Tag: Hero

You never know when you're going to be in the right place at the right time to help someone, but being ready and willing to help is the best way ...

When Kathleen Osborne of Cambridgeshire, England, was just 11 years old, she developed a lump in her right leg that was very painful. In 2005, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. ...

Shortly after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, police arrived at a home in Greenville County, South Carolina, where an armed man was holed up after shooting at his mother several times. ...

Early on the morning of Sept. 27, Officer David Baker with the Cookeville Police Department in Tennessee and paramedic Justin Remillard met and quickly formed a bond. They now know ...

When Susan Causey of Riverview, Michigan, drove to pick up her 84-year-old husband Ron from the senior center where he'd been playing cards, she quickly knew something was off. He ...

When Denise Sparks of Orange County, Florida, discovered a 6-foot alligator lurking outside her home, she was not prepared to handle the situation. Hearing a loud noise, she went outside ...

When a group of cavers visited Dewey Hickman Nature Preserve in Indiana on Sept. 4, they were met with an adventure of a different sort and became rescuers. As they ...

Ozzie is a Czechoslovakian shepherd dog -- a specific German shepherd line -- owned by police officer Drew Canaday. While he's not technically a police K9, he has been through ...

On Sept. 11, 2021, a young man named Robert Powell was walking next to a road in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when a white truck hit him and then sped off. Thankfully ...

Natalie Luvaas understands what it means to see loved ones struggle with health issues, weather countless procedures and hope for better times. A corrections officer in Des Moines, Washington, and ...

The love a good mother has for her children is an unbreakable bond and extends beyond life itself. One very good mother recently made the ultimate sacrifice for her children, ...

Mark Collum of Rowley, Massachusetts, is a commercial fisherman by trade, but after the events that transpired over the last weekend, he can add "hero" to his job description. His ...

Rosa Amonte has worked with the NYC transit system for eight years. She knows the city and her bus well, and that knowledge came in very handy last week when ...

When there's a story about a woman walking a dog near a body of water in alligator country, you can probably figure out what happens next. But a few details ...

L/Cpl. Adam J. Marshall has been a trooper with the South Carolina Highway Patrol since June 2015. He transferred to Troop 5 in the Grand Strand area in September 2019 ...

On Saturday morning, Waverly, Tennessee, experienced significant flooding. Residents were trapped or displaced and many people lost all their earthly possessions, ruined by water. Tyler Stanley and his mother set ...

Emergencies don't wait for first responders to be on the clock. Even when police officers are off duty, they jump in to help when they're needed. Officer Gilbert Troche of ...

Residents at The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society - Mountain View Manor in Eureka, Montana, were treated to an exciting, unprogrammed event on Aug. 10. Those at the Good Samaritan ...

On Saturday morning, shortly after 6:30 a.m., in Camden, New Jersey, witnesses spotted an erratic driver veer off the road after hitting a dip. The car and driver careened down ...

Not many people can say they have saved nine people's lives over their entire career, much less in the span of a year. Not many police officers can boast that ...