A couple last seen Jan. 26 were found Wednesday by a county road worker near a canyon in southwestern Utah.

Thomas and Tamitha Garner were with their truck about 60 miles west of Cedar City by a county worker who was plowing the road, Iron County Sheriff Mark Gower told The Salt Lake Tribune.

The Kearns couple had gone on a weekend trip to photograph wild horses on Jan. 24. They were last seen two days later in Nevada. Search and rescue crews had been searching a vast area for any sign of the couple.

Gower says they were stranded, but stayed with their vehicle and survived the ordeal.

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Police still have no leads in the search for Tamitha and Thomas Garner. The northern Utah couple was last seen leaving Panaca, Nevada on Saturday. Police are still treating this as a missing persons case.

The pair were exploring the area in search of wild horses.

Members of the Nevada, Utah and Colorado Civil Air Patrol searched the area around S.R. 319 on Thursday. Authorities employed several ground searchers, 3 Civil Air Patrol planes and a Nevada Air National Guard helicopter.

On a tip, authorities searched an area called two kilns, located north of S.R. 319 about 10 miles west of the Utah/Nevada border.

They found no sign of the couple.

The Garners were last seen driving a grey, 1999 Dodge Dakota truck with Utah plate, #793URF. The truck has a scorpion sticker in the back window. They may have a chocolate colored dog with them.

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Some significant developments in Reno in the investigation of the suspected kidnapping of Brianna Denison.

Policy say DNA evidence has now linked her case to two other attacks late last year on women in the same neighborhood near the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.

In addition, they say they’re investigating another 2007 case that could be related. That one involves the alleged rape of a woman who came forward for the first time yesterday to say she was assaulted at gunpoint in October in a parking garage just south of the Lawlor Events Center.

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The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a missing couple from Utah.

Thomas and Tamitha Garner were last seen in the Panaca area on Saturday. The Garners were last seen on surveillance video heading toward Utah on SR-319.

Police say they are presumed missing in the area east of Panaca on the Utah/Nevada border. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the Civil Air Patrol and the Nevada Air National Guard began searching the area on Tuesday.

Weather conditions are hampering the ground search efforts due to snow, ice, terrain and frigid night time temperatures. Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee says the search will continue until further notice.

The pair were in a grey, 1999 Dodge Dakota truck with Utah plates 793 URF. The truck has a scorpion sticker in the back window. They also had their chocolate colored dog.

Police do not suspect foul play but are asking anyone who has seen the Garners to call the Lincoln County Sheriffs Office at 775-962-5151.

With no suspects and little evidence, police asked the public for patience as they investigate the suspected kidnapping of a young Reno woman and appealed to friends and neighbors again Friday to offer up even the most “inconsequential” information they may have about her mysterious disappearance six days ago.

Crime lab technicians have yet to determine whether a stain on a pillow at the suspected crime scene is the blood of Brianna Denison, Reno police spokesman Steve Frady said Friday.

The 19-year-old college student hasn’t been seen since about 4 a.m. on Sunday when she went to sleep on a couch at the home of a friend a few blocks from the University of Nevada, Reno, campus, about a half-mile from the downtown casino district.

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With few leads and little evidence, frustration is mounting in the search for Brianna Denison four days after the 19-year-old college student mysteriously vanished from Reno.

Police questioned a man who gave a ride home to Denison’s friend the night Denison disappeared from the home near the UNR campus.

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Police questioned a man about a missing 19-year-old college student but said he is not a suspect in her disappearance.

The man was interviewed because he had given a ride home to Brianna Denison’s friend the night Denison mysteriously vanished, police said.

“We have spoken with the person who was driving the Suburban that we were looking for originally and he is not involved in the case,” Ron Holladay, a Reno police commander, said Wednesday in an interview with CBS’ “Early Show.”

Denison was last seen at 4 a.m. Sunday. Police said she was sleeping on a couch near an unlocked glass door after a night of partying. When her friends awoke later that morning, she was gone — but her clothes, purse and cell phone were left behind.

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The FBI has joined the effort to find a college student believed to have been kidnapped from Reno.  

19-year-old Brianna Denison was last seen around 4 a.m. Sunday, when she fell asleep on her friend’s couch after a night of partying.

Police say drops of blood were found where she was sleeping and the door to the home was unlocked.

Denison was last seen around 4 a.m. Sunday. A family member says Denison had been out with friends, and went to a friend’s house to sleep on the sofa. A few hours later, Brianna had vanished.

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Update

The boys have been located. They are safe and with their families.

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Henderson police are looking for a woman who did not return home from a New Year’s Eve party.

Twenty-year-old Mariela Moreno was last seen by her family as she left for a party on Paradise road. Her boyfriend told police he dropped off Moreno at her home around 4:30 a.m. but did not watch her go inside the home.

Moreno is described as Hispanic, 5 ‘ 7 ” tall, weighing around 120 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Henderson Police at (702)267-5000 or Crimestoppers at 385-5555.