911

John Ruckh, a 24 year EMS veteran in Forsyth County, North Carolina, has been suspended after comments he made about Oprah Winfrey were picked up in the 911 call made by Maya Angelou‘s caretaker while the famed poet was dying Wednesday morning at her Winston-Salem home, reports the Winston-Salem Journal. SEE ALSO:  Dr. Maya Angelou Funeral […]

We reported earlier on the five-year-old North Carolina girl who saved her 90-year-old babysitter. Here’s another hero kid: a four-year-old Georgia boy, who helped his mother by calling 911 after she passed out. Jaden Howe says he didn’t know what was wrong with his mom. He did know, however, that she wasn’t responding and needed help. That’s when he […]

It’s Now Possible to Text 911 Starting last week, the four major cell phone service providers — Sprint, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and AT&T — enabled customers to text their emergencies to the local governments in 16 states that are set up for it. (Only Vermont is currently using the technology statewide.) For now, the FCC says that […]

Get up, a-get-get get down, Dallas, Texas, because 911 is definitely a joke in your town. And you have racist — now terminated — operator, April Sims, to thank for it. Sims took to her Facebook page to post bigoted, stereotypical insults about Black people, particularly those who call 911. Though her page is private, […]

Legendary singer Tony Bennett has apologized for comments he made on the Howard Stern show laying blame on the U.S. for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Check out our Top 11 9/11 Conspiracy Theories More 9/11 Truthers “I am sorry if my statements suggested anything other than an expression of my love for my country, my […]

NEW YORK — New York City is beefing up security at bridges and tunnels and commuters can expect a show of force at train stations around the city in response to a potential terror threat before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New Yorkers should be vigilant. But he […]

New York — Josephine Harris, a 69-year-old grandmother from Brooklyn whose story of survival during the September 11 terrorist attacks received nationwide attention, has passed away. On 9/11, following the plane attacks on the World Trade Center, Harris descended 50 floors of stairs in an attempt to escape the building. That’s when she encountered a […]

CONNECTICUT — Many of the 9/11 victims we know and hear about are white. But there are plenty of African Americans ones and a Connecticut station was able tog et a hold of one. Melvin Esdaile of North Haven thinks about that September 11th day every day of his life, but on this day he […]

NEW YORK — A woman who had her two children taken away from her resulting in a battle with crack addiction and depression after the 9/11 attacks, has finally shaken off her demons. Marcy Borders, 38, had her life go in a downward spiral on the tragic day of Sept. 11th, 2001. Borders was a […]

WASHINGTON — The federal government is escalating security around the country in preparation for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and conducting confidential briefings with state and local law enforcement organizations. But officials say there is no specific indication that a terror plot against the U.S. is under way. Americans can expect more security […]

DALLAS — Police have released audio of the 911 call from the Dallas hotel Nicki Ninaj was staying at after an alleged altercation between her and a man that resulted in her face being bruised. In the audio, Nicki Minaj can be clearly heard saying “what you hit me for” while the male asks her […]

HONOLULU — President Barack Obama said Sunday he was honored to sign a bill to provide aid to survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and first responders who became ill working in the ruins at the World Trade Center.