States with Silver Alert programs

Fifteen states had adopted Silver Alert programs as of April 30, and legislatures in several others were considering it.

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States consider 'Silver Alerts' for missing adults

Thomas Drew was 91, frail and suffering from dementia when, clad in a maroon sweat shirt and jeans, he disappeared from his home in rural northwest Connecticut.

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States disagree greatly on Amber Alert criteria

Authorities count hundreds of Amber Alert cases across the country as success stories when they start explaining why the media-friendly and politically popular bulletins are so important.

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Nearly 15K mine-resistant vehicles to be built

NUMBERS: About 7,000 of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles are in use in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least that many more are being built at a total cost of more than $22 billion.

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AP IMPACT: Fatal MRAP accidents prompt warnings

The towering trucks that give U.S. troops the best protection against roadside bombs and enemy bullets also make them vulnerable to routine hazards like sharp turns, rutted roads and rickety bridges.

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US plans storm warning system for East Africa

Cell phone users in East Africa will be able to receive warnings when a storm is brewing thanks to a low-cost alert system U.S. scientists are hoping to set up in the next few years, officials said Tuesday.

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Cell Phone Alerts Coming Soon

Federal regulators Wednesday approved a plan to create a nationwide emergency alert system using text messages delivered to cell phones.

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Students Slow to Embrace Text Alerts

The massacre at Virginia Tech last year sent colleges nationwide scrambling to improve how they get alerts to students during crises on campus. One solution: Text messages sent to cell phones.

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This should hardly be a surprise, but with Twitter being so popular lately, it was only a matter of time until it was targeted in patent infringement lawsuits. At the very least, the company suing them appears to (a) actually be based in Texas and (b) have a product on the market.

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The Treichel family of Cambridge didn't need convincing. They'd already fallen in love with Izzy, the Australian Shepherd they adopted in February. But what Izzy did at 3:00 Sunday morning has earned her family's gratitude for life.

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The latest crime-busting tool for Maine law enforcement agencies isn't a new type of weapon. It's the social-networking Internet sites Facebook and MySpace.

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LAKELAND -- Elijah is a 2-year-old cat that can sniff out sickness. The first thing he does when he meets someone new is smell their breath. He is focused on sniffing out diabetes.

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DAVIS COUNTY — It may take a village to raise a child, but sometimes it takes an entire nation to bring one home.

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Tel Aviv University researchers say they have developed a high-tech communication system to help stem the number of hospital-acquired infections.

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ABC News' Pierre Thomas says DHS officials are "quietly declaring" that the US is entering a "Period of Heightened Alert" because of the upcoming Olympics, the Democratic and Republican conventions, the November elections and the fact that a new president will be taking office in …

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I would like to know why there is no Amber Alert for this 10 year old girl who has been missing and last seen 05/22/08 @ 3:30pm. I think valuable time has passed by enough for someone to do anything even leave the state with her .

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The free service can automatically detect location using mobile devices' GPS capabilities or tap their Wi-Fi and get location from a database run by Skyhook Wireless.

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Members of Congress will be coming home to their districts Saturday, November 17, 2007 for a 2-week Thanksgiving break.

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Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.

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Particls helps you track your favourite sites, topics and apps by displaying desktop alerts for important changes.

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For the time, the Food and Drug Administration said it will test ingredients imported for use in the human food supply in connection with the nationwide pet food recall that has killed, by some estimates, thousands of pets.

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Excerpt: "A series of bomb threats and other security alerts rattled U.S. schools and universities Wednesday as nerves remained frayed from the massacre of 32 people by a disturbed, brooding student at Virginia Tech."

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Newsvine E-Mail Alerts: What Would You Like?

This is a short, simple post about e-mail alerts. We're creating them. We hope to make them useful to you!

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OKYO (Reuters) -- Google Inc.'s YouTube.com removed 29,549 video files from its popular Web site after receiving a demand from a group of Japanese media companies over copyright infringement, an industry group said Friday.

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BOCA RATON, Florida (AP) -- A teen engineering prodigy who gained national attention in 2002 when he and his family received identification chip implants on live television was killed in a motorcycle accident, authorities said.

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MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Two teenagers Wednesday drove a stolen car onto the U.S. military base that commands much of the war on terror, triggering an investigation into the security breach, police and military officials said.

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Is the Bush administration just using scare tactics? I think they are to a degree. It certainly wouldn't surprise me if George Bush wasn't raising the terror alerts just to boost his poll numbers.

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Not sure if announcing these threats to the public is the right thing. This is such a broad alert, just doesn't make sense to me.

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