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Usher is calm under pressure or perhaps he was just fearing for his life and remained as quiet as possible for safety reasons. You can listen to the singer’s 911 call to the authorities on June 24, which he placed when a delusional female fan who claimed to be his wife was found wandering (aka trespassing) on his property in Georgia.

In an incident that’s sure to rattle your faith in emergency services, a 911 dispatcher in Maryland nodded off and started snoring after taking a panicked call from a woman whose husband had stopped breathing. Yeesh. Not a great time to fall asleep on the job, guy.

If you’re going to fall and hurt yourself, you might think a hospital lobby is a pretty lucky place to do it. After all, the building does house doctors and nurses who can tend to you right away. That’s what 82-year-old Doreen Wallace thought. But she was wrong.

During Sunday’s ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Paul Simon gave a haunting acoustical performance of ‘The Sound of Silence’ while some onlookers wept.

While many of this weekend’s games were just tune-ups for showdowns to come, there were several great battles to keep things exciting, including Michigan’s last-second win over Notre Dame, South Carolina’s shootout victory over Georgia and Auburn stuffing Mississippi State at the goal line to win their 17th straight game. With that, here are the highlights from the top 25 and other games of intere

September 11, 2001 is one day that no American will ever, ever forget. Whether you were in New York City, at work, at home, at school, you will always remember where you were the moment that you heard about the Twin Towers being hit. Something as traumatic as that is not something that you forget ...

9/11 is a day that is forever in our hearts and rocked our country to it's core. We had to accept the fact that someone could hurt us without warning. We had to watch the horrible images replay on the news countless times. We had to reevaluate our lives and make hard choices. ...

Following the 9/11 attacks, our country became unified in a way that had never been seen before. Everyone was in the dark and unsure of what was to come and people had lost hope. But in a time when there was so much chaos, there was one thing that brought everyone together: music ...

Many television networks will no longer air the most devastating moments of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, lest it upset the families of the thousands of people who lost their lives that day. But Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive feels that that footage is essential as a “resource for scholars, journalists, and the public,” and has archived 3,000 hours of it,

The National September 11 Memorial will be unveiled on the 10th anniversary of the attacks next month. Workers have been toiling at the site for seven years, but this time-lapse video crunches it all down to just a minute and a half.

A Portland, Oregon woman came home Monday night to find an intruder in her house. So she did the logical thing and called 911. Little did she know, the intruder had beaten her to the punch. Worried the returning homeowner would shoot him, Timothy James Chapek -- who had just helped himself to a shower in the bathroom -- had already dialed 911, admitting he had broken into the house, and requesti