BATCHTOWN, Ill. (AP) – A missing 1-year-old girl was found dead in a pond early Sunday after a search in rural southwestern Illinois. Calhoun County Sheriff Bill Heffington says the girl was reported missing from her home near Batchtown, which is about 47 miles north of St. Louis. A team of volunteers searched the rural brushy area with the help of police dogs and an Illinois State Police plane. The girl’s body was found hours later around 4:30 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her death is being investigated as drowning.