Amber Alert | featured news

The next time a child is abducted near you, your cellphone may shriek to life with an alert message.

Fliers have been posted on storefronts. Detectives have gone door to door. An Amber alert has been issued to sound the alarm that a girl is missing. The disappearance of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley from this Phoenix suburb on Oct. 11 has, in some ways, stuck to the script of what occurs coast to coast when children cannot be found. But the case of little Jhessye, whose name is pronounced Jessie and who was last seen wearing blue jean shorts, a white T-shirt and pink flip flops, has troubling elements all its own.

Police in Pasadena, California, issued an Amber Alert for missing 3-year-old Dylan Kurihara. He was last seen with his father on Saturday, but his father "does not recall being with the child due to his level of intoxication," police said.