Anchorage

Anchorage police find missing 15-year-old

Update, 8:45 a.m.: In a bulletin Tuesday morning, Anchorage police write that Edwards has been located "and is well."

Original story: Anchorage police are asking the public's help in locating a teen who went missing from East High School Monday.

Cody Edwards, who is 15 and suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, was last seen at East High Monday afternoon, the Anchorage Police Department said in an early Tuesday morning bulletin. He was supposed to take a cab home, police said, but never got into a cab.

He's described as between 5 feet 6 inches and 5 feet 8 inches in height and weighing about 110 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes and "slight facial hair," police wrote. He was wearing a black coat, a black t-shirt, jeans, and neon blue shoes with neon yellow laces when he was last seen.

Police ask anyone with information on Edwards' whereabouts to contact them immediately.

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