Many people around the world dream to become United States citizens. Most people find it easier to live in such country where there are well paying jobs and lots of opportunities in education, healthcare and other fields. For this, most tourists and immigrants are scrambling to get a green card.

The victims were believed to be related and the gunman was among the dead, the police in Grapevine, Tex., said.

Under a pilot program aimed at heading off 911 calls and trips to the hospital, some paramedics visit chronically ill patients at their homes to check their vital signs and medications.

Prosecutors said the defendants made a fraudulent emergency call so that they could answer it.

A man in Manhattan called 911, met officers with a knife, refused to drop it and resisted even after a Taser strike.

Omar Thornton seemed eager to explain his bloody rampage, but unwilling to surrender.

A pair of lost travelers were rescued with a little help from a cell phone finder. Susan and Jeff were driving through the mountains of Utah when they got lost on some back mountain roads on the way to a family friend's house. Jeff kept driving but the roads continued to get worse as they drove on. And then a snow storm threatened to send them off the road.

When Karrie R. got lost in the wide expanse rural Kansas, she assumed her 3G phone would work. But when she came to a closed gas station and tried to find a map or call for help, there wasn't even a hint of service.

The perfect ribs were sitting on the kitchen counter, but the grill master was missing the perfect sauce. It was written on a yellowed piece of notebook paper he'd had in his recipe drawer for 10 years.

Everybody gets them, those unknown numbers that can come at all hours of the day and night -- but who is at the other end of the line? You could pick up the phone, but if the call comes in the middle of the night or during dinner, even that can be a hassle. Then you're stuck on the phone with whomever is at the other end of the line is someone you probably don't want to talk to.