Updated July 5, 2019

Members of the Columbia Police Department were busy July 4th searching for a missing juvenile

Early Thursday morning department explained that officers were searching for 14-year-old Alexa Rae Seals.

Seals was last seen wearing a black shirt with gray writing and blue jeans.

The Columbia Police Department requests that anyone with information regarding Seals and her possible location to come forward and contact the department.

There are more than 70 missing children recorded in Tennessee state records each year. More than 60 percent of those children are girls.

Lawrenceburg teenager Ashley Clanton is still missing, police say.

Clanton was first reported missing in Lawrence County on Jan. 16. The 17-year-old Clanton is identified by photographs as a Caucasian girl with brown hair and blue eyes. She was described as standing at 5 feet, one inch tall and weighing approximately 125 pounds.

 Police say tips have been called claiming the teenager was seen in Columbia, Giles County and in Alabama.

“She is still missing at this time,” Haywood said.

Clanton has been placed on a national listing of missing children from the National Center of Exploited and Missing Children.