USA TODAY examined the disparities in how audiences respond to social media posts about missing children and found not all cases get the same level of engagement. Using 375 video posts from the ...

This story originally aired on Oct. 12, 2024. It was updated on Jan. 7 and June 7, 2025. On Highway 93, en route to Missoula, it's hard to miss this billboard and Jermain Charlo's haunting gaze.

Oklahoma has the largest percentage of missing people in America, with Louisiana and Arkansas also above average, the latest federal statistics show. The data also points to wide regional variation, ...

A family man from Wisconsin. A spirited artist from Hawaii. An Ivy League graduate from Maryland. At face value, Ryan Borgwardt, Hannah Kobayashi and Luigi Mangione lead distinct lives and come from ...

Children are disappearing from northern Ohio in record numbers, with more than 1,000 minors reported missing so far this year. More than 45 children have gone missing in the Cleveland-Akron area this ...

ST. LOUIS — The last time Paula Hill saw her daughter Shemika Cosey was more than 15 years ago. The 16-year-old was wearing blue jeans, a black long-sleeve shirt and a tan Old Navy coat. Though ...

Thousands of people are reported missing in the United States each year. And while not every missing person case will get widespread media coverage, the fight to locate them — whether alive or dead — ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Susanna Arroyo pulled up a picture on her phone. It was the most recent one she had of Seferino Ybarra: a driver’s license photo. Seferino Ybarra’s family searched for him for years.

It topped a 2004 letter to the editor written by Marcia Williams. Her letter read, in part: Please help me find my son, Terrance Williams. On Jan. 12, my son was driving to Naples from Bonita Springs.

Treva Lindsey is an associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at The Ohio State University and the author of America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice I ...

The federal government is trying to catch up with a crisis of missing Native American women. But no one is addressing the problems that arise when they’re found. Ashley, right, trying to wake up her ...