WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- More small U.S. businesses are facing evictions as insolvencies soared by 44 percent last year, a number experts say will likely keep rising in 2008.

BREVARD, N.C., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Skeletal remains found recently in North Carolina's Nantahala National Forest are those of missing hiker John Bryant, authorities said Monday.

DAWSONVILLE, Ga., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A drifter was sentenced to life in the Georgia state penitentiary after he confessed to abducting and killing a female hiker.

BLAIRSVILLE, Ga., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The man accused of killing a Georgia hiker also is the focus of an investigation in Florida probing the disappearance and death of a nurse.

BLAIRSVILLE, Ga., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A 24-year-old missing hiker whose body was found in a Georgia forest was bludgeoned to death and then had her head cut off, an autopsy revealed Tuesday.

BLAIRSVILLE, Ga., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Law enforcement agents in Georgia expanded their search for missing hiker Meredith Emerson as evidence emerged linking the case to an October disappearance.

BLAIRSVILLE, Ga., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A 61-year-old man has been charged with kidnapping in the disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker on Georgia's Blood Mountain.

CUMMING, Ga., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A man brought in for questioning about a missing hiker is not being cooperative, authorities in Georgia said Saturday.

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