Reporter finds two missing boys while covering their disappearance

A newspaper reporter found two missing boys — who it turns out were just skipping school — after he was sent to cover their disappearance. Shawn Annarelli says the brothers, aged seven and nine, were supposed to board a bus to their charter school in central Pennsylvania on Tuesday morning but didn’t. State College police posted their picture on Twitter about an hour later and Annarelli began poking around in some bushes near a playground after he heard some noise. The Centre Daily Times reporter found the boys hiding under a blueberry bush about 90 minutes into the search. He called 911 after hearing one of the boys say, “They found us.”

I was about 15 yards away from the rest of the media. I was going to talk to a police officer… when I hear two voices and see some rustling leafs.

Reporter Shawn Annarelli.

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