Smartphone crash detection features, designed to assist first responders, are causing a surge in false alarms in Southern Pines. While the technology saves lives, it also misfires, straining emergency ...

The surge in jobless claims in early September to a four-year high turns out to have been a false alarm, at least for now. The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits in the seven days ...

Los Gatos will start charging residents for their home alarm systems next year -- and could even issue fines for too many false alarms. The town will require homeowners with security alarms to pay for ...

A social media post circulating on the Oak Harbor High School campus falsely claimed a homeless person was on campus on ...

FALL RIVER — A “false alarm” at Durfee High School triggered a brief lockdown early Friday morning, Sept. 19, Fall River Police Department confirmed. At about 8 a.m., Durfee experienced a technical ...

At the Randall Parkway entrance to the University of North Carolina Wilmington, a man was standing with a sign proclaiming "Fear Won't Win." It was less than 24 hours after reports of an unconfirmed ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WNCN) — Administrators at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington have given the all clear late Thursday night after telling students to shelter in place due to reports of a ...

The University of North Carolina Wilmington was under a shelter-in-place alert for over two hours due to unconfirmed reports of a gunman. School officials issued an all-clear, describing the incident ...

A government employee who lost her job is consoled. The job market has gotten a lot tougher this year. The surge in jobless claims in early September to a four-year high turns out to have been a false ...

On Tuesday morning, an electrical malfunction in the first floor of Marston Science Library set off fire alarms. Students were ordered to evacuate all floors of both Marston and the computer sciences ...

Hours after a shelter in place was issued at the University of North Carolina Wilmington on Thursday, Sept. 18, an all-clear was given just before 10 p.m. adding it was a "false alarm." The shelter in ...

Los Gatos will start charging residents for their home alarm systems next year — and could even issue fines for too many false alarms. The town will require homeowners with security alarms to pay for ...