ATHENS, Ga. -- Police in Athens say a 14-year-old girl has been arrested for threatening to set her family's apartment ablaze over a missing bottle of soda.

Police say the unidentified girl, who was already under house arrest, became enraged Wednesday when she opened the refrigerator and saw that her Mountain Dew was missing. Authorities say the girl began cursing at her stepfather, who told her to talk to her mother about it.

Authorities say the girl blew cigarette smoke in her mother's face and threatened to set their apartment on fire.

The girl's mother called police and Department of Juvenile Justice officials told police to charge the girl with making terroristic threats. She has been taken into custody by the Clarke County Sheriff's office.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - A University of Georgia student told police she was attacked by a woman who appeared dressed as a mime.

Police said the attack on West Broad Street Wednesday was stopped by a passerby.

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The Athens Banner-Herald said the man who was passing by chased after the suspect and held her until he was assisted by two state probation officers in the area. They said the suspect was wearing all black and that her face was painted white.

Athens-Clarke County Jail records show that 37-year-old Stephanie Christine Walker of Athens is facing a battery charge. The records do not indicate whether Walker has an attorney.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Like Rome, the gingerbread house at the Heirloom Cafe in Athens was not built in a day.

But it will only take seconds at 3 p.m. on Monday, Christmas Eve, to render the gingerbread house into nothing more than crumbs.

Pastry chefs Teri Manley-Taylor and Caroline Kuhn plan to toss the house across the restaurant's parking lot and watch it break into pieces. The house is a gingerbread model of the Heirloom Cafe.

The house has been sitting on a bar in the restaurant for two weeks.

It took the chefs two days to make the structure. Melted cough drops were used for panes of glass. Gum shaped the roof's shingles and Tootsie rolls and cookie crumbs were turned into planters