New York Police Officer Rescues Dog from Icy Waters of Partially Frozen Lake
A 10-month-old Labrador retriever named Kona ran onto an icy Bond Lake — just north of Niagara Falls — after a flock of geese landed nearby and startled her, according to her owner. Kona then fell into...
View ArticleSouthwest Airlines Employee Tracks Down Family to Return Touching Handwritten...
Last September, Rachel DeGolia had one of her worst fears realized when a stack of irreplaceable family letters were left on a plane. She told CNN that the situation was “tragic,” but this tragedy...
View ArticleMaryland Man Receives ‘Breakthrough’ Heart Transplant From Genetically...
David Bennett, a 57-year-old man from Maryland with a life-threatening heart condition, has become the first person in the world to undergo a successful animal-to-human heart transplant. The University...
View ArticleFlorida Deputies Rescue Woman Trapped in Burning Car Seconds Before it was...
Florida Highway Patrol officer Richard Brewster was driving north on the Suncoast Parkway in Pasco County, Florida just after midnight on Dec. 29 when he witnessed a horrendous car crash. A car slammed...
View Article23-Year-Old Colorado Woman Rescues Three Children From Icy Pond
Dusti Talavera, 23, was inside her Denver apartment watching three children play outside in a frozen pond. When she looked outside again, she saw the children fall in. “Just looking out my window saw a...
View ArticleAnonymous Shopper Gifts Boy Iconic Guitar After Seeing Him Visit Store to...
A young boy named Fallon would visit the J.B. Hart Music Co. store in Grand Junction, Colorado frequently in order to play what he referred to as the “Pantera” guitar, or the Dean Dimebag Darrell ML...
View ArticleDonkey at Texas Rescue Named ‘Betty White’ After the Late Actress and...
Betty White had been a consistent donor to the Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue in San Angelo, Texas since 2006. After the death of the beloved actress, the rescue decided to name a newborn donkey — born...
View ArticleAnimals Laugh Too! UCLA Study Finds ‘Vocal Play Signals’ in at Least 65 Species
In an article published Bioacoustics, an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to animal sounds, primatologist and UCLA anthropology graduate student Sasha Winkler and UCLA professor of...
View ArticleDog Missing for Four Months Rescued From Snowy California Hillside, Reunited...
In late August, Ricardo Rodriguez was camping near Lake Tahoe with four of his friends and his three-year-old pitbull-mix, Russ. Russ ran away from the group after being frightened by someone....
View ArticleWhile Running for his Life, Heroic Stranger Stops to Save Young Girl from...
During the horrifying Bronx apartment fires that occurred Sunday, Jan. 9, Fatima Wood was trying to get herself and her two children out of the building, struggling to escape their 19-story apartment...
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