Parents from the early- and mid-1980s probably remember the first "photo on a milk carton" kid, Etan Patz, with fear. Patz was killed in 1979 and became the first face of the Missing Children Milk ...

The 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz helped catalyze a national missing-children’s movement. The 6-year-old was one of the ...

The man convicted of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 was awarded a new trial Monday as a federal appeals court overturned the guilty verdict in ...

School officials from New York to California are scrambling for backup options as a shortage of half-pint milk cartons hits cafeterias across the U.S.

A community event on Sunday in Portland gave recycled milk cartons a brand new life, floating across a lake to the finish line.

If you were alive in the ’80s — or watched any shows set in that decade — you might remember when missing children’s faces started appearing on milk cartons around the country.

Milk cartons and jugs aren't supposed to be bloated and bulging, but is it cause for alarm? The answer is yes and no depending on the specifics.

These days, the idea of a missing person appearing on a milk carton is something of a cliché, and it's probably better known as a sitcom trope than something that happened in real life. However ...

Find out what happened to some of the missing kids who appeared on milks cartons, including Randy Parscale, Cinda Pallett, Rima Traxler, and David Warner.

Find out how the Missing Children Milk Carton Program got started, why it ended, how effective it was, and how it evolved into current methods of outreach.