Avonte Oquendo

In the wake of the grim discovery of the remains of Queens autistic teen Avonte Oquendo, New York Senator Chuck Schumer is proposing a voluntary program in which autistic kids would be outfitted with tracking devices should they become lost...

Human remains found last week along the East River belong to an autistic teen who walked out of his school more than three months ago and vanished, the medical examiner's office said Tuesday.

New York City police are investigating whether a photo of a boy riding a subway train is that of an autistic boy missing for nearly a month.