Parsippany has agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle claims that an officer acted negligently in his telephone instructions in 2005 to the husband of a woman who was unconscious and not breathing.

About a dozen horses stampeded through eastern Chula Vista, California for about two hours Wednesday, galloping over streets and through parking lots but causing no reported damage or injuries.

After Naperville, Illinois police booked a woman for disorderly conduct, they granted her the customary one phone call. She promptly dialed 911. To report she was being held against her will at the Naperville police station.

Debra Laberdie, a shift leader with Livingston County 911 Central Dispatch in Howell, Michigan, has shared her story of growing up with domestic abuse in article she wrote for this month’s Public Safety Communications magazine.

After their pregnant mother suddenly went into labor, a pair of 9- and 11-year-old siblings helped successfully deliver a baby brother in their Fremont, Calif. home. As their 36-year-old mother Alana Sanders screamed in the background, Faith and Jabari Sanders calmly dialed 9-1-1, spoke to the dispatcher, and tied off the baby’s umbilical cord.

A new iPhone app can alert your family and friends of an emergency when you can’t call 9-1-1.

With opposition building, Florida House Speaker Larry Cretul is apparently abandoning his effort to make 911 calls confidential.