Valarie Basheda

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved using the 3-digit number 988 as a suicide prevention hotline number. Calls to the number will be directed to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which includes 163 crisis centers. The lifeline is available by calling 800-273-TALK (800-273-8255) and through online chats. The center answered more than 2.2 million calls and 100,000 online chats in 2018.

Dec. 13, 2019 -- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved using the 3-digit number 988 as a suicide prevention hotline number. Calls to the number will be directed to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which includes 163 crisis centers. The lifeline is available by calling 800-273-TALK (800-273-8255) and through online chats. The center answered more than 2.2 million calls and 100,000 online chats in 2018.

Dec. 3, 2019 -- Former President Jimmy Carter is back in the hospital, this time with a urinary tract infection. Carter had just been released from Emory University Hospital before Thanksgiving, where he was treated for bleeding in his brain after a fall. He returned to his home in Plains, GA. He was admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, GA., over the weekend, according to a news release from the Carter Center.