Wash. doctor missing in Ukraine

The disappearance of Jay Sloop, a 77-year-old retired doctor from Washington State who went missing in Ukraine May 14, 2013, has been classified as a criminal case, according to Sloop's family and officials from his church, reported the Yakima Herald-Republic. The paper said Sloop disappeared after leaving a church compound in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, to go for a stroll. He was reportedly in Ukraine to establish a lifestyle center with other medical professionals for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Jay Wintermeyer, a spokesman for the church, told the Herald-Republic that police in Kiev have officially classified Sloop's disappearance as a criminal case.