Emergency Responders

HOUSTON (AP) -- Rushing into a Houston home, police officer Austin Huckabee encountered a drunken, combative man bleeding profusely on the kitchen floor. He quickly realized the blood was spurting in rhythm with the man's heart and cardiac arrest was just moments away.

Moving through the legislative process in Trenton is a bill that would establish a “Yellow Dot Program” within the state Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC). The program would provide first responders with vital health information about drivers who elect to participate, so that the on-scene medical help can better tailor their treatments when the patients are unable to speak or are otherwise unresponsi