Crime & Safety
Missing Local Girl Found
Heather Smith had been missing since Sunday morning, police said.

By Tim Jensen
A teenage girl missing since Sunday morning was found around 9:30 a.m. Monday.
Heather Smith of Ellington was discovered by a hiker in a wooded area of Soapstone Mountain. The hiker called 911, and an ambulance transported Smith to the Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford.
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Hundreds of volunteers had been searching for Smith since Sunday, when she crashed her car into a tree on Tree Top Road in Ellington and fled into the woods.
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