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Sunday, July 28, 2002 Smarts' lives revolve around the search Elizabeth's parents remain hopeful — and frustrated By Michael Janofsky Edward and Lois Smart had planned to be on vacation with their six children around now. Instead, they are at a news conference, appealing for people with helicopters to join the search for their daughter Elizabeth, 14, who was taken at gunpoint from her bedroom on June 5. Previous plans for a West Coast vacation are not in the picture for Lois and Ed Smart in what has seemed like a summer of child abductions across the nation. In what...

The Search For Elizabeth Smart Ongoing updates on the search for Elizabeth Smart, missing from her home in the early morning hours of June 5th. Update: The investigaton into the kidnapping of 14- year old Elizabeth Smart is in its 49th day, but the case may be getting some new help. A well known forensic artist has met with the younger sister of Elizabeth and that may give detectives new insight into the abductor. Go to story... It's been almost seven weeks since the abduction of Elizabeth Smart. And there are still more questions than answers for investigators, and her...

<p>Police were still looking Tuesday for a van spotted Thursday at a Lincoln, Neb., gas station with a girl inside matching Elizabeth Smart's description.</p> <p>No additional sightings of the van have been reported since it was spotted last week, Lincoln Police Sgt. Larry Barksdale said Tuesday morning.</p> <p>The 14-year-old blond teen has been missing almost six weeks since she was taken by gunpoint from her bedroom early June 5.</p>