Feeds
Nine years after she made headlines for surviving three days trapped in her car after it flipped off a highway some 45 feet into a swamp, the legend of Tillie Tooter only grows. Spry and straight-talking at 93, she still drives herself around, revels in the joys of being a new great-grandmother, and is a hit on the speaking circuit in Florida retirement communities.
It’s been a long time coming, but Aron Ralston can’t wait to meet the little boy he says saved his life. Trouble is, he isn’t expected to be born for nine weeks.
For Charla Nash, victim of a savage mauling by a chimpanzee, life goes on despite odds no one would ever want to confront. After her friend’s 200-pound chimp Travis savagely attacked her on Feb. 16, ripping off her eyes, lips, nose and all of her fingers save for a solitary thumb, doctors didn’t expect her to survive.
The surveillance video makes your blood run cold. A young mother on a train platform lets go of the stroller holding her 6-month-old son for an instant. As if nudged by an unseen hand, the stroller rolls toward the tracks a few feet away. As the woman scrambles desperately to recapture her precious cargo, the stroller topples off the platform and lands upside-down on the tracks — just as a train rolls into the station at 20 mph.
It was the ultimate rude awakening: A 4 a.m. wake-up call delivered by an automobile in a cascade of noise, debris and hot, leaking engine fluids.
Even though the bungee-jumping company claimed a 100 percent safety record, a nervous Rishi Baveja still said a prayer and made the sign of the cross before launching himself off a 165-foot tower in Thailand.
Michelle Childers, 20, was enjoying a weekend drive with her husband when a tree branch, more than an inch thick and 18 inches long, came through the window and lodged in her neck. Surgeons took six hours to remove it. “I don’t know how I’m still alive,” she said Friday.
An 8-month-old boy and his 21-month-old sister are lucky to be alive after a car smashed into the room where the boy was lying in his crib. The girl would have died had she not been removed from her crib only moments before. “God had a lot to do with this,” said their father.
Endurance runner Jim Williamson, 49, fell into a narrow canyon on Red Mountain in Utah and was stuck there for more than 48 hours before rescuers arrived in a daring helicopter landing. “These guys are top of the heap,” Williamson said of the rescue team.
Tressel Hawkins, one of three Texas boaters who spent eight days clinging to their capsized catamaran, said they experienced hallucinations before a boater spotted them. When one finally did, “My first reaction was, is this really real?” Hawkins said.
James Boyden, 17, was digging in the sand on a Rhode Island beach when the hole he was in fell in on him, nearly smothering him. Rescuers rigged an oxygen tank to keep him breathing until they could extricate him. "It got in my mouth, it got in my lungs," the boy said.
He was controlling, and obsessed with the wife who was ending their marriage. As their bitter divorce was coming to a conclusion, Richard Shenkman kept talking about “The War of the Roses,” the hit movie in which a couple’s divorce battle takes both their lives.
Firefighting brothers John and Joel Rechlitz are somewhat the worse for wear after their amazing rescue of a Tennessee boy trapped in a hell on earth — but they are happy and modest to bear the bandaged wounds of heroes.
A 10-year-old Colorado boy has sworn off wheelies, bunny hops and other stunts he used to do on his BMX bike.
It was no twig the 12-year-old boy held up, but a thick stick, about 9 inches long and as thick as a broom handle. What made it astonishing is that the full length of it had been driven into his neck and down into his chest — through his lung, past vital arteries and his heart.
The odds of being struck by lightning are 700,000 to 1 — but a 14-year-old Oregon boy can tell you that if you decide to walk across an open field during a thunderstorm, they get a whole lot better.
When the shark clamped its jaws on his forearm and wouldn’t let go, Luis Hernandez knew it was going to take a miracle for him to escape with his life.
After drifting helplessly in the Gulf of Mexico for more than a full day, a middle-aged Florida couple had to face a grim truth: If they weren’t rescued soon, they’d end up like the couple in “Open Water,” the 2004 film about a man and a woman who are left behind by their dive boat and end up as shark bait.
For toddler Auston Banks, the difference between life and death amounted to the lack of a pencil sharpener.
All she wanted to do was take a nice walk on a paved path along a creek near her Colorado Springs home. Now, Ashley Swendsen is still trying to figure out how her walk became a national story — and how she came to be portrayed as a villain responsible for the death of an innocent bear.
With his wife in a seemingly irreversible coma, Michael Smith brought his children to Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati to say goodbye to their mother before she was pulled off life support.
On Dec. 27, doctors delivered heartbreaking news to the family of police officer Ken Kirby: He had died of a massive heart attack.
As federal investigators continued their probe into whether a flock of birds caused the pilot of a passenger jetliner to ditch the plane into the icy Hudson River, survivors of Flight 1549 were only too happy Friday to share their stories of survival and thank the heroic crew and rescuers.
Three years after she cheated death in a skydiving adventure gone terribly wrong, Shayna West and her toddler Tanner share a mother-son bond like no other. Unbeknownst to Shayna at the time, Tanner was in her womb when she survived hitting pavement at 50 mph while attempting her first solo parachute jump.
They awoke under car that smashed into homeTrent Wood and Kristin Palmer were asleep when they awoke to find themselves trapped beneath a car that had smashed into their Sparks, Nev., home, with hot fluids leaking onto them. "Your first reaction is: OK, I hope it doesn't blow up," Trent Wood recalled.
They awoke under car that smashed into homeTrent Wood and Kristin Palmer were asleep when they awoke to find themselves trapped beneath a car that had smashed into their Sparks, Nev., home, with hot fluids leaking onto them. "Your first reaction is: OK, I hope it doesn't blow up," Trent Wood recalled.
She survived tree branch that impaled her neckMichelle Childers, 20, was enjoying a weekend drive with her husband when a tree branch, more than an inch thick and 18 inches long, came through the window and lodged in her neck. Surgeons took six hours to remove it. "I don't know how I'm still alive," she said Friday.
She survived tree branch that impaled her neckMichelle Childers, 20, was enjoying a weekend drive with her husband when a tree branch, more than an inch thick and 18 inches long, came through the window and lodged in her neck. Surgeons took six hour to remove it. "I don't know how I'm still alive," she said Friday.
Miracle babies survive car crash into nurseryAn 8-month-old boy and his 21-month-old sister are lucky to be alive after a car smashed into the room where the boy was lying in his crib. The girl would have died had she not been removed from her crib only moments before. "God had a lot to do with this," said their father.
Divers recount 19 hours in shark-infested seasAs day turned to night, Richard Neely and Allyson Dalton clung to each other in a vast ocean, hoping that search crews would find them before the sharks below did. After their ordeal on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the couple are "exhausted, but happy to be alive."
Sailors survive 26 hours in sea without life raftFour student crew members and the captain of a capsized Texas A&M University sailboat are alive after 26 hours in the Gulf of Mexico without a life raft - thanks to a heroic coach and their own survival training.
After 8 days adrift, rescuers seemed like illusionTressel Hawkins, one of three Texas boaters who spent eight days clinging to their capsized catamaran, said they experienced hallucinations before a boater spotted them. When one finally did, "My first reaction was, is this really real?" Hawkins said.
He barely escaped collapsing sand hole aliveJames Boyden, 17, was digging in the sand on a Rhode Island beach when the hole he was in fell in on him, nearly smothering him. Rescuers rigged an oxygen tank to keep him breathing until they could extricate him. "It got in my mouth, it got in my lungs," the boy said.
Boy pierces brain with antler, but miraculously is fineConnor Luke Schick, 5, learned a lesson most parents drill into children the hard way. It took an antler to pierce his brain to get it through Connor's head that running with sharp objects is not a good idea. Fortunately, this story has a happy ending.
To save his life, man cuts off arm with pocketknifeTODAY talks exclusively to Sampson Parker about his life-and-death decision to give up a limb in order to survive a farming accident.
Dolphins save surfer from becoming shark's baitSurfer Todd Endris relives a shark attack that left him severely injured, and how a pod of dolphins formed a ring around him to enable his escape.
Trio ignores wildfire danger to save houseArmed only with shovels and a garden hose, three San Diego-area men fought the wildfires that consumed so many homes, and saved one of them.
Woman: I was held hostage by my ex-husband"The only way this marriage was going to end was by death," is what Nancy Tyler said her ex-husband, Richard Shenkman, told her as she described a terrifying hostage ordeal in which he abducted her at gunpoint, handcuffed her to a wall, and set the house on fire.
Woman: I was held hostage by my ex-husband"The only way this marriage was going to end was by death," is what Nancy Tyler said her ex-husband, Richard Shenkman told her as she described a terrifying hostage ordeal in which he abducted her at gunpoint, handcuffed her to a wall, and set the house on fire.
Boy is OK after tree branch skewered his neckGarret Mullikin, 12, was riding a dirt bike for the first time when he fell off it - and onto a thick tree branch that drove into his neck and through his lung. Now recovering after emergency surgery, he said he feels "a lot better than when I got the stick in my neck."
Boy is OK after tree branch skewered his neckGarret Mullikin, 12, was riding a dirt bike for the first time when he fell off it - and onto a thick tree branch that drove into his neck and through his lung. Now recovering after emergency surgery, he said he feels "a lot better than when I got the stick in my neck."
Dash camera captures cop's close callPolice officer Clint Chrz remembers making a traffic stop. And then he remembers lying facedown in the opposite lane of travel, unable to move. And when you watch the video from his motorcycle, you figure it's a good thing he doesn't remember what happened in between.
Schools jumping on the hug ban-wagonAcross the nation, boards of education are adopting policies limiting or prohibiting most forms of physical contact, even high-fives and innocent signs of affection.
Divers recount 19 hours in shark-infested seasAs day turned to night, Richard Neely and Allyson Dalton clung to each other in a vast ocean, hoping that search crews would find them before the sharks below did. After their ordeal on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the couple are "exhausted, but happy to be alive."
Disney motto helped dad, autistic son survive at seaSwept out to sea with his 12-year-old autistic son Christopher, Walter Marino relied on phrases from Disney movies to help them both survive in the pitch-dark waters overnight. "I kept screaming, 'To infinity ... and beyond!' " Marino said.
Meet the boy who didn't duckIn the history of weaponry, the dull-edged butter knife hasn't ranked high on the list of weapons of choice. But don't tell that to Tyler Hemmert, an 11-year-old Vancouver boy who needed doctors to remove a butter knife from his head.
Dolphins save surfer from becoming shark's baitSurfer Todd Endris relives a shark attack that left him severely injured, and how a pod of dolphins formed a ring around him to enable his escape.
Cheetah mauling victim says she 'assumed risk'Just days after biting Florida conservation center owner Judy Berens on the arms, legs and neck, two cheetahs at a Florida conservation center were back to licking the hands that feed them. And the owner says such incidents merely come with the territory.
Boy pierces brain with antler, but miraculously is fineConnor Luke Schick, 5, learned a lesson most parents drill into children the hard way. It took an antler to pierce his brain to get it through Connor's head that running with sharp objects is not a good idea. Fortunately, this story has a happy ending.
Log In | Register
