Suppose you’re a government official, trying to convince hardened skeptics you’re not pulling a con. That’s the job at the moment for Andrew Neiditz, executive director of South Sound 911, the biggest emergency communications outfit in the county. He intends to close a deal Pierce County voters approved five years ago.
- PUB DATE: 4/29/2016 1:51:20 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

Suppose you’re a government official, trying to convince hardened skeptics you’re not pulling a con. That’s the job at the moment for Andrew Neiditz, executive director of South Sound 911, the biggest emergency communications outfit in the county. He intends to close a deal Pierce County voters approved five years ago.
- PUB DATE: 4/29/2016 1:51:20 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

Richard Smith lost his left leg to diabetes a year ago and is starting to feel loss of sensation in his other leg. At age 72, the retired maintenance worker kept ending up on the floor in his apartment. The 6-foot-1-inch, 230-pound man was too big to lift for his wife, who stands at 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds.
- PUB DATE: 4/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: arizona daily star

PHOTO - We call police when we need help. As it turns out, police needed to call the Kansas City Fire Department when they ended up stranded in a tight spot! Gregg Favre from the St. Louis Fire Department tweeted out a picture of the rescue. An elevator malfunctioned inside the police academy near 435 and Pleasant Valley Road.
- PUB DATE: 4/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDAF-TV Fox 4 Kansas City News

He really wanted to be a firefighter, Larry Christmas Jr. said, but he gave up his dream and filed a lawsuit because the fire department insisted he cut off his dreadlocks. In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Christmas accuses the city of racial discrimination. He requests $500,000 in compensation for losing the job and $2 million in damages designed to punish the city.
- PUB DATE: 4/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the sun herald