That's all it took for 9-year-old Amber Hagerman to vanish. Her heartbreaking, unsolved case inspired the creation of an emergency response system for abducted children, one we still rely on today.

A 10-year-old boy who went missing last week in Boyle Heights has been located, police said Thursday. Ian Moreno had been the subject of an Amber Alert after he was last seen around 2 p.m. on Oct. 13 ...

UNDATED, July 21 - Since it came on-line June 1, Alabama's Amber Alert system has been put to the test. Last month, Alabama's Department of Public Safety used the system for the first time. They ...

After this week's AMBER Alert for 7-month-old Emma Kennedy who was ultimately found safe in Randolph County, WFMY News 2 wanted to do some digging in the history of AMBER Alerts. What is an AMBER ...

The AMBER alert system began in Texas in the mid 1990s and has grown from small town partnership to satellite system. According to the Office of Justice program website AMBER stands for America’s ...

FLORIDA – Florida’s new spectrum alert system took effect July 1, bringing a targeted, potentially life-saving tool to help locate missing children with autism spectrum disorder. The alert system is ...

Today marked the 30th anniversary of the Amber Alert system — the emergency notifications seen on our phones and heard on broadcasts when a child is in imminent danger. All these years later, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GAINES TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The family of a Caledonia-area boy who was killed by his father is thanking legislators in Lansing ...

Spokane County Sheriff, Ozzie Knezovich, credits the Amber Alert System and his deputies for an arrest made on Tuesday night. Deputies say 18-year old Kyle Arellano kidnapped 3-year-old Lupita Tellez ...

Authorities Tuesday were seeking a man wanted in the killing of his wife and the abduction of his 5-year-old daughter, who was last seen in Los Angeles. An Amber Alert was in effect Tuesday in Los ...