Safety
How deed fraud works, and the free county alert that can catch it early
A Tampa-area couple got an alert the same day a fake deed hit their home. Getting the house back still took a year and a half.
A Tampa-area couple got an alert the same day a fake deed hit their home. Getting the house back still took a year and a half.
Wash it, get the owner's information, and report it. Here's why each step matters.
A small balance, a late fee, and a link. The FBI got nearly 60,000 complaints about this text in one year.
Check the seal, wiggle the reader, and tap instead of swipe. Some skimmers are invisible from the outside.
The risk peaks around 6 p.m. Here's what 42 years of crash data show about Halloween night.
You can turn, but oncoming traffic has a green light. That's the part people miss.
AMBER and Silver get the attention. These three cover missing people who don't qualify for either.
The 24-hour rule is a TV myth. For missing children, federal law actually forbids police from making you wait.
Evacuation orders go out by zone letter. If you don't know yours, you won't know if the order is for you.
Three orders that sound similar and ask for very different things. Here is what each one means.
Three colors, three very different emergencies. Here's what each alert means and what it's asking you to do.
A small camera on a pole, pointed at traffic. Here is what it records, who gets to search it, and why so many towns are voting it out.
