Robert A. Cronkleton

Well searched as part of missing baby case

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City firefighters searched a well behind a vacant home Tuesday in connection with the case of missing baby Lisa Irwin, who was born 11 months ago Tuesday.

After lowering firefighters into the well twice and finding nothing, they requested help draining about 10 feet of water from the well, which authorities described as being 30 to 40 feet deep and about 3 feet wide. Then they lowered a firefighter for the third time, just to make sure no cellphones or other evidence sat at the bottom.

They found nothing, said Capt. Steve Young, a police spokesman.

The parents of missing 10-month old Lisa Irwin, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, speak during a news conference in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 5, 2011. The parents made a tearful plea for the child's safe return Wednesday, nearly two days after she disappeared, begging her abductor to drop her off someplace safe. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Mike Ransdell)

Parents plead for infant's return

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- As authorities continued to pick through wooded areas and rap on doors Wednesday, the parents of missing infant Lisa Irwin made an emotional plea for her safe return.

Missouri leads nation in meth lab seizures

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Highway Patrol has reported that methamphetamine laboratory seizures jumped 10 percent last year.

The highway patrol said there were 1,960 seizures in Missouri in 2010, up from 1,774 in 2009.

"Once again, Missouri has the unfortunate distinction of being the leader in meth lab seizures, despite the hard work of the state's drug task forces and all law enforcement," Col.

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