Paula Lopez, a popular TV news anchor for KEYT-TV, the ABC News affiliate in Santa Barbara, California, was back safe at home Thursday after a mysterious missing persons scare, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting.

"At around 5:30 p.m. tonight, her family members called Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Public Safety Dispatch to report that she is home and safe," the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office said in a prepared statement late Wednesday. "When deputies responded to her residence they confirmed she was there and no longer missing."