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Virginia police issued a statewide alert on Monday for a missing high school football coach, who vanished in the midst of a law enforcement probe and his undefeated team's playoff run, officials said.

Travis Turner, the 46-year-old head coach of the Union High School Bears from Big Stone Gap, went missing on Thursday, according to a Virginia State Police posting .

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The 6-foot-3, 260-pound man was last seen in Wise County, in the far southwest corner of the commonwealth, wearing a gray sweatshirt, sweatpants and glasses, police said.

Search teams, with the help of dogs and drones, were concentrating efforts Monday around the town of Appalachia, where Turner lives, s

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