ATLANTA - Officials with Atlanta’s 911 Dispatch Center said prank and non-emergency calls are adding to slow response times. With over 3,000 calls a day, dispatchers said only three-quarters of those ...

Last night at the dinner table, my girlfriend, out of the blue, picked up her phone, held down the home button and the familiar Siri bong sounded. She said clearly into the phone. Before I could tell ...

Siri is known to say "boots and cats" on repeat when asked to beatbox and give her sassy two cents about Game of Thrones. The latest Siri Easter egg is saying "108" to her — but you should stay far, ...

A middle school prank became much more than a harmless joke on Monday after 15 students went from riding the bus home to being treated for "respiratory irritation." The incident started when someone ...

A former firefighter from the Plymouth Township Fire-Rescue Tilbury Station in West Nanticoke allegedly reported three false emergencies, including one that launched a 2.5-hour search of the ...

Pittsburgh Police respond to Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School for what turned out to be a hoax report of an active shooter, on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 in the Oakland neighborhood of ...

Boulder city officials say they will be removing five emergency phone stations from University Hill because over the past two years the devices have only been used to prank call police. In 2009 and ...

Thousands of harassment and prank calls are made each month to the emergency hotlines of the Israel Police and Magen David Adom (MDA) - and the Knesset is moving to stop the phenomenon. One in five ...

An 18-year-old straphanger was stabbed to death on a Brooklyn subway train when his pal pulled “a stupid kid prank” and yanked the emergency brake — ticking off a knife-wielding attacker, police said ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is again appealing to Jamaicans to desist from making prank phone calls to emergency numbers, especially around the festive season. Head of the ...