Search Continues for Missing 4-Year-Old in Alabama

Search teams in rural Alabama continued scouring a heavily wooded area on Friday for four-year-old Johnathan Everett Boley, who vanished on New Year's Eve while visiting his father near Jasper.

The boy, known to family as John John, was last seen around 11:30 a.m. on December 31 in the 7000 block of Highway 195, just north of Jasper in Walker County, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. Authorities described him as a white child with blonde hair and blue eyes, standing about four feet tall and weighing 50 pounds. He was wearing a yellow Mickey Mouse shirt, black pants and Paw Patrol shoes at the time. The agency issued an emergency missing child alert, and a statewide lookout was broadcast over police radios.

Johnathan was playing outside with his six-year-old brother and their black Labrador retriever near the property's fence line when he disappeared, Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith said during press briefings. The older brother told investigators that Johnathan and the dog had gone past the fence, after which neither returned. The father, Jameson Kyle Boley, reported the boy missing around 12:30 p.m. The dog remains unaccounted for, and its last sighting on a...