A Connecticut woman is charged Tuesday with risk of injury to a minor for allegedly leaving her 15-month-old grandson unattended in her home while taking her dog on an errand. Police say Loretta McGill-White, 48, left the toddler unattended in a crib. She did not return home until about 40 minutes after police and state child welfare officials arrived at her home.

Authorities have found a missing 12-year-old North Carolina girl who reportedly ran away last week and was suspected of traveling with a convicted sex offender. Jodie Collie was recovered by Des Moines police at a bus station following a phone call she made to her grandfather, who in turn notified the FBI, leading local authorities to her location. Officials say Collie was alone and unharmed. The girl's mother, Kim Baker says, "The hugest weight has been lifted off my shoulders. All the prayers I've been praying have been answered. She's safe and she'll be back soon. I think we'll all be fighting to see who hugs her first. I don't think I'll let her go for a couple of hours. "

It looks like Victoria Gotti has inherited some of her father's evasive techniques. She denies on Wednesday that she lied about having breast cancer but acknowledges her diagnosis showed she had "precancerous cells. "

With tourists from around the world basking in the sun on its southern beaches, Thailand is calling in a revered Chinese sea goddess to ward off the restive spirits of the thousands who died in last year's tsunami disaster. A statue of Godmother Ruby, known as Mazu in Chinese, will be brought to the Thai island and tourist resort of Phuket from the Chinese coastal province of Fujian next month for ghost-clearing rites, according to Suwalai Pinpradab of the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

Ernest Demar Boyd, 32, has been charged with breaking into a woman's house and falling asleep in her bed. The robber/burglar broke into the home of the Arnold, Pennsylvania woman and fell asleep on her bed.