Many of the calls going to D.C.’s emergency call takers aren’t emergencies at all — hundreds of thousands of them a year, in fact — so the city launched a public awareness campaign. While most people ...

Bogus information paralyzes Boston for hours before second bomber captured. — -- [This is the final installment of an ABC News digital special report "5 Days," which tells the hour-by-hour, ...

In an erratic 911 call, the suspect in the arson attack at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence rattled off perceived injustices he believed Josh Shapiro committed against the suspect’s daughters, ...

California is in the midst of a massive overhaul of its aging, landline-based 911 emergency call system, with project leaders promising the ground-breaking “Next Generation 911” (NG911) network will ...

"It's like a slow torture where just a little comes out, a little more comes out," said Steve Conclaves, whose 21-year-old daughter Kaylee was killed in the Idaho murders, of the newly-released 911 ...

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GRESHAM, Ore. — When a woman in east Multnomah County called 911 to order a pizza, the dispatcher quickly realized it wasn't a prank. The woman's whispered responses to the dispatcher's coded ...

Demetria Spence, 31, was arrested and charged with transmitting a false public alarm following the death of rapper Young Scooter. Young Scooter, whose real name is Kenneth Edward Rashaad Bailey, died ...

HIS NAME HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED. A LOCAL FAMILY GETS MORE THAN $4 MILLION AS PART OF A WRONGFUL DEATH SETTLEMENT. THIS CASE HIGHLIGHTS AN ISSUE MANY PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING IN THE METRO WHEN THEY ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) -When you call 911, you expect an immediate answer, but for many within Chatham County, that may not always be the case. Thousands of calls to the county’s 911 center become ...

Next month, 911 call takers in the Kansas City Police Department will get a pay raise. The pay increase, up to $25 an hour, will go into effect May 1. Coupled with a $2,500 hiring bonus, the pay raise ...