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Maine State Police cancel AMBER alert for missing children

AMBER alert canceled: children found safe, mother in custody
AMBER alert canceled: children found safe, mother in custody 00:21

NEWARK, N.J. -- Two missing children from Maine have been found safe, police say.

Maine State Police canceled an AMBER alert for the children around 5 p.m. Tuesday.

They say they were found safe and their mother was taken into custody in Massachusetts.

Police originally said two children had been taken by their mother on Monday, and that a phone ping from 3:30 p.m. Tuesday showed they were in Newark, New Jersey.

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