Missing Boy Scout found alive in N.C.

McGRADY, N.C. (AP) — Park rangers were escorting a weak and dehydrated boy out of the rugged North Carolina mountains today, four days after a 12-year-old Boy Scout wandered away from his troop’s camp site, officials said.

“We have our missing Boy Scout,” National Park Service spokeswoman Tina White said.

A radio transmission from searchers about a mile and half from the camp site alert rangers to the news: “They have found Michael, he is OK and they are getting ready to walk out.”

White said she was confident the boy was Michael Auberry. The boy’s parents and rangers were on their way to meet the group, she said.

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