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California IN BRIEF : CONCOW : No Trace Found of Girl Lost in Creek

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Sheriff’s deputies and rescuers searched Concow Creek for a 6-year-old girl who was swept off a bicycle and into churning water while crossing a bridge on her way to school. Amanda Shelton disappeared into Concow Creek on Monday morning while riding on the handlebars of a bicycle over a partially submerged bridge in the Sierra Nevada foothills with a friend, James Strawn, 12. A massive search by the Butte County Search and Rescue Squad and sheriff’s deputies failed to turn up any sign of the girl.

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