Special congressional elections are notoriously quirky and often hazardous to ruling parties. So with Donald Trump struggling in Washington, it’s hardly surprising Republicans are nervous about four contests this spring, especially one later this month in Atlanta’s suburbs.The poster child for what could happen occurred in Mississippi in 1981, six months after Ronald Reagan became president, when the GOP sought…
An emergency call a 911 dispatcher in Texas recently answered turned out to be from the dispatcher's daughter who was reporting that their house was burning.
Layla Wray was working an overnight shift in Madison County, north of Houston, when her 14-year-old daughter called to say the fire began on a back porch.
Wray maintained her composure during the call early Saturday and told the teen to remain calm and that firefighters were en route.
Wray's daughter, son and husband were not hurt but the home was destroyed.
Her only moment of agitation came when her children starting bickering and she told them to stop.
Sheriff Travis Neeley told KTRK-TV in Houston that Wray did a "fantastic job" in calming her daughter while dispatching firefighters as her own home burned.
