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Officials: School Shooting Threats Making The Rounds In North Carolina Likely A Hoax

4:04pm February 20, 2018

A series of posts on social media threatening school shootings are circulating through a number of North Carolina counties. But some officials are saying the threats are not what they seem.

The mass shooting in Las Vegas this month was one of the latest incidents to draw listeners to apps allowing the public to listen to police and fire frequencies.

National

Apps Have More People Tuning In To Police Chatter When Disaster Strikes

12:57pm October 25, 2017

by Yu-Ning Aileen Chuang

The Las Vegas mass shooting and the California wildfires are the latest incidents that have drawn listeners to apps allowing the public to listen to police and fire frequencies. Why do people do it?

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Winston-Salem Police Address Public Safety Concerns

5:08pm October 02, 2017

by Eddie Garcia

The Winston Salem Police Department is sending condolences to police in Las Vegas, after a

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Audit: Troopers Violated Policy With Long Work Commutes

4:44pm September 11, 2017

by Associated Press

The North Carolina Highway Patrol says it has addressed recent problems in a state audit with some patrol administrators and troopers violating agency policy by commuting large distances to work.

Earthquake survivors look at a collapsed building in Istanbul in August 1999. The magnitude 7.4 quake killed 17,000 people across northwestern Turkey.

World News

18 Years After Turkey's Deadly Quake, Safety Concerns Grow About The Next Big One

10:57am September 07, 2017

by Peter Kenyon

A 1999 quake killed 17,000. Experts are warning that Turkey is badly unprepared, and concern is growing since many urban green spaces meant as earthquake evacuation zones have been sold to developers.

Phoenix police move protesters away after using tear gas outside the Phoenix Convention Center, where President Trump hosted a rally, earlier this week.

National

Police Struggle To Balance Public Safety With Free Speech During Protests

9:26pm August 26, 2017

by Martin Kaste

After a series of violent political protests, police feel pressure to err on the side of caution, but too much crowd control can curb free speech. One former police chief calls it a "guessing game."

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Traffic Fatalities Rising In Winston-Salem

11:22am June 13, 2017

by Eddie Garcia

There's been an uptick in traffic deaths in the Winston-Salem area. A vehicle crash on June 11 marked the 12th crash fatality of 2017.

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Chicago's Fire Department has only half as many ambulances as it has fire vehicles, but it gets 20 times more medical calls than fire calls these days.

Why Send A Firetruck To Do An Ambulance's Job?

8:15am April 11, 2017

by Monica Eng

Chicago's fire department gets 20 times more medical calls than fire calls, but it has twice as many firetrucks as ambulances. Other cities also face this disparity and there are calls for change.

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Hit-and-run accidents in California decreased by as much as 10 percent after the state passed a law in 2013 granting driver's licenses to unauthorized immigrants, say researchers at Stanford University.

How Offering Driver's Licenses To Immigrants Here Illegally Makes Roads Safer

4:58pm April 04, 2017

by Adrian Florido

A 2013 California law that granted driver's licenses to immigrants in the country illegally reduced hit-and-run accidents by 7 to 10 percent in 2015, meaning roughly 4,000 fewer hit-and-runs.

Drivers distracted by their devices are a well-documented, rising cause of traffic crashes, but there are a growing number of pedestrians, too, who can become oblivious to traffic around them.

National

Distraction, On Street And Sidewalk, Helps Cause Record Pedestrian Deaths

9:51am March 31, 2017

by David Schaper

The number of pedestrians killed in traffic jumped 11 percent in 2016, the highest year-over-year increase — in terms of percentage and total number of fatalities — since data has been collected.

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