The Lexington girl who was missing on Saturday is now back home.

11-year-old Kya Mattox was found safe on Sunday. Lexington Police say she was found sometime after 3:00 Sunday afternoon and was unharmed.

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Kya hadn’t been seen since Saturday evening.

Two former police officers and another man are behind bars, accused of killing two massage parlor workers back in 1994.

18-year-old Gloria Ross and 22-year-old Candida Belt were found shot and stabbed to death at the New Life Massage Parlor in Christian County.

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Now, almost 20 years later, Ed Carter, Frank Black Junior and Leslie Duncan have been indicted. Carter and Black are charged with murder, Duncan with complicity to commit murder.

Carter was arrested at a hotel in Ohio, Black in Alabama and Duncan is already in jail serving time for evidence tampering in the investigation.

Two people were arrested and arraigned Friday on federal charges of identity theft, money laundering, government-property theft, and forging endorsements on treasury checks, the office of U.S. Atty. Peter Neronha announced.

Juliana Martins, 44, and Jairo Morales, 28, both of Providence, were arrested by Homeland Security Investigations agents, with assistance from agents with the Secret Service and the IRS Office of Investigation.

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“The defendants are alleged to have participated in a scheme to steal the identity of approximately 40 individuals, nearly all of whom appear to live in Puerto Rico, including their names, social security numbers and dates of birth,” a news release from Neronha’s office said.

“It is alleged that they used the information to fraudulently obtain federal tax checks totaling more than $277,300. The investigation revealed that the checks were allegedly deposited into various bank accounts and then cash withdrawn in an attempt to conceal the scheme.”

According to Neronha’s office, Martins and Morales were released on unsecured bond after appearing before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan.

The Davis Police Department is searching for a 56-year-old woman who was reported missing on Saturday.

Donna Louise Campbell was last seen Saturday at around 9:45 p.m. in the 1100 block of H St., Davis.

Campbell is described as a white female, standing about 5-feet, 5-inches tall, weighing 170 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.

Campbell was last seen wearing a gray shirt with a black jacket. Campbell may have a small dog with her as well.

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Campbell is considered an “At Risk” missing person due to a medical condition, which also makes it difficult for her to communicate. According to family, this type of behavior is out of character for Campbell.

Anyone with information of Campbell’s whereabouts is urged to contact the Davis Police Department at 747-5400.

Lexington Police say an 11-year-old girl is missing.

Kya Mattox was last seen in the Cardinal Valley area earlier Saturday wearing pink sweatpants, a black and white sweater vest and gray shoes with pink laces.

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She is about 5’4/135 pounds.

If you’ve seen Kya, call police.

Federal prosecutors say an Alabama man has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for his role in an identity theft and tax fraud scheme.

Authorities said Thursday that Kevin Jackson, of Montgomery, was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after his 102-month sentence and is ordered to pay more than $150,800 in restitution.

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Investigators have said they found a computer, three cellphones, at least 500 names and social security numbers of identity theft victims and at least 70 prepaid debit cards in Jackson’s storage locker.

Officials say Jackson has already pleaded guilty to access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

A Spring Lake man is accused of molesting a child, according to the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office.

Emmanuel L. Jones, 22, of Sweet Lane, was charged Thursday with first-degree rape of a child and first-degree sex offense with a child, according to an arrest report.

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Jones admitted having sex with the victim on numerous occasions, the report said.

The age of the victim was not given.

Bail was set at $100,000.

Fire and forest officials in Lincoln County are investigating a suspicious fire that torched several acres of a family’s land. It happened on South Fork Lake Road in Hustonville Friday afternoon.

By Friday night, a blanket of black soot covered the once vibrant forest bed.

“I believe that it was arson,” said Forest Ranger Glenn Smith. He added, “It had to be that somebody just set the woods on fire.”

But, who’s to blame? Casey Hamilton and her family want to know. “We got up here and I was like oh my gosh, that’s my land that’s on fire,” said Hamilton.

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The fire burned nearly five acres of her family’s property. It would have been worse, had two hunters not driven by. “We looked up the road and the land was on fire,” said Les Owens.

He and his friend called 911 for help, then tried to fight the flames themselves. “It was just low flames, mainly smoke, we tried to get to the top to keep it from getting up to the top,” said Owens.

About 20 minutes later both the Forestry and Fire Departments came to the rescue. Around two hours later, the fire was under control.

“If it had been different conditions it could have traveled a whole lot further and a whole lot faster,” said Smith.

Besides the fast efforts of emergency crews, the wet weather was the saving grace. It is also a reason Forestry officials are confident this was no accident. “There’s no way that anything else with this high humidity could cause a fire, other than a lighter or some type of flame,” said Smith.

It is a sad reality for people who live and hunt in the woods. Now everyone is counting their blessings because no one was hurt. “It could have been a serious situation, somebody losing their house or even dying, just fire is a dangerous thing,” said Owens.

Forestry officials said they have few leads in the case. As of Friday night it was not clear how much the damage would cost.

In early October, 27-year-old Kelly Dwyer told her father that she loved him. On October 11th, Kelly Dwyer went missing.

A month later, Kelly is still missing. Efforts to locate her continue, while her family and friends worry and her parents nightmare increases daily.

As the search continues, this young woman from Chicago who was last seen in Milwaukee risks becoming a statistic. Those statistics are frightening.

According to Crime Library, 2,300 Americans are reported missing every day. This figure includes adults and children. Six times as many people are reported missing now than were reported 25 years ago.

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Happy endings do not happen frequently enough. Three young girls who were abducted in Cleveland recently escaped after a decade of captivity. After being sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years, kidnapper Ariel Castro committed suicide in prison in September of 2013. The girls have been physically and mentally scarred, but they are alive.

Elizabeth Smart was another girl who was lucky enough to escape from her captor after several months in captivity.

Unfortunately, for every missing person who resurfaces, others are discovered only after it is too late. Such was the case with Chandra Levy. Levy, a 24-year-old intern in Washington, DC disappeared in May 2001. Authorities found her remains in May 2002. Seven years later, authorities arrested a suspect who was ultimately convicted in her murder.

For parents, the only thing worse than being predeceased by their child is not knowing what happened.

Authorities admit that missing persons become more difficult to find as time goes by. The first few days and weeks are critical. Leads go cold, and police departments are not blessed with unlimited budgets to pursue cases indefinitely. This leads to numerous unsolved missing persons cases every year.

Public participation is essential to increase chances of finding a missing person and maintaining pressure on authorities to continue to investigate. What one president once called “armies of compassion” need to be deployed as quickly as possible to support the effort to find the missing.

A small army of compassion is currently searching for Kelly Dwyer. Now is the time to give her a large army.

One objective is to track down leads and analyze evidence. Another task is to physically search for her.

In tracking down leads, researchers must separate facts from innuendo and focus on the main task: finding Kelly.

A 38-year-old man named Kris Zocco told police he was with Kelly Dwyer the night before she disappeared. Radio station WTMJ 620 in Wisconsin seems to have confirmed this information, reporting the existence of video surveillance of Kelly Dwyer entering Zocco’s condo building, the Park Lafayette, the night before she disappeared. There is no corresponding video showing her leaving.

Zocco told authorities he and Dwyer did cocaine in his apartment the night before her disappearance. Authorities then named Zocco as “a person of interest” in the case and arrested him on drug charges. After searching his apartment, authorities also arrested Zocco for possession of child pornography. He posted bail and was released on Nov. 6.

Authorities have not publicly commented on Zocco’s statements concerning Dwyer. The Milwaukee Police Department says the case remains open and authorities continue to investigate the possibility of foul play in her disappearance.

On November 13th, the Dwyer family put up a $10,000 reward for any information that leads directly Kelly’s whereabouts. Dwyer’s parents Tony and Maureen Dwyer, confirmed the reward amount.

Anybody with information or leads should call 414-935-7401 or 414-935-7405. The latter number is the Milwaukee Police Department’s Sensitive Crimes division.

For those wishing to aid in the search, Cheryl Burton of the Chicago ABC affiliate offered valuable location information. The Menomonee Falls landfill is where the trash from Zocco’s condo building is delivered. For those unfamiliar with Wisconsin, the neighborhood Dwyer was last spotted is located in the East side of Milwaukee.

For those who want to pray in person, there are plenty of churches in the Milwaukee area. Elmbrook Church is the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield is the largest church in Wisconsin, with weekly attendance of 7,000 people. Chabad of Milwaukee is where the city’s large Jewish contingent prays.

For those savvy with social media, the Kelly Dwyer Search Effort Facebook page is another avenue to share information. For those doing internet searches, disregard any information connected to a columnist who writes about basketball. That is a different Kelly Dwyer who is male, safe, and sound.

For anybody with an ounce of spare time, please help in the search for Kelly Dwyer and any other missing individuals.

Where there is love, there is always hope.