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Authorities say Amber Alert system has improved

You should start getting Amber Alerts about missing children a lot faster.

The Highway Patrol’s Sgt. Scott White says you’ll get that information almost as soon as troopers do.

“We used to have to send the information to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They would activate a system where it would spread it out to the phones. Now we have the power to be able to do that ourselves.”

White says authorities took heat for not issuing an Amber Alert when a four-year-old boy from Belle turned up missing in September. Bentlee Turner and the family friend he was with were both found dead next day. The family friend had shot the boy, then himself.

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