Rescue

"As soon as I heard that, I knew what had happened."

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 ...

September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and few people honored that fact as effectively as two officers with the Metra Police Department in Blue Island, Illinois. Sergeant Will Wright and ...

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 ...

When police began to pursue a driver going from Hanover to Henrico in Virginia on Aug. 9, it probably looked like a pretty clear case of DUI to onlookers. The ...

Kids and young animals both have a double dose of curiosity that often gets them into trouble. As they learn the ropes, they can get themselves into all sorts of ...

Early Wednesday morning, police in Cleveland, Tennessee, started to get calls about people trying to break into cars at an apartment complex. According to a series of tweets from Caroline ...

"My heart dropped,"

The recent University of Miami-Appalachian State University game had some heart-stopping moments that didn't involve anything happening on the field. Some fans who attended the game on Saturday were treated ...

On the evening of Sept. 4, 11-year-old Mackenzie Jenkins was sitting on a swing outside her Cape Coral, Florida, home when she spotted something suspicious going on at her neighbor's ...

On Aug. 22, 24-year-old Ruairí McSorley from Londonderry, Ireland, went for a swim in Tralee Bay on the southern Irish coast. And he kept swimming. And kept swimming. McSorley was ...

Last month, a man in Revere, Massachusetts, decided he no longer wanted his dog, a pit bull mix named Killer. Instead of taking him to a shelter or finding him ...

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 ...

On May 27, Sheila Salazar of Fayetteville, North Carolina, welcomed a pit bull mix named Nigel into her home. He'd made it to a local shelter after being rescued from ...

This has not been a great week for many people in New York City, as storms pelted the area, turning roads into waterways and flooding homes. Cars were stuck and ...

The Bratspis family -- including their dog, Lucy -- from Scottsdale, Arizona, spent the summer in New Jersey. Everything was going well until their return journey. On July 31, the ...

The curious case of Anthony "AJ" Elfalak, an Australian toddler who was missing for three days, came to a close Monday when the boy was spotted by air -- but ...

Emily Williams, 16, from Wiggins, Mississippi, is currently recovering from multiple injuries, including a broken leg, a broken wrist and a torn colon -- and yet, she is thankful to ...

On Aug. 24, 14-year-old Lily Swanson of Leyland, Lancashire, England, was out walking her dog Isobel when she sensed danger brewing. She was close to home, on Hough Lane, when ...