Ill Benton boy receives send-off before weeklong dream trip

Monday, June 30, 2014

BENTON, Mo. -- When 11-year-old Keaton Fitzgerald stepped out of the Scott County Sheriff's Department police car Sunday at Benton City Park, he tried to play it off like it was no big deal, that this was an everyday occurrence for the sixth-grader.

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