A Golden Alert has been issued for a missing 13-year-old female out of Laurel County.

Sheriff’s officials say that Makayla Marie Mayfield of Lily, Kentucky was last seen early Monday morning around 1 a.m. at her home on McNew Lane.  It is unknown where she is or where she may be headed.

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Mayfield is described as a white female, 5-feet-6-inches tall, weighing 135 pounds. She has brown shoulder length hair and  brown eyes. Her family was unable to provide a clothing description. Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of Makayla is asked to contact the Laurel County Sheriff’s office at 606-864-6600 or 606-878-7000.

Two people were wounded in a shooting at the graduation ceremonies at Augusta High School Sunday afternoon.

Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet confirms one person was taken to Wesley Medical Center in serious condition.  Another person was taken to a medical facility with less serious injuries.

Authorities say the shooting appeared to be accidental.

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Herzet said the incident occurred at about 2 p.m. at an outdoor facility during the high school’s commencement services.

A sign on a fence outside the football stadium where the graduation ceremonies occurred shows firearms are banned at the facility.

The father and son accused of luring a woman and her four teenage daughters to a Utah house and tying them up are both in custody in Wyoming.

Late Saturday night, law officers culminated a manhunt with the arrest of Dereck James “DJ” Harrison, 22, several hours after the surrender of his father, Flint Wayne Harrison, 51, the Sublette County Sheriff’s Office said.

The various charges the men face include aggravated kidnapping and possession of a controlled substance.

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Sublette County Sheriff’s Office said that shortly after 10 p.m. MDT, the younger Harrison was arrested without incident in the Half Moon Lake area of western Wyoming and booked into the county jail.

His father had turned himself in earlier in the day and had been helping authorities find his son, officials said.

The forested back country around the lake had been the focus of a daylong search after officials determined that the younger man was in the area, possibly armed with rifles with high-capacity magazines and knives. He had also made threats to law enforcement, the sheriff’s office said.

During the search, authorities evacuated a campground and urged area residents to stay inside.

The arrest came shortly after the department had announced that the search for the younger man was suspended for the night.

“Law enforcement officials who were manning the roadblock and patrolling the roadway, observed a male matching the description of Dereck, walking south towards the deputies,” the department said in a news release.

“This is an incredible end to a very stressful day,” Sheriff Stephen Haskell said.

Meanwhile, authorities said the woman and her daughters are recovering after the attack Tuesday in Centerville, Utah.

The men are accused of tying the mother and daughters up with zip ties. When the elder Harrison hit the woman with a baseball bat, the teens began to break their ties and try to escape, according to charging documents. In the struggle that followed, one girl slapped away a shotgun pointed at her throat and another grabbed the bat and hit the son, police said.

The victims managed to escape.

The father and son had been using methamphetamine heavily over several days and falsely believed the woman had reported them to authorities, police said.

The younger Harrison was a close friend of the woman’s family. He often visited the home for dinner or picked the girls up from school. The teens, aged 13 to 18, had known him for several years.

The Harrisons fled and were eventually picked up by someone who took them to Salt Lake City, where they spent Tuesday night in a hotel.

The elder Harrison is a registered sex offender. He surrendered in Pinedale for reasons still unknown to police. Investigators think the father and son had been in Wyoming since Thursday.

Several hours after a 4-year-old boy was reported missing at James Island County Park, rescue officials said they had recovered the body of a small child.

Charleston police say Duffy McLemore was reported missing around 4:45 p.m. He had last been seen in the Spray area. Park officials reported it to police about 30 minutes later.

His body was recovered in a pond just after 10 p.m.

McLemore was last seen wearing blue swimming trunks and blue and orange water shoes.

Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg thanked all the first responders who joined in the search of the park. He said the accidental loss of life is a tragedy for McLemore’s family and community.

Charleston police said the rescue operation had transitioned to supporting the family and first responders.

“This is such a tragedy for this family and the community. The family needs our support and prayers,” police said in a statement.

The Charleston Police Department, Charleston Fire Department, James Island Fire Department, Coast Guard, Charleston County Rescue, Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office and SLED participated in the search.

Columbia University student from Louisville hasn’t been seen since before Mother’s Day, according to multiple reports.

The Washington Post reported late Friday that 19-year-old Nayla Kidd was last seen studying on campus May 4.

Columbia released a statement about Kidd’s disappearance and friends and family have created a Facebook page and are trying to spread the message around social media.

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“Our community is deeply concerned whenever a student is missing,” the Columbia statement read. “The University is in contact with Nayla Kidd’s family and is cooperating with the New York Police Department. We are working together to locate Nayla and urge anyone with any information that would be helpful to contact Columbia Public Safety at 212-854-5555 or the NYPD 26th Precinct Detective Squad at 212-678-1351.”

Kidd’s mother, La Creis Kidd, is a professor at the University of Louisville. The two are very close, and the younger Kidd is described as being “loving and sweet-spirited,” according to the Post article.

The New York Post reported that Nayla Kidd graduated from the Thacher School, a prestigious college prep school in Southern California near Santa Barbara.