Missing Manahawkin Teen Returns Home

A Stafford 15-year-old girl who left home Sunday and didn't return that night is back, safe and sound.Samantha Budd's disappearance in Manahawkin triggered a lengthy police search and urgent pleas from her father through social media.

Her relieved dad tells us that the episode began when the two had a disagreement. Samantha, he says, stayed with friends in several houses in the township before calling him Monday night and asking to return home.