Bolivar News

Mary Mayes, 65, prepares to face a judge on charges she helped her son in the kidnapping of two young Tennessee girls on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 in Bolivar, Tenn.

Mary Mayes now faces charges of especially aggravated kidnapping for her role in the murder and abduction of Jo Ann Bain and her daughters.

Friday in Bolivar, Tennessee, whereA the Bain girls attended school, folks are riding an emotional roller-coaster of prayer and thanksgiving.

The story of the kidnapped Bain girls is bitter sweet. Most are happy that Alexandria and Kyliyah are home safe and sound.

' A Mississippi man killed a Tennessee mother and her teenage daughter so he could abduct two young sisters who are still missing, according court documents filed Wednesday, and a relative says the suspect thought the two younger girls might be his daughters.

Leah A Margaret A Strope and Becca Fulghum played sports alongside 14 year Adrienne Bain, the girl murdered and buried alongside her mother in this sordid tale playing out in hardeman county.

TODAY'S World in Pictures features photographs of police using a water cannon to disperse Kashmiri government employees protesting at arrears in their salaries in Srinagar, India.

Court officials in Tennessee say first-degree murder charges have been filed against the wife of a man suspected of killing a woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls.

This undated photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety shows Kyliyah Bain, 8. Kyliyah and her sisters Alexandria, 12, Adrienne, 14, and their mother, Jo Ann Bain, may be in "extreme danger" after they were abducted in Tennessee and last seen in Mississippi, but they could be in another state where their suspected kidnapper has ... (more)

Residents started early, signing messages to the Bain family, tying them to balloons and sending them up in the air.

Stephanie Gertz, right, holds a Ipad displaying the Bain family as hundreds gather during a vigil for missing sisters, Alexandria, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, in between games at the Dixie Youth Fields in Bolivar, Tenn., as an intensive manhunt for their suspected kidnapper Adam Mayes continues, Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

As the hunt continued for a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter before fleeing with her two younger girls, his wife and mother were charged Tuesday in connection with the abduction, authorities said.

It had been there a few days. When she clicked on it, the message informed her that she was the sole recipient of a prestigious summer internship offered through the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Society of Neuroscience's and "I was in the library, so I was trying not to be loud, but I was really excited," Nelms said.

BOLIVAR, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says three Hardeman County girls who have not been seen for a week have been with a man in Mississippi.

The man who found the SUV belonging to a still missing Hardeman County mom and her daughters said he thought it was just out of gas until he watched News Channel 3. The Bain family's SUV was found on a road east of Bolivar, TN three days after the mother and three daughters were reported missing.