said.

She says she cannot bear going through another year not knowing.

Anyone with information should call the Kentucky State Police Post in Harlan at 606-573-3131. All tips can remain anonymous.

Boulder police today said there have been no reports of any missing people filed with the department after witnesses reported a possible kidnapping late Tuesday night.

Boulder police at around 10 p.m. received two unconfirmed reports that a woman was forced into a van near 15th Street and Canyon Boulevard.

There reportedly were four or five men in the van who were believed to have forced a woman with brown hair into the vehicle at a Circle K convenience store, according to police radio traffic.

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Police said they are looking for a white extended van with tinted windows and a partial license plate of 868-GY.

Sgt. David Skaggs with the Boulder police confirmed Tuesday night that one witness told an emergency dispatcher that a woman was kidnapped at gunpoint by a man in a ski mask.

But Boulder police spokeswoman Laurie Ogden said this morning there still are no missing persons reports and police have not been able to confirm the witness’ account. University of Colorado police spokesman Ryan Huff said CU police have also not received any missing person reports.

Anyone with direct information about the van or knowledge of the incident are urged to call the Boulder Police Department’s tip line at 303-441-1974 or police dispatch at 303-441-3333.

It is the second report of a possible armed kidnapping in Boulder in the past two months.

CU police investigated a report of a possible kidnapping on the Boulder campus near the Benson Earth Sciences Building in late September.

In that case, a student told police he saw a man point what appeared to be a handgun at another man before the two got into the back seat of a car and drove away.

No missing persons reports were ever filed in that case. Huff said at this time investigators believe the witness did see what they reported, but don’t know if it was an actual kidnapping.

“Whether there was criminal intent or some type of prank, we don’t know,” Huff said.

It’s been eight years since a man was sentenced to decades in prison for the murder of a former Lexington priest. Now, another man has written a letter to LEX 18, saying the wrong person was convicted.

Andy Turner, who’s serving time in Eddyville for writing cold checks, wrote a five-page letter to LEX 18 taking responsibility for the 2003 murder of Joseph Pilger. It’s a crime that Jason Russell already admitted to in 2005, and we talked to him right after his guilty plea.

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Lexington Police and Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Larson also confirm they received a copy of Turner’s letter and they’re looking into it, which is standard procedure.

Larson says to remember that Russell took full responsibility for the crime already and is serving a 30-year sentence for it.

The 78-year-old priest was killed with a pick axe because Russell says the priest and registered sex offender masturbated to pictures of his 6-year-old son.

Several children were removed from an Elgin home after deputies responded to a domestic dispute and found methamphetamine inside the house.

When deputies arrived, they found two women arguing, both claiming the other had been “smoking dope.” It didn’t take long for deputies to find evidence of illegal drug use.

After a short walk through, deputies were able to spot drug paraphernalia inside the home. Even worse, three young children were there. Deputies say both women then consented to further search of the home, leading to one of their arrests.

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Deputies arrested Brenda Chockpoyah after a drug dog alerted deputies to drugs inside her garage and a purse inside her bedroom. Before the search, deputies say Chockpoyah asked the officer if she could take her medication out of her purse. Deputies say she tried to conceal what she was doing. Police told everybody inside the home to go outside. That’s when drug dogs alerted on her purse and in her garage. That’s also when deputies spotted what appeared to be two crack pipes, other drug paraphernalia, and a bag of crystal meth. At first, Chockpoya admitted the drugs were hers, but then she changed her mind, saying she didn’t know who they belonged to.

That’s when deputies arrested Chockpoya for possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and child endangerment. The children did not belong to her and were released to the custody of their mother.

Chockpoya has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and her bond has been set for $5,000. At last check, she has not bonded out and remains in the Comanche County Detention Center. Her preliminary hearing is set for Feb. 27.

The mystery man who reported seeing a person in a locked stairwell at San Francisco General Hospital four days before a missing patient’s body was found there has come forward, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The man is a researcher at UCSF who works at San Francisco General, said spokeswoman Rachael Kagan. He contacted authorities last week after learning that police, sheriff’s deputies and hospital officials were eager to talk to whoever had reported to a nursing supervisor Oct. 4 that he had seen a prone person on a stairwell landing.

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“This man came forward on his own after seeing the flyer that the hospital circulated,” seeking help identifying the person who had reported the stairwell find before hurrying away, Kagan said.

Investigators believe his information could be important in establishing a timeline in the case of Lynne Spalding, the 57-year-old patient who disappeared from her room on the fifth floor of San Francisco General on Sept. 21. No one reported seeing her until her body was discovered in the stairwell Oct. 8.

The medical examiner has not released a cause of death, but Spalding’s family says police have told them she was not the victim of a homicide.

Kagan said the UCSF researcher, whose name has not been released, has been interviewed by police. She said she did not know what he told them, and it is not clear whether the person the researcher reported seeing on the stairwell was Spalding.

Spalding was being treated for a bladder infection and was expected to be released the day she vanished. Sheriff’s deputies who provide security at the hospital did not at first consider her to be a missing person and never conducted a complete search of the hospital’s stairwells, including the one where her body was eventually found, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi said this month.

On Oct. 4, a staff member heard banging on the fifth-floor door of the locked stairwell, Mirkarimi said. The staff member opened the door and let in a man wearing a hospital name tag, who quickly went by and said he had seen a prone person between the third and fourth floors, Mirkarimi said.

A nursing supervisor notified the Sheriff’s Department, asking that deputies search the area. Mirkarimi said the sheriff’s communications staff had received the report of a person in the stairwell and had responded, “We’ll take care of it.”

But “there is no indication that anyone was dispatched to that stairwell,” Mirkarimi said.

Harry Stern, an attorney for sheriff’s deputies involved in the Spalding case, had expressed skepticism that the stairwell sighting was genuine. On Tuesday, he said he still found it “extremely hard to believe that – as the initial report indicated – a medical professional stepped over a presumably dead body … and didn’t stick around.”

Spalding’s body was found Oct. 8 by a building engineer conducting a routine inspection of the locked stairwell’s door alarms.

Nearly two and a half weeks have passed since Tommie Lowery disappeared, and his daughter is demanding answers from the home where he vanished from.

“A person just does not just disappear off the face of the earth and nobody see’s anything,” said Tammy Johnson.

Lowery, who suffers from dementia and other medical conditions, had been living in the house located on Country Walk Drive in Spring for more than a month.

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Lowery’s daughter rented the 68-year-old a room in what she believed was some kind of an assisted living facility.

“This place guaranteed me his safety and his security,” she added. “And that’s what I wanted for my father.”

But about two and a half weeks ago, he simply vanished from the home and he’s been missing ever since.

“My greatest fear is never finding my father,” said Johnson. “That’s my greatest fear.”

Johnson has hung up flyers. Volunteers have searched. Detectives with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are working the case and the clock.

“The longer he’s gone, the longer he’s without his medicine,” said Sgt. Doug Thomas. “We’re trying to get him back to the family so we can get him back on his medication.”

According to the property owner, the house provides transitional housing and is not an assisted living facility. The owner said tenants are free to come and go as they please. But Lowery’s daughter provided KHOU 11 News with a copy of the contract she claimed to have signed, which seemed to state that her father was not to be left alone.

“It’s very unprofessional and I’m very angry,” she added.

Johnson also said that she was determined to find her dad.

“I will never give up.”

The man at the center of a missing persons report has been found.

Police say 48-year-old Patrick Gallagher was located Tuesday.  He’s currently being held in the Montgomery County Jail on charges of public nudity and public intoxication.

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Gallagher’s reported him missing on November 15.  Gallagher was last heard from on the evening of November 11 when he spoke to a family member over the phone.

Afterward, IMPD was called to Gallagher’s home regarding trouble with two homeless people who Gallagher had allowed to stay at his home.  Neither Gallagher nor the homeless people were found at the home.

Gallagher was described as a “severe alcoholic.”  However, details on his arrest were not released.

Georgetown Police are investigating after an armed robbery Tuesday afternoon at a Cash Express store.

The incident happened at about 2 p.m. at the store, located on Paris Pike. The suspect is a white male, approximately 5’8, wearing a black hoodie, blue jeans and gray or dark colored tennis shoes.

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If you have any information, please call (502) 863-7820.

No injuries were reported and it’s unclear how much money the suspect got away with.