From her modest home in Hood County, the Texan who first came up with the idea of a child abduction alert says the tone system needs a tuneup. | Opinion ...

The Ashanti Alert system is named after Ashanti Billie, who was a 19-year-old woman who disappeared in 2017 in Virginia.

Residents in Central Texas are worried about a series of reported attempted kidnappings in the Williamson County area.

Hutto and Round Rock police are investigating a report of an attempted child abduction. This is not the first attempted child abduction reported in the Central Texas area.