Following the death of a young boy with autism in Hart County, community organizations are raising awareness about resources available for families.

On Tuesday, the first IAN alert was issued for 5-year-old Silas Shearer in Hart County, who went missing from his home.

A heartbreaking loss in Hart County is prompting urgent questions about Kentucky’s new Ian Alert system, designed to help ...

HART COUNTY, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) — Kentucky’s first-ever Ian Alert was issued Tuesday for a missing 5-year-old boy in Hart County — a system designed to help locate children with disabilities in ...

An "Ian Alert" covers gaps between other alerts and will use the same system as the AMBER Alert. It’s named for Ian Sousis, a ...

The alert system was used for the first time exactly one year after legislation was passed. What we know about an IAN alert.

Police said 5-year-old Silas, who is autistic, walked away from his home Tuesday at 8 a.m. in Cub Run, Kentucky. Cub Run is just outside of Mammoth Cave National Park, which is about 170 miles from ...

A tragic ending, after many tri-staters received an “IAN Alert” on their phone Tuesday morning. The alert was sent out for a missing juvenile, who police ...

The IAN Alert was named for Ian Sousis, a northern Kentucky boy with autism who escaped a children's home. He was found after ...

IAN Alerts are one of two new alerts that were passed into law in Kentucky in 2024. It uses the same system as an Amber Alert, but is meant to notify everyone of a child with autism or other special ...

A 5-year-old Hart County boy was found dead Tuesday morning a short time after he was seen walking way from his home.

Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high. There have been 1,267 confirmed measles cases this year, the Centers for Disease Control ...