ALEDO, IL — Mercer County’s amateur radio operators are needed to provide communications assistance in emergency and disaster situations.

MCALESTER, OK — Pittsburg County Sheriff’s department’s emergency responders, also known as dispatchers, Julie Padgett and Cindy Taylor recently completed training in the Oklahoma Public Safety Conference in Tulsa.

JACKSON, MS — An Atlanta man says he lost thousands of dollars while doing E 9-1-1 training with Hinds County Supervisor Robert Graham. Charles Carter, President of the National Emergency Communications Institute, says he worked with Graham for nearly ten years. Carter held a press conference in Jackson Monday.

MCPHERSON, KS — In the basement of McPherson’s Law Enforcement Center, the county’s dispatchers crowded around multicolored flip-books. They were searching their way through various emergency scenarios, coding broken bones and making initial triage decisions on imaginary victims. One at a time each dispatcher would take a “call,” throwing pages back and forth,...

FITCHBURG, MA — Things are looking a little less bright for criminals in Fitchburg.

SOUTH BEND, IN — Thousands of people commit suicide in the United States each year. Many times there are certain notable behaviors a person who is thinking or planning to commit suicide will display. These behaviors could be verbal, written and even non-verbal. The Student Counseling Center has a new suicide prevention workshop that can help all students, faculty...

IOLA, KS — An eastern Kansas county is making an investment in teaching its youngest citizens to make 911 emergency calls.