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Lincoln County deputies find runaway teen

LINCOLNTON, N.C. — A teen girl who left her home in Denver has been found safe, deputies said.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said 14-year-old Cadence Lail told her mother she was going outside to play basketball.

Lail didn’t return inside her house on Catawba-Burris Road.

Deputies describe her as a white female with brown hair and brown eyes and is 5 feet 6 inches tall.

There is no clothing description, but she may have a black Niki bookbag.

Lail is a student at East Lincoln Middle School.

Around 3:30 p.m. Monday, deputies said Lail had been found.


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