A family of five lost everything in their Oklahoma home in a fire Tuesday but they survived and escaped with just minutes to spare thanks to an old pit bull named Baby. The dog would not stop barking and pouncing until the woman woke up to see the danger getting closer. Not only did Baby save the family, she went back into the house to gather up the other five dogs still inside, dragging them out one by one.
Twitter and the kindness of strangers brought home an Irish mom with dementia, after her daughter decided to post her photo when she'd gone missing.
A huge orca pod showed-off for whale watchers in Active Pass off the shores of Galiano Island in Canada. They posted the video on YouTube.
A chihuahua puppy has become Japan's latest heart-throb after he was born with a heart-shaped mark on his coat. The dog, named Heart-kun, was born in May to a breeder and pet shop owner, who believes the puppy has brought her luck. She's even won the lottery.
What if you accidentally dumped something in the trash bin that was worth $10,000? Would you swim in a pile of waste to find it? After he mistakenly tossed out his wife's engagement ring, one husband didn't think twice.
A store clerk's mistake led to a $25 million lottery win for an unemployed Georgia woman. Kathy Scruggs, 44, asked for the sale of a Mega Millions ticket, but when she was handed a Powerball drawing along with the first ticket, she accepted them both.
A U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. who just returned from Iraq won a million dollars from a scratch-off lottery ticket, at a time when he and his bride were struggling to buy a home.
A little girl's Christmas wish is coming true after a letter to Santa soared 684 miles on two little pink balloons, landing on a rural California ranch. The rancher, who recognized the tattered letter written in Spanish as a note to Santa, traveled 50 miles to the nearest shopping mall to find gifts for the girl whose parents have fallen on tough times.
A teenager in Scotland won a whopping £53,000 on the National Lottery - all because his mum told him to tidy his room. He unearthed 12 old tickets in his drawer and was going to throw them away but at the last minute had a strange feeling that he should get them checked.
A Boston cat miraculously survived a fall from a 19th floor apartment window, walking away with only minor bruising. The feline's owner, who left the window open a crack before leaving for work, says that the white cat luckily landed on a small patch of grass and mulch.
A hiker in the hills found a Pablo Picasso lithograph worth tens of thousands of dollars. It had been missing since teens broke into a California mansion, home of a Ukrainian diplomat.
Bethel, Alaska is a town so remote that it has a total of zero fast food restaurants. No Burger King. No McDonalds. No KFC chicken. That's why residents were thrilled when flyers circulated around town about a new Taco Bell arriving. The joy, however, turned into disappointment. The flyers were a hoax — the result, police say, of a feud between two residents. But all was not lost.
A miracle mum saved her baby daughter from being crushed to death when she outran a 32-tonne lorry - seconds before it demolished her home. Jen Whitelam, 23, was halfway out of her front door with one-year-old Bella, when she spotted the out of control truck careering towards her.
While her husband waited for her to arrive at the hospital, Canadian mom Carolyn Murdoch was in the middle of a dramatic delivery at 4:33 a.m. Sunday in the back seat of her Honda Accord.
On a sight-seeing trip with her family to Vancouver, Dr. Nas Rafi got to put her emergency-room skills to the test in a venue where usually only EMT caregivers shine -- on the streets amid the chaos of a car accident. It's lucky for the cyclist that the San Diego doctor was nearby. In the next minutes she would save her life.
When a volunteer first saw the flame-scarred nest west of Utah Lake he thought there was no way the eaglet could have survived. Mr. Keller climbed through the scorched landscape on June 28 to document the loss of the nest and unfledged baby. While standing there, taking in the devastation, Keller noticed a set of eagle legs behind a burned tree at the base of the cliff.
A 51-year-old man was cleaning out the contents of an old house that belonged to his grandfather and found a soot-covered box that had been tucked away in the attic for a hundred years. Inside he found hundreds of new baseball cards bundled with twine, including 16 mint-condition 'Ty Cobbs'. They remained untouched for a century, making them perhaps the most significant sports card find in history.
An 82-year-old veteran from Cary, N.C. traveling through O'hare Airport had no idea he was about to fall, literally, in a life-threatening accident involving his luggage and an escalator. A traveling salesman who happened to be in the right place at the right time potentially saved his life with product samples that can stop severe bleeding.
A South African couple married this week after a bout of unusually cold weather allowed them to fulfill a light-hearted promise to tie the knot the next time Johannesburg was covered in snow. A radio station jumped into action to help pull off the spur-of-the-moment pledge.
A shivering local artist in North Carolina ran to the thrift store to get a sweater during an outdoor showing of her artwork. While there, she spied 2 large paintings for $10, perfect items to paint over and thus save herself the expensive cost of wholesale canvas.
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