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Somewhere, in the arms of a starry winter night, a little 9-year-old boy is resting. His mind is filled with the new and wonderful, led on to things he has always wanted to see, things that were always just beyond the fence. But behind him, just on the other side of the adventure, people are searching, praying, looking for him. For out in the wonderment, beneath the stars, Logan Mitcheltree is missing. The runners and the dreamers never understand what it is that makes us fear so for them; they only know that the world is a marvelous, moving...

UPDATED: 12:04 p.m. Crews in Lycoming County found the body of a child Tuesday morning. The discovery was made not far from where Logan Mitcheltree, 9, disappeared on Saturday afternoon. It is a sad ending to a massive search that involved hundreds of volunteers. The tragic discovery was made just after 8:00 a.m. by a Bureau of Forestry search member. He was setting up grid marks for the day's search. That worker caught a glimpse of something orange. It turned out to be a backpack near the body of a young boy. Investigators now believe the body is that of...

The search for 9-year-old Logan Mitcheltree continued Sunday in South Williams, but as of 11:30 p.m. officials had found no signs of the boy, despite hundreds of volunteers having combed every inch of the borough since he went missing Saturday. Logan, of 1195 Main St., was last seen running east at Market Street and Southern Avenue at around 5 p.m. Saturday, borough Police Chief Rexford Lowmiller said. He was wearing a long-sleeved gray shirt, blue jeans and brown slippers. He is 4 feet tall, weighs 55 pounds, has short, reddish-blond hair and dark brown eyes. The youth is autistic and...