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Amber Alert cleared for 6-year-old girl in Reno

Olivia Houston (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children)

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By CHRISTIAN BERTOLACCINI LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

June 23, 2016 - 2:46 pm

An Amber Alert issued Thursday afternoon for a child last seen in Reno has been cleared.

Olivia Houston, 6, was last seen Thursday in a gold 2000 Dodge Intrepid with Nevada license plate 117AWJ, and wearing dark, multicolored clothes, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

No further details were immediately available.

Nevada Department of Transportation tweeted that the Amber Alert has been cleared as of 3:17 p.m.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Contact Christian Bertolaccini at cbertolaccini@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0381. Follow @bertolaccinic on Twitter.

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