AMBER Alerts exist because a Texas family lost their daughter- and other families shouldn’t have to. So the next time an alert interrupts your day, remember: it’s part of a Texas-born system designed ...

January 13 is National AMBER Alert Day, and many may not realize the first statewide AMBER Alert issued in Texas originated right here in Abilene. Just two days after the Texas State AMBER Plan was ...

Thirty years after the abduction and killing of Amber Hagerman in Arlington led to the creation of the nation’s first AMBER Alert, the emergency system named in her honor has grown into a statewide ...

Thirty years ago today, a young girl disappeared not far from her home in Arlington, Texas. Her tragic story would result in a nationwide network of missing child alert systems that would be named for ...

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