If you call 911 in Vallejo, California and hang up before police find out what’s wrong, you may pay as price for wasting their time.

An editorial from Urgent Communications calls for a stop to state and local governments raiding funds collected for emergency communications systems.

The 911 operator who was fired three years ago after treating an emergency call from a 5-year-old boy whose mother was dying as a prank will return to work, police said.

A divided Michigan Supreme Court has allowed a paralyzed gunshot victim to move ahead with her lawsuit against a Detroit 911 operator who asked if she was “a mental patient” when she called for help.

In a decision that could have sweeping impact on employers across the nation, the Supreme Court ruled that white and Hispanic firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.

In Lyons, Kansas, changes to the 911 system have sparked a federal lawsuit.  One woman says the new system is putting her life and others in danger.

BRONX (WCBS-TV) — The sounds of a young man’s final moments were played in a Bronx courtroom Monday. He managed to dial 9-1-1 as his killers came to his door, while his mother was also making desperate calls to save her son.