IAN Alerts are used when children under the age of 18 with autism or mental illness go missing and may be in danger.

CUB RUN, Ky. (WZTV) — Kentucky State Police (KSP) confirmed a missing 5-year-old boy was found dead. Officers confirmed the tragic discovery of Silas Chearer, the subject of an Immediate Alert Notification (IAN Alert) after he went missing from his home in Hart County.

Ian Alerts are used when children under the age of 18 with autism or mental illness go missing and may be in danger.

Kentucky State Police are taking over the probe into multiple shootings Sunday that left two members of a small Lexington church dead, two others wounded, and a trooper injured.

A man from Kentucky has been arrested after allegedly driving across state lines to kidnap a 14-year-old girl from Ionia County, according to the Ionia County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office said the girl was safely located in Indiana after a joint effort with the Indiana State Police.

A state-appointed doctor in Kentucky ruled that the woman charged with killing her mother in Robertson County is competent to stand trial.

The Ian Alert was named after a 9-year-old who went missing in Covington and was found dead in the Ohio River.

MARSHALL COUNTY, Ky. (KFVS) - A school resource officer has been charged following an investigation in western Kentucky. The Kentucky State Police (KSP) said on May 14, the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office requested KSP to investigate allegations against one of its deputies, 47-year-old James Steven Oakley of Benton, Ky.