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Four of the women wounded in a shooting rampage at a suburban Pittsburgh health club remain hospitalized.
When Steve Marshburn Sr. sees a neighbor mowing his lawn in a thunderstorm, he cringes.When Michael Utley hears someone suggest that the so-called “lightning crouch” will keep them safe, he wants to scream — and sometimes does.
Adult survivors of childhood cancer who most need mammograms and other tests to watch for second cancers are less likely to follow screening recommendations than the general public or even their healthy siblings, a new study finds.
An update on three survivors of the Columbine High attack on April 20, 1999:
The "boy in the window" — who fell bloodied and paralyzed into the arms of rescuers during the horrifying Columbine High shooting rampage — is doing just fine.
Lauren Townsend's parents recently were invited to attend the university graduation of a student who had received a scholarship in their daughter's name.
The haunting strains of "Amazing Grace" ended the public funeral last week for four Oakland policemen killed in the line of duty. But the many families who have heard that music played for their own fallen officers know that the ordeal for survivors was just beginning.
Ellery Chisholm wishes she could forget the bearded man in the red shirt she saw appear at her bedroom door at Pinelake Health and Rehab and point a rifle at her horror-stricken roommate.
Twenty joyful but exhausted sailors stepped off a plane and into the arms of their loved ones Friday — a happy ending to an emotionally searing four-month hijack drama off the coast of Somalia.
When US Airways Flight 1549 splashed down in the icy Hudson River, Mike Berkwits was too busy getting his wife off the slowly sinking plane and out of the swift-moving water to worry about dying.
One minute they were airline passengers. Six minutes later, they were stunned survivors taking on water in the middle of the frigid Hudson River.
Four recent major airline accidents have something in common: Everyone survived.
Shock, relief, gratitude. Most of all, the soaked and freezing passengers of Flight 1549 just seemed amazed to be alive.
The "survivors' staircase" that served as an escape route for people fleeing the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, found a permanent home at ground zero Thursday.
People love zombies. There are zombie survival guides, horror, action, drama, comedy, and yes... even zombie love stories.
Four Dominicans have been charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly helping to organize an illegal boat trip to Puerto Rico that ended in the deaths of 29 migrants.
With the global economy at risk of a deep recession, many battered areas of the economy stand to suffer more damage in coming months. Other industries, though, seem poised to withstand even a severe downturn.
With few places to seek refuge, the wooden schoolhouse seemed as good as anywhere.
China's state news agency says two women have been rescued after being trapped for nearly one week by the massive earthquake that hit the country.
Vignettes of recently rescued survivors of China's May 12 earthquake, whose confirmed death toll rose Tuesday to 40,075:
Children who survive cancer face a much greater risk of heart problems later in life than their brothers and sisters who did not have cancer, new research shows.
Tang Xiaomin had just left her fourth-floor apartment to buy groceries when the building started crumbling around her. An upstairs neighbor was thrown against the kitchen table and grabbed her purse before rushing out. Another resident, who was expecting a baby, was resting and became trapped.
Some survivors arrived half-naked, others wore clothes they scavenged from the dead.
As a survivor, Tom Canavan felt he had to witness the removal of the last sizable remnant of the World Trade Center: the staircase that served as an escape route for him and many others.
Tom Canavan saw the stairs through the smoke after tunneling out of debris that buried him when the World Trade Center's south tower collapsed. The sun fell on a section of gold awning that led him down the stairs to safety on a nearby street.
Brazilian Indians find plane survivors - Indigenous Indians located nine survivors of a plane that crashed in a river in the Amazon rain forest with 11 people onboard, according to the Brazilian air force. The nine passengers were in good health, the air force said Friday.
Ship symbolizes survivors bond between NYC, New Orleans NEW ORLEANS — Peering through thick fog, hundreds stood on the banks of the Mississippi River early Tuesday and cheered as the latest piece of naval history cut through the haze and belched its horn. The onlookers waved flags at the New York, a freshly built 684-foot Navy wars …
Off the Face of the Earth:The remarkable story of a group of Holocaust survivors who hid in one of the world's largest cavesThe night of October 12, 1942, when the Stermers finally ran for good, was moonless and unseasonably cold. The roads in and out of the town of Korolowka, deep in the farm country of western Ukraine, were empty of the cart traffic that had peaked during the fall harvest days.
Invisible Guardians: Angels or a Brain Function?On September 11, 2001, Ron DiFrancesco went to work at Euro Brokers, a financial trading firm on the 84th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, like it was any other day. He was at his desk when the first plane hit the North Tower at 8:46 a.m.
Comparative punishment of child sexual abuse vs. other crimes There's a lot of talk these days about "appropriate" sentences for pedophiles and child abusers. How long should their sentences be or what kind of punishment do they deserve?
Hope for Healing; Information for Survivors of Sexual Assault in DetentionInformation about what sexual assault is, who is sexually assaulted, reactions during and after the assault, coping with trauma, human rights to be free from sexual assault and harassment, and the rights of a survivor, aimed at people (men and women) who are or have been in deten …
If He Is Raped; A Guidebook for Parents, Partners, Spouses and FriendsAbridged pdf version of guide for family, friends and partners of men and boys who have been sexually assaulted. This book focusses on sexual violence committed by men against men, the survivor's possible reactions and needs, and what the people who love him can do to help.
Names Added to Homicide Victims' MemorialThis one is a heart-wrencher. Added was the name of a little boy who captured the heart of the Kentuckiana area when he went missing.
The UN has set aside a day to remember the victims of the HolocaustThat day was today, January 27, 2009. Let us all remember the victims of the Holocaust, and pray that nothing like this can happen again. Now, I know that there are places in the world where ethnic cleansing is happening, as we read.
--House fire in east Toledo kills 2Two children died in a house fire Wednesday morning in the 500 block of White St. near Greenwood in east Toledo, Toledo Fire Chief Mike Wolever told News 11's Dick Berry at the scene of the fire.
Little Boy Orphaned by TragedyA little boy was left to fend for himself after his mother died more than a week ago in the apartment they shared. Video Report INSIDE: Peggy Agar reports from Romulus
I am not saying this as fact, I am not even saying it is what I believe.... but "What if?" The perfect plane landing, in the perfect place, at the perfect time, and EVERYONE survives. Perfect day... President Bush is saying his goodbye the same day.
House Explodes, then Residents Flee :: VideoEight people escaped injury and an inferno when they fled a Kernersville, N.C., home that exploded. More Articles
Overboard: Woman Lost at SeaExcerpt: The U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican authorities are searching for an American woman who went missing on a cruise ship near Cancun, Mexico. Jennifer Seitz, 36, may have gone overboard.
Five years on, hope, beauty return to BamZarah Tahemasebzadeh sings the last stanza with a clear, high voice. Now the song is over but the children stay quiet. The only sound is a low hum from the engine of the bus taking them to their destination. A loose metal plate rattles as the bus bumps over the asphalt.
Christmas at the 'last house standing' - The streets are dark and the town is deserted, but Pam and Warren Adams still put up Christmas lights outside their Gilchrist, Texas, home. It is one of the few remaining after Hurricane Ike devastated the area in September.
Katrina's 'toxic trailer legacy'Thousands of people were made homeless when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and other parts of the US Gulf coast in 2005.
Seeing Sichuan Through the Survivors' Lenses - The China Blog - TIME
How one Mississippi town rebuilds hurricane after hurricaneThese people are real survivors. The residents of Pearlington, MS have been hit by several hurricanes over the years -- Camille and Frederic and Katrina -- but they just keep picking up the pieces and starting over.
Here's an excellent short film by Aish.com about Sherri and Seth Mandell, whose 13-year-old son Koby and a friend where beaten to death with rocks by 4 or 5 Palestinian terrorists.
35W bridge collapse: 'I would just listen to the survivors tell their stories'Marsha Porter wasn't at the site of the collapse. She wasn't in her car, she wasn't on the I-35W bridge, and she didn't end up in the water.
Is Russia Responsible for 1983 Mystery of KAL-007 Disappearance?Captain Mikhail Igorevich Girs, Commander of Soviet submersible Tinro ll, declared, "Submergence 10 October. Aircraft pieces, wing spars, pieces of aircraft skin, wiring, and clothing. But—no people.
China earthquake: Villagers rescued after 16 days - TelegraphForty villagers stranded on a remote mountainside by the Sichuan earthquake for 16 days have been plucked to safety by helicopter.
When Nature Turns Savage, Like the Dogs of WarThe doctor told the 10-year-old boy his legs would have to be sawed off. Although trapped in rubble, the boy refused. "If you have to cut off my legs, I want to die," he said. "I don't want to live without my legs."
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