The national Amber alert program began in 1996 after the slaying of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman in Texas and has spread to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The national Amber Alert Symposium is this week in Tampa and included a candlelight vigil Tuesday. The program is designed to coordinate the efforts of law enforcement, transportation officials and the media. In the past three years, organizers said, there have been more than 50 cases in which the abductor heard about the Amber alert and released the child. ...more

October 28, 2009

Nearly all Amber Alert cases result in the child's safe return, an official with the national program said today. ...more

October 27, 2009

A 12-year-old Bradenton girl is recovering after she left home over the weekend and was raped by a man 34 years older than her, the girl's family said at a news conference this afternoon. ...more

March 30, 2009

An Amber Alert has been canceled for a 12-year-old girl Bradenton girl that left her house Saturday. ...more

March 29, 2009

Taina Lopez thought the 2-month-old girl in the Amber Alert resembled her newborn. ...more

March 28, 2009

Taina Lopez feels as if no one listened to her. ...more

March 27, 2009

A 2-month-old baby has been reunited with her parents more than 24 hours after a woman impersonating an immigration official took the child from her mother. ...more

March 24, 2009

PALATKA, Fla. - Investigators searching for a missing 5-year-old northeast Florida girl say they are looking into tips that the 17-year-old girlfriend of the child's father may not have been home when Haleigh Cummings vanished. ...more

February 18, 2009

An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing 5-year-old girl from Putnam County in northeast Florida. Haleigh Cummings was last seen at her home in Satsuma at 3 this morning, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

February 10, 2009

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has cancelled an Amber Alert issued earlier today for a 1-year-old boy missing from the Orlando area after the child was found safe. ...more

January 18, 2009