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An American college student who is missing in France while studying abroad is a member of the conservative college student organization, TPUSA.

The disappearance of Ken DeLand while studying abroad in France has pointed to Europe's Schengen zone where travelers aren't required to present passports, identification.

Yanni Nikopoulos and Dale Jones are now on their way home after the boat they were sailing on was struck by lightning. 

07 April 2021 - 13:09 By Michael Sears Kwei Quarteys Sleep Well, My Lady is set around the murder of a famous Ghanaian fashion designer. Image: Supplied Published in the Big Thrill (01/04/2020) Last year, acclaimed author Kwei Quartey branched out from his celebrated police procedurals set in Ghana featuring Inspector Darko Dawson to start a new series around PI Emma Djan. The first book in the series, The Missing American, is a twisty page-turner, delving into the dark ...

Share The butler did it. Or in this case, the chauffeur. Well, at least that’s who the Ghana police pin it on when renowned fashion designer, Lady Araba, is found bludgeoned to death in her luxury villa in a gated estate in Trasacco Valley – the Beverly Hills of Accra. Don’t be fooled by the cosy-sounding set-up, though. This is no rehash of The No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Kwei Quartey’s second Emma Djan novel is dark detective fiction with a hint of noir and an authentic African fl...

Audrey Lane, the headstrong young heroine of Wedderburn’s high-powered follow-up to The Milk Chicken Bomb is obsessed with everything about the open road. At 20, Audrey gets her dream job driving a truck around the oil fields not far from Calgary, Alberta. Shortly after, she impulsively runs away from the job and the camp where she’s been staying, and ends up in a gritty Edmonton bar. She talks her way into a job as the driver for a bar band called the Lever Men, with none of them sober en...

Something terrible happened to both of them. >> they both disappeared. and neither of them contacted anybody. and the same story, both of them had personal belongings that were going to be sent to them. one-and-one is two. >> american bo icelar was the first to leave last fall. at the time, no one thought it was unusual, especially when they learned he sold his house to someone else in the community, wild bill. >> bill had this persona of ive got buckets of cash, i can pay for it outright. >> th...

>> reporter: but the horror wasnt over. as police continued searching bills property, they discovered another mound of disturbed dirt -- another shallow grave. and there, buried beneath more rubble, the body of bo icelar -- the other missing american. >> when they found the bodies, thats when//they realized that its not just people with suspicions and making accusations. its all -- its really happening. >> reporter: keith watched as authorities raided bills home. he says they found evidence of t...

Two americans vanished and their disappearances were thought to be linked and something terrible happened to both of them. >> they both disappeared. and neither of them contacted anybody. and the same story, both of them had personal belongings that were going to be sent to them. one-and-one is two. >> american bo icelar was the first to leave last fall. at the time, no one thought it was unusual, especially when they learned he sold his house to someone else in the community, wild bill. >> bill...

As police continued searching bills property, they discovered another mound of disturbed dirt -- another shallow grave. and there, buried beneath more rubble, the body of bo icelar -- the other missing american. >> when they found the bodies, thats when they realized that its not just people with suspicions and making accusations. its all -- its really happening. >> reporter: keith watched as authorities raided bills home. he says they found evidence of the ghastly crimes -- bos id, chers passpo...