According to CNN, Elizabeth Smart is alive:
Missing teenager Elizabeth Smart found alive in Salt Lake City suburb, police say.
According to MSNBC:
KSL-Salt Lake City and NBC News confirm that Elizabeth Smart, the missing Utah teen, is alive. She was found today in a restaurant in Sandee, Utah, with a sometime handyman for the Smart family.
There's a family in a lot less pain tonight. Now, let's find the thousands of other kids who go missing and don't make the evening news.