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Fifteen-year-old Emmanuel Gonzalez Garcia has the cognitive abilities of a 4 or 5-year-old, according to his mother.

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A 15-year-old Houston boy with autism, mistakenly placed in a federal facility for migrant children, urgently needs surgery ...

Gonzalez Garcia, who has autism, disappeared on Oct. 4 while his mother was selling fruit on the northwest side of Houston.

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Black widow spiders live in cool, dark places. What to know in Mississippi to keep them away from your home, avoid a bite.

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The mother of a 15-year-old boy with autism wants her son returned home to her after he went missing in Houston earlier this ...

Emmanuel Gonzalez Garcia, a 15-year-old with autism, was found by Houston Police and placed in the care of the Office of ...

Imagine avoiding the sidewalk in front of someone’s home for a month out of fear of catching a paralyzing virus. Then imagine being the family living in that house. For Douglas Dodd, his family in ...