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Missing Ore. boy search focuses on Portland area - Boston.com

Missing Ore. boy search focuses on Portland area - Boston.com

Missing Ore. boy search focuses on Portland area

In this undated photo provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, Kyron Horman is seen. The FBI has joined an expanding search for Horman, a 7-year-old Oregon boy who vanished after his stepmother left him at his Portland elementary school on Friday morning.In this undated photo provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, Kyron Horman is seen. The FBI has joined an expanding search for Horman, a 7-year-old Oregon boy who vanished after his stepmother left him at his Portland elementary school on Friday morning. (AP Photo/Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)
By Nigel Duara
Associated Press Writer / June 8, 2010
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PORTLAND, Ore.—Investigators have limited the search for a missing 7-year-old Portland boy to the city's metro area, despite tips from as far away as Washington state, a sheriff's spokesman said Tuesday.
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Kyron Horman disappeared Friday after a science fair at the rural Skyline Elementary School.
Kyron is still being considered a "missing endangered child," Multnomah County sheriff's Capt. Jason Gates said at a news conference, adding the disappearance is not being investigated as a criminal matter.
"We're not prepared to call it a criminal investigation at this point," Gates said. It would be considered a crime "when we have elements or specific information about this case that would lead us in a direction where there are crimes that can be defined."
The search has been difficult in the dense, hilly terrain near the school. At least


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