The Amber (or AMBER) alert system is used to issue wide-ranging announcements in the case of child abductions, tapping into TVs, public radio stations, and indeed smartphones to apprise the public of the latest developments.

A dispatcher is speaking out about a frantic search for a young girl abducted in southeast Ohio that ended in a confrontation that left her father dead.

A Jefferson County man is dead after an Ohio Amber Alert led police to Medina County Monday evening, where he was shot and killed near Medina, Ohio. According to the Medina County Sheriff’s Office, the Brunswick Division of Police located an Ohio Amber Alert suspect on Interstate 71 at around 8