After 3 1/2 days searching for his dog across the mountain trails in Santa Fe, N.M., camper Mike Stotts decided he had to accept what park rangers and fellow campers had been telling him: That no 15-year-old house dog with diminished hearing could survive that long without food or water among the coyotes and mid-August heat.
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Nick Ruth has been playing the Lottery for just over a year, but this past Friday, he said it "just felt right." Following that intuition made him $250,000 richer. The young winner, who has been in remission from leukemia for seven years, said: "As a cancer survivor, it is really important for me to give back. I want to ‘pay forward' what some wonderful local organizations did for me.
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College football star Mark Herzlich was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in his left leg in 2009. But, the 2008 ACC Defensive Player of the Year beat the disease, and now, that the Giants have officially hired him to join the team, he is the feel-good story of the summer.
At 108 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer is the world's oldest survivor of the holocaust. During WWII she survived a Nazi concentration camp in Prague while most of her family was exterminated. But through it all she was smiling and thankful and looked for the good.
After 3 1/2 days searching for his dog across the mountain trails in Santa Fe, N.M., camper Mike Stotts decided he had to accept what park rangers and fellow campers had been telling him: That no 15-year-old house dog with diminished hearing could survive that long without food or water among the coyotes and mid-August heat.
A man was incredibly lucky to be alive after his car flipped into a river near the Idaho-Washington border. The 20 year-old squeezed through the rear seats and into the trunk of his two-door Hyundai Tiburon as chill, fast-flowing waters engulfed all but 6 inches of head room, creating a life-saving air pocket.
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