UPDATE (9/24/18 8:15 a.m.) The Bellmead Police Department confirmed 11-year-old Katelynn Marie Maldonado has been found safe. Katelyn was reportedly located in her neighborhood shortly after the Amber alert was issued.
No other information has been released at this time...
15-year-old Heaven Ray Cox, whose picture has been circulating social media all week in an attempt to locate her, has been found safe, according to her mother.
Since January 1 of this year, 117 children have gone missing across Texas and have still not been found, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
In March, 2016, Lufkin Police requested the public's help in locating a man that had been reported missing by his father. On March 2nd, Jason Stevens, 36, was last seen leaving his job at Ross Motorsports on North Timberland Drive around 10:40 a.m.
According to a press release issued Thursday afternoon by the Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Department, authorities have identified the human remains that were discovered on March 13th north of Cushing in Northwest Nacogdoches County.