TRENTON, Fla. (AP) - The mother of the 10-year-old girl held captive for three days today thanked the man who safely released her daughter. She said her daughter was ''doing great.''

LITTLE FALLS - The annual meeting of the Morrison County Historical Society will be Sunday, Sept. 24, at the VFW in Little Falls with social hour at 6 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m.

There soon could be an easier way for residents in the Brainerd lakes area to find information relating to the area on the Internet.

From San Diego, Salt Lake City and Stanton, Calif., the grim news reports suggest an epidemic of child abductions. Yet experts say kidnapping by strangers - the crime so dreaded by so many parents - has always been rare and is probably on the downswing.

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The wife of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh has filed for divorce and sought custody of the couple's two children.

The Crow Wing County Sheriff's Department will act as a satellite agency for the Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

Police believe an abduction attempt of an 8-year-old boy Tuesday afternoon in southeast Brainerd is connected to a Nov. 17 attempted abduction of a 10-year-old boy near the Brainerd Family YMCA.

NEW YORK - On a milk carton or poster, or flashed across a television screen, few images are more haunting than the photograph of a missing child.

ST. PAUL (AP) - All Julie Ann Thomas remembered about her mother was the woman's long, light blond hair and how she liked to wrap her face with it.

They might not be faster than a speedy cable modem, or even able to leap a row of computer terminals in a single bound. But their mission does sound a little like a job for a superhero.