Texas DPS marks National AMBER Alert Day to highlight the program’s 30-year history and its critical role in recovering abducted children. The system coordinates state and federal resources to ...

A crime that forever changed how this country treats cases of kidnapping happened 30 years ago this week. The tragic kidnapping and death of a little girl in Arlington in 1996 led to the AMBER Alert: ...

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 ...

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 ...

In February 2026, numerous posts claimed the sister of convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell founded and ran Amber Alerts, an alerts system in the United States used to inform the general public ...

Amber Hagerman's mother Donna Williams wore a button of her daughter to a press conference at the abduction site in E. Arlington, Texas, Wednesday, January 13, 2021. On the 25th anniversary of Amber ...