A dog that got stuck on cliff high above Portugese Beach in Sonoma County, Calif. was rescued Saturday afternoon after a sheriff's deputy dangling from a helicopter plucked it off a sheer rock face and returned it unharmed to its owner. The black and white Labrador named Oreo somehow made her way about 40 feet down a huge 90-foot high cliff, where there was no way of return.
After having just adopted a puppy three weeks ago from the Humane Society, a Michigan family owes the husky-mix their lives after he alerted them to a gas leak in the middle of the night. His adoptive mom, Jill McLarty, had a cold and couldn't smell the gas streaming from a gas burner left on in the kitchen.
All the Wheel of Fortune player knew was that the answer was a 'thing', it was three words of varying length and started with an NE. Incredibly, Emil, who the host Pat Sajak called a very good puzzle solver, pulled the answer out of nowhere.
While everyone else is complaining about the weather Calvin and Zatera Spencer experienced a March to remember. It sounds like an April Fool's joke, but the Virginia couple really did win the top prize for three different Virginia lottery tickets all within a single month.
When 59-year-old Jeff Taylor saw a nativity scene for sale in a thrift shop that reminded him of the one he loved as a boy, he never dreamed that this cardboard set, missing the lamp and the straw, would turn out to be the exact one that had disappeared from his mother's home three decades earlier.
After almost 70 years, the letters written by a World War II sailor made the final leg of a mysterious journey. On Wednesday they were turned over to 85-year-old Dorothy Bartos Carlberg, the girl for whom the notes were penned.
Even more amazing than David Brenner's wedding ring being found under a Vail chair lift five years after it slipped off unnoticed, is the incredible way he heard that it had been recovered last week.
A baseball player in the Houston Astros minor league, Conrad Gregor, hit his first Midwest League home run on Saturday night and the ball was caught over the right field wall by a familiar face -- his own father.
Found trapped in a cage meant for an opossum by an animal control officer in another state, a small Shih Tzu from Louisiana looked like she'd been through a lot of trouble. But with a little luck an an amazing coincidence regarding the dog's name, the weary pet has left Arkansas and is back with its loving owners.
Dramatic video of a Chinese man catching a young child after he fell from a second story window were released on Friday by Chinese state media.
An 11-year-old saved his grandfather's life thanks to skills he learned playing Grand Theft Auto.
Firefighters from FDNY Rescue 1 were practicing water rescues in Central Park Saturday afternoon when a man appeared in the middle of the lake, fell through the ice, and disappeared.
A tattered vintage sweater from West Point bought at a Goodwill outlet store for fifty-eight cents could fetch more than $20,000 at auction. The sweater belonged to legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, who had served as an assistant coach at the school just before landing his role with the champion Green Bay Packers.
Too good to be true? Experts always tell you there is no such deal. Don't believe them. BMW New Zealand yesterday ran an April Fool's ad in the Auckland Herald saying the first person to walk into the dealership and ask for "Tom" could swap their old car for a new Beemer.
Onlookers cheered rescuers as they pulled a 101-year-old man from beneath the ruins of his house where he was buried for a week after the Nepal earthquake.
The crew aboard a passing German container ship rescued a sunburned and dehydrated South Carolina sailor Thursday, who had survived at sea for 66 days atop his capsized boat, called Angel.
Ever wonder how people get so lucky? It turns out that it's all about having the proper mindset to prepare... be there... express... and say yes!
A recently adopted dog saved a nine-month old infant who had stopped breathing last Sunday. The dog, named Duke, jumped into bed to wake them after sensing the daughter not breathing in her crib.
Not feeling well at work, his boss's suggestion to take a sick day-and see a doctor-saved his life.
Walking arm-in-arm with a woman on the street, a man used perfect timing and a flick of the foot to stop a fleeing suspect for officers near London.
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