Missing teen is heading back to N.H.

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. -- Despite the shoplifting charge she faces when she gets home, relatives of a Goffstown teenager were in high spirits yesterday, one day after her five-month disappearance ended with her arrest in Florida.

``We're elated. This is pure jubilation," Laura Mackenzie's father, Bill, said at a news conference in Goffstown. ``Our prayers have been answered."

In Florida, Laurie Mackenzie met with her mother and waived extradition on the shoplifting charge, a felony involving more than $900 worth of items.