burning auto by the truck driver and another motorist, police said.
later destroyed by a British subamrine, officials said.
A 27-year-old East German was saved by his trousers Thursday when he fell from a sixth-floor window of his Potsdam home, the ADN news agency said.
The Medal of Valor, the county's highest award, was given Tuesday to a Mission Viejo man who beat back a mountain lion attacking a 5-year-old girl and to a Marine captain who pulled a crash victim from a burning vehicle.
Firemen kicked down a front door of a flame-threatened duplex in South-Central Los Angeles early Friday and rescued a sleeping 98-year-old deaf woman from her bedroom.
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When the Chicago Cubs lost the National League championship series to the San Diego Padres in October, there was a feeling that a period of mourning would set in on the Windy City.
Chucks Edwards, a Buena Park bricklayer who saved a 69-year-old woman from an attacker, will receive the Andrew Carnegie Medal for heroism at 7 p.m.
save a man trapped in the wreckage of a mobile home buried by a mud slide near a Cascade Mountain river.
Three people were freed after being held for two days by alleged kidnapers who threatened to cut off their ears and fingers unless a $275,000 ransom was paid, the FBI disclosed today.
Tuesday as waves up to 28 feet high pounded the full length of the fog-bound California coast.
The lives of more than a million Third World children have been saved in the last 12 months as a
Four passers-by who helped rescue a man and a 6-year-old boy from their burning car after it collided head-on with a motor home on Interstate 5 near Castaic received commendations Wednesday from the California Highway Patrol.
One minute before Ryan Trego's life almost ended, he was just a regular 21-month-old toddler hanging around the family pool with his mom and dad.
Wylcie Murray loves dogs.
John Brooks never met Raoul Wallenberg, but he owes his life to the Swedish envoy who was arrested and vanished behind the Iron Curtain after the Red Army invaded Budapest near the end of World War II.
An 80-year-old volunteer meal delivery man, credited with saving a 91-year-old man and his 86-year-old sister from their burning house, says he just happened to be there at the right time.
Capistrano, 22-month-old Soren David Baird was perched on his mother's lap in a hospital room, happy and smiling.
It was viewed as a prized victory for local preservationists and historians, but to 77-year-old Marie Buck it was simply putting things "back where they belong."