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Women in Business give 10K to Amber Alert program

Last updated Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 11:12pm

FARMINGTON -- Women in Business recently presented a $10,000 check to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to benefit the Utah Amber Alert Program.

The businesswomen have now raised more than $25,000 for the child abduction alert plan, according to a news release. As tax dollars are not used to support the Amber Alert, Women in Business has raised the entire budget for the program during the past four years.

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Amber Alert ends after 10-year-old W. Valley girl found safe

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 8:45am

WEST VALLEY CITY -- Police have canceled an Amber Alert for a 10-year-old girl after she was found safe.

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Amber Alert issued for 11-year-old W. Valley girl

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 6:13pm

WEST VALLEY CITY -- West Valley City police have issued an Amber Alert for an 11-year-old girl who is presumed kidnapped.

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Authorities searching for Idaho woman and 3 kids

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 11:18am

PHOENIX -- Authorities say an Idaho woman who allegedly took her three children in a custody squabble may be in the Phoenix metropolitan area on the way to Mexico.

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Ogden police: Social media key in finding runaways

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 6:24am

OGDEN -- Police in Ogden no longer think about placing photos on milk cartons to find juveniles who are missing or have run away.

Instead, they use social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to help determine their whereabouts, said Lt. Scott Conley, head of the Ogden Police Department's Selective Enforcement Division.

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Subject of Idaho Amber Alert found safe in Utah

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 12:37pm

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- Bonneville County authorities say a 10-year-old Idaho Falls girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe.

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Amber Alert girl, 9, found dead; neighbor in custody

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 9:36am

SOUDERTON, Pa. -- A 9-year-old girl who disappeared while playing outside her suburban Philadelphia apartment complex has been found dead, and a man who lives nearby is in custody.

State police issued an Amber Alert on Monday night for Skylar Kauffman when she didn't come home for dinner after playing with her friends in a parking lot in the small town of Souderton.

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Critics debate effectiveness of Amber Alerts

Selwyn Crawford, The Dallas Morning News, Wendy Hundley

Last updated Monday, January 17, 2011 - 10:40am

DALLAS -- Fifteen years ago, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted as she rode her bicycle in the parking lot of an abandoned east Arlington grocery store. She was murdered.

Police say they are no closer to making an arrest than they were in 1996, but Amber's legacy survives in the Amber Alert system operating in some form in 50 states and several foreign countries.

The notification system has been credited with saving 500 abducted or missing children since its inception and is widely praised by experts as an essential tool for quickly moving to rescue endangered children.

But some critics say the system isn't nearly as prolific at saving the lives of children who are in real danger -- primarily youngsters abducted by homicidal sexual predators who don't know their victims -- as its supporters claim.

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