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The 999 phone charging myth is an urban legend or myth that claims that if a mobile phone has low battery, then dialling 999 (or any regional emergency telephone number) charges the phone so it has more power. This was confirmed as untrue by several British police forces who publicly cited the dangers of making such calls.
Tacoma (/ t ə ˈ k oʊ m ə / tə-KOH-mə) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. [6] A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Bellevue, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park, and 80 miles (130 km) east ...
Washington State Health Care Authority awards $1 million to Tacoma - making it one of five jurisdictions to introduce a Street Medicine Team. ‘Helping them where they are.’ Mobile team soon to ...
The city of Tacoma, Washington. ©Photo courtesy of the city of Tacoma. The ballot measure would increase the city’s property tax by 25 cents per $1,000 of assessed value for a maximum levy rate ...
The Tacoma City Council is the major governing body in the city of Tacoma, Washington. The city council has one mayor and eight council members, who are elected to serve four-year terms. The city council has the power to write the laws of the city, budget the city's finances, and make other decisions for the city. The city council holds ...
The city of Tacoma voted to name a park after Dr. Joye Hardiman, a prominent local educator, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. Council members also heard that Evergreen-Tacoma achieved a retention rate ...
St. Peter's Church is a historic church on Starr between 29th and 30th Streets in the Old Tacoma neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington, United States. It was built in 1873 and added to the National Register in 1974. Old St. Peter's Church was the first church built in Tacoma [2] and is now Tacoma's oldest existing building. The first services were ...
In 2007, the Tacoma City Council adopted new official boundaries for downtown Tacoma which included a portion of the Hilltop neighborhood as far west as South L Street and changed the name of the Hilltop business district to the Upper Tacoma Business District, a name that local business owners had started using to avoid the gang and crime ...