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Police Blotter: Missing Child Found In His Own Backyard
This weekend a 9-year-old boy went missing after attending church with his family but turned up in a familiar place. Read on for more.

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I began my writing career by contributing satirical pieces to various online publications before enrolling at the USC Annenberg School for Journalism in 2005. In 2006, I spent a summer working as a reporter at the Cape Times in Cape Town, South Africa. I graduated from the USC Annenberg School in 2007 with an M.A. in journalism and worked for the Los Angeles Times and NFL Network before signing on as a staff writer at the Pasadena Star-News in 2008. I left the Star-News in 2010 to become the editor of Monrovia Patch.
This weekend a 9-year-old boy went missing after attending church with his family but turned up in a familiar place. Read on for more.

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