FBI joins search for missing 6-year-old boy with autism in North Carolina

GASTONIA, North Carolina -- The FBI is assisting North Carolina officials in the search for a missing 6-year-old boy with special needs.Maddox Ritch, who has autism and is described as nonverbal, was last seen at Rankin Lake Park on Saturday afternoon with his father and another adult.According to a spokesperson with the city of Gastonia, the boy's parents said he took off running and then disappeared."They were walking around the lake," Rachel Bagley, Gastonia spokeswoman, told WSOC. "They got