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The first time I called into an elevator, I picked up my iPhone and dialed the number—labeled on my list as the Crown Plaza Hotel in Chicago—and immediately heard two beeps, then a recording of a ...

After a nurse was nearly crushed to death in an elevator at a Fort Worth hospital, state investigators blamed the incident on worn-out brakes caused by lack of maintenance. State law requires that all ...