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WHAT TO DO ON A 911 CALL or EMERGENCIESThe PreparedNow website was developed to assist the average person on what and how to prepare for emergencies. After responding to emergency calls over the last two decades, these simple points may be difference in an emergency response team saving the life of a loved one. They are quick, simple to remember and easier to implement. The Five Most Important Medical Things to Share with the Fire Department. The Five Most Important Points on Fire Safety. The Five Most Important Things To Do If There Is A Fire. Things You Can Do...

Haven't seen htis posted yet- it seems to be all over htel iberal news lately, but no mention of it here on FR- Just want to get people's reaction to this and their thoughts- Here's the link as I'm not sure how much of hte article can be posted- but basically it has 2 'experts' on voice annalysis that declare that hte voice is not George Zimmerman's voice http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-31/news/os-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-911-20120331_1_voice-identification-expert-reasonable-scientific-certainty

Steamboat cruises are back on the Mississippi River as of today. The Great American Steamboat Co. heads out of New Orleans today. "They'll be offering three-, to seven- to fourteen-day cruises all up and down the Mississippi River," says Robert Jumonville, director of cruise and tourism at the Port of New Orleans. They're steaming on the American Queen, which has been totally refurbished since it last sailed out of New Orleans in 2008. "It's about 420 passengers and top-of-the line. They've done a really nice job of reconditioning it after it's been laid up for a couple of years," says...

LAKE CUSHMAN, Wash. - A woman who was shot dead in her Lake Cushman home on Thursday told her husband, "Why don't you just shoot me?" before he opened fire at her with a shotgun, according to the Mason County Sheriff's Office.

Iconic vessel is back on the waterThe historic vessel from the 1951 classic film "The African Queen" is back on the waters of Key Largo after some major restoration work. The vessel received almost $70,000 in restorations, including cosmetic and mechanical repairs to make sure the boat will be able to carry passengers, according to the Florida Keys News Bureau. The African Queen was built in 1912 at England's Lytham shipbuilding yard and was originally named the Livingstone. It served the British East Africa Rail Company shuttling cargo in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo until 1968. The vessel was...

They made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. A self-described pothead said he was drafted into a mob war against his will when a Mafia associate took him out for what he thought would be a night of club hopping — but he was instead given a gun and told to participate in a gangland hit. Robert Ventriglia — who wasn’t even in the mob — yesterday told jurors in the trial of two Colombo Mafia members, that he was taken to a street in North Massapequa, Long Island, and told to “shoot at the people” who get into a...

A CALZONE measuring 65cm wide and weighing more than two kilos is on the plate in front of me at Amici Pizza Restaurant in Holloway Road. For 15 months the supersize feast has been taunting diners, and now I have taken up the calzone challenge. Anyone who can finish the giant folded pizza receives a free dessert and coffee. Simple. Despite the restaurant taking, on average, 50 orders a week only one person has completed the challenge. The traditional Italian calzone dough is hand-made on the premises and filled with tomato, mozzarella, goat’s cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, ham and olives. The...

A N. Korean official at a media center of a hotel in Pyongyang on Apr. 13 (probably after launch failure)

Sarah Boushey, the vodka-chugging, Smurf-hating mother, was sentenced to 69 days in San Mateo county jail after the Smurfs movie drove her to drink and drive with her 4-year-old daughter in the car. According to the San Mateo County DA, mom, who pleaded no contest to driving drunk with a minor in the car, has already served 47 days behind bars. Boushey will also have to install an anti-DUI device in her car and use it for the three years she is on probation. Readers probably recall the incident last August where 42-year-old Boushey took her young daughter to see...

Ask any resident of North Carolina draped in baby blue if they would like a chance to play hoops with their beloved Tar Heels, and almost all of them would put it on their bucket list. Many Carolinians got that wish yesterday as members of the Elite 8 squad played pick-up games with students and fans at the campus' Cobb Court. While a few had moments of glory, and most were thoroughly dominated, one little man stole the show. Meet Addis Cone, eight-years-old, of Morris Grove Elementary

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Hundreds gathered at the University of Southern California for a candlelight vigil Wednesday in memory of two Chinese graduate students, who were shot to death near campus. Police say the students were shot in their BMW south of 27th Street near South Raymond and transported to a hospital where they were both pronounced dead. Dean of Religious Life Varun Soni opened the ceremony at 7:30 p.m., saying the hearts of the Trojan family are broken. Prayer candles in the shape of hearts and white roses and along with lilies were placed at the foot of the...

Madison - The battle over a sandhill crane hunt in Wisconsin isn't over. In fact, it might just be starting. The Wisconsin Conservation Congress plans to ask the public whether a hunt is a good idea at its spring hearings Monday, less than a month after a Republican bill that would have created a hunt died in the Legislature after bird lovers railed that hunters already kill enough animals. The question promises to reignite a heated debate. Wisconsin prides itself on its hunting heritage. Hunting advocates argue the sandhill population is out of control and the birds devour farmers' corn...

Betty Self, 11, stayed calm and believes anyone would have done the same thingAn 11-year-old Sacramento girl helped rescue a drowning child Easter Sunday at a Mission Bay hotel. On Sunday, an 8-year-old boy nearly drowned in one of the pools at Paradise Point Resort in Mission Bay. “It was really scary,” Betty Self said. The 11-year-old and her family were staying at the hotel while on vacation. Self said she noticed a boy face down at the bottom of the 5-foot deep pool and jumped in. “I kind of just did it. I didn't really think. I thought if...

It's a site for rituals performed by practitioners of the Palo Mayombe religion, Richard Couto saysThe curious are beginning to seek out a bizarre site that sits nestled up against a major roadway in northwest Miami-Dade. The ground is littered with pots full of small tools, machetes, the remains of animals – and, before the police arrived, human bones and a skull. Richard Couto explains that it is a site for sacrificial rituals performed by practitioners of the Palo Mayombe religion. "They often use human remains in their ceremonial sites and that is exactly what we found at the bottom...

A man who repeatedly attacked a defenseless fellow inmate in the Toronto “Don” Jail for eating his potato chips has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 12 years. “This was not only absolutely senseless it was exceptionally brutal,” Ontario Superior Court Justice John McMahon said Wednesday. The most significant mitigating factor is that Troy Campbell, 26, pleaded guilty and has taken responsibility for killing Jeff Munro, 31, on Nov. 7, 2009, sparing the victim’s family the hardship of a lengthy trial, McMahon said. Originally charged with first-degree murder, Campbell pleaded guilty to the lesser charge...

Sent: 4/10/2012 6:28:47 P.M. Central Daylight Time Subj: New message from Kristi Nelson My name Kristi Nelson, and I'm with NBC 5 News here in DFW. I’m working on a series of stories about race relations in 2012. This was planned before all of the recent race discussions prompted by the Trayvon Martin case, although perhaps that makes the topic more timely. I’m writing because we need input from people who identify themselves as “Conservative.” What we're asking people is how they feel race relations have improved or declined here in North Texas, or if they believe racial equality has...

A six-year-old boy who wanted to help his father clear timber ended up losing his life due to his altruistic urge, in one of the more gruesome recent tragedies. Jeffrey Bourgeoiff, who was helping his father throw branches into a wood chipper, decided to throw a few branches in himself while his father’s back was turned

The music video for Notorious B.I.G.’s song “Big Poppa” has dancing and gambling, a thumping rhythm and a young Sean “P. Diddy” Combs sitting in a hot tub surrounded by scantily clad women. But if you watch carefully, you can catch a glimpse of another young man, one who darts on and off the screen wearing big, gold-accented sunglasses, taking swigs from a bottle of Champagne. He was a member of B.I.G.’s rap group, Junior M.A.F.I.A., and he went by the name Klept, or Kleptomaniac. Fast-forward 15 years. Where do you think Kleptomaniac might be now? “Real estate,” he said....

He is the man who began self help talk radio over 50 years ago and is still on all over the nation trying to wake Americans out of their hypntotic states. I call him the repo man because he has the roadmap to reposessing our own bodies and minds, as our only problems in life and in our nation are that we have all become possessed by entities very similar to the ones in the movie " Invasion of the Body Snatchers". However, these creatures are very crafty and hate goodness, indeed they are the mischievious flipside of our good...

APRIL 5--An Indiana man had his scrotum severely torn when his “on-again, off-again” girlfriend entered his home and pummeled him in an attack that resulted in the woman’s arrest on several criminal charges, including two felonies. -snip- Reber, the victim told cops, first struck him repeatedly in the head before latching onto his scrotum and “squeezing as hard as she could.” The man, interviewed by police at a hospital emergency room, said that he “was in incredible pain when Reber grabbed his scrotum and began digging in her fingers.” The victim recalled that Reber “refused to let go of his...