AMBER HAGERMAN CHILD PROTECTION ACT

An Amber Alert was issued for a 2 year old boy who was sleeping in the backseat of a car stolen in Laurelton. It was nearly 1 a.m. yesterday and three police officers had searched nearly two more...

A search was on the night of April 24 for three masked kidnappers who brazenly abducted 13 year old Mara Downes, a Catholic schoolgirl, in front of her Rockalnd County house, then abandoned her more...

Police issued a statewide "Amber Alert" yesterday for 10 year old Nicole Timmons. She was reported missing from her home after 7 a.m. when her mother did not find her in her room. Nicole is 4 more...

Governor Pataki quietly signed into law legislation expanding the state's Amber Alert program to not only broadcast information about kidnappings on television, radio and road signs, but also on more...

Amber's Law, named for 9 year old Amber Hagerman of Texas, imposes a life-without-parole sentence for the murder of a child under 14 during a sexual assault, imposed on repeat offenders. The more...

News of missing children will speed to the public over radio, TV and electronic highway signs in more states under the Amber Alert legislation signed yesterday by President George W. Bush. more...

New York state's Amber Alert system was activated for the first time on March 7, 2003, at the request of New Jersey police who were looking for a kidnapped girl. Angel M. Rivera, 26, is accused more...

Joseph P. Smith, 39, has been charged with 11 year old Carlie Brucia's murder. He is the tattooed man in a mechanic's shirt who was seen in a car wash surveillance video leading Carlie away by more...

Action in the first hours after a child's abduction often determines his or her survival, so Suffolk County wants to bolster the chances of successful recovery through a program that sends more...

A Los Angeles tow truck driver who took in a stranded motorist and 12 year old girl who was with him, tipped off police that the girl might have been kidnapped.

Marcelino Benites, 44, more...