DOUGLAS COUNTY, MN — When you call 911 you probably expect to get routed to the correct dispatch center. But that doesn’t always happen in the Twin Ports when you call on a cell phone. Sometimes the county you call from isn’t the county that answers your emergency call.

MORGANTON, NC — Plans for a consolidated 911 facility in Burke County are moving forward as the inter-government project earned a $7,280,630 grant from the North Carolina 911 Board.

LINCOLN, IL — Cellphone users should be asked to pay more in fees to help support emergency telephone systems, a Logan County official says.

CHARLESTON, WV — The Kanawha County Metro 911 Board filed a motion with the state Public Service Commission to block efforts by the state police to set up a statewide non-emergency 311 system.

CLAYTON, MO — St. Louis County police dispatchers were inundated with more than 200 phone calls in a half hour Thursday night after the nationally televised “Nancy Grace” show told viewers to call and voice their opinions about the Tyler Dasher homicide case.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Terrified screams and desperate pleas for help can be heard on a 911 call made by three young girls trapped under an elevator at their school.

NEW BRITAIN, CT– An emergency dispatcher told the common council Wednesday night that then-Mayor Timothy Stewart threatened to fire employees if they opened the emergency operations center during the pre-Halloween storm and blackout.