{"id":181229,"date":"2026-02-26T13:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/181229\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:06:18","slug":"amber-alert-canceled-for-missing-12-year-old-austin-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/181229\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Alert canceled for missing 12-year-old Austin girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Amber Alert issued for a 12-year-old girl from Austin has been canceled, officials said on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The girl was reported missing by the Travis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Tuesday, Feb. 24. The Amber Alert was canceled on Wednesday, Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p>The history of the Amber Alert\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first Amber Alert was issued on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/amber-hagerman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">January 13, 1996, after 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was reported missing<\/a>. The body of the little girl who lived in Arlington, Texas, was found four days later in a creek.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children shares the story of a woman in the community who called for a public Emergency Alert System.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Diane Simone wanted community members to be alerted when a child is missing so they could help in the search. She requested it be named after Amber Hagerman, and hence, Amber&#8217;s Plan was created in her memory.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Amber Alert issued for a 12-year-old girl from Austin has been canceled, officials said on Wednesday afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[22737,132,134,133,3831,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-181229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-amber-alert","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-missing-person","13":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}