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. "

A man is arrested after police say he told a 13-year-old girl to hand a bank teller a note threatening a holdup. Michael Lyons, 45, insists to police that he and a group of girls celebrating his daughter's birthday were simply playing a practical joke. A police report states the note read, "Give me all of your money, this is a stick up. "

An employee at the National Institute of Health is arrested Monday on charges of spreading false information and reporting a hoax under the Terrorism Prevention Act, after she threatened Florida tax assessors with anthrax following a lost claim for tax relief. According to her arrest warrant, Michelle Ledgister, 43, a quality control and assurance officer at the agency's Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, left a threatening voicemail message last month at the Broward County Property Appraiser's Office after she lost a claim for tax relief on property she owns in Parkland, Florida.

When you want something, just ask. Apparently that is the adage that applied to a bank robber in Chicago. Police say the robber sent a note through a vacuum tube to the teller at the drive-through window at a branch of Chicago's LaSalle Bank and the teller obliged, returning an undisclosed amount of cash.

When you want something, just ask. Apparently that is the adage that applied to a bank robber in Chicago. Police say the robber sent a note through a vacuum tube to the teller at the drive-through window at a branch of Chicago's LaSalle Bank and the teller obliged, returning an undisclosed amount of cash.