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AMBER Alert

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

This AMBER Alert has been cancelled, although the children are still thought to be with their non-custodial mother and boyfriend heading to Maine.
This is an Iowa AMBER Alert. Iowa Law Enforcement has determined that two children have been abducted and the lives of the child are in danger.
The abducted children are: Rae Ann Meyer, [...]

Changing the AMBER Alerts Again

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

For some reason this morning the AMBER Alert parser went insane. It reposted every item in my RSS feed when there were only 3 updates. So, to keep that from happening again, I’ve added an RSS item to the left hand of every page on the site. I’m still working on how [...]

Automatic AMBER Alert Posts

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

You may have noticed this evening a barrage of posts for an AMBER Alert in Texas. I’ve been able to upgrade how posts go out and now post them to my website and my RSS Feed. The only downside is that large states… like Texas… often cause several alerts to go out at [...]

AMBER Alerts work again

Friday, March 9th, 2007

I just had an AMBER Alert come through the system from South Carolina. The email alerts and web posting to the website are working once again. To see current AMBER alert information you can visit www.westendorf.us/special/emwin/amber.shtml.
I plan to eventually open up the email alerts for anyone to subscribe to that wants them. [...]

Alerts are coming back online

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Well, obviously, the upgrade didn't go so well.  Apparently the new version has different wildcard matching so my alarms that used to work didn't anymore.  Lucky for me, it only took 3 days to figure that out.  </sarcasm>  I have most webpage stuff back to normal.  Child Abduction Emergencies are being posted again as AMBER [...]

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