Purple Alerts are intended to find missing adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Local journalism like this needs your support. Consider subscribing to your local newspaper. See our ...

The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country's post-9/11 jitters and the butt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Purple Alerts are intended to find missing adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A new color has been added to ...

A new color has been added to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement emergency alert system. This July, state officials added a Florida Purple Alert to help authorities locate missing adults with ...