A dog desperately clinging to a wall and trying to stay afloat during Hurricane Eta was saved thanks to dedicated rescuers. Tropical Storm Eta has swept through Central America and Mexico for the past week leaving hundreds dead and thousands of people displaced from their homes due to massive flooding and landslides that have damaged…
Actor Sean Connery has died. The actor who was first to play James Bond on screen died in his sleep on Friday night (October 30, 2020) at his home in the Bahamas. The Scotsman had humble beginnings. He left school and began working at age 13 during WWII in order to help support his family….
A lost toddler was found being protected by a large stray dog on the streets of St. Louis, Missouri after getting out of his father’s home on his own. According to FOX 2, the young boy named Kh’amorion Taylor was wearing his pajamas and wandering down a street on the morning of October 1st with…
A four-year-old girl dining with her mother at the restaurant was saved from a violent attack after an unknown man attempted to grab her. The girl, her mother and another woman were dining at a restaurant in Florida, a town west of Johannesburg, South Africa when a man leapt over the patio’s barricade and attacked…
Heart-stopping videocam footage has been released of a police officer pulling a wheelchair-bound man off of train tracks with just seconds to spare before a train speeds by. Officer Erika Urrea of the Lodi Police Department spotted the man on the railroad tracks on Wednesday morning of August 12, 2020. He appeared to be stuck…
A young man who broke into an elderly woman’s home ended up in hospital after the woman beat him up. 82-year-old Willie Murphy was home alone and getting ready for bed when she heard a man banging her door. He was crying outside her door that he needed an ambulance and was sick. But Murphy…
A pigeon who decided to use the red poppies from the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier to build her nest has caught the world’s attention. The bird made her nest from the red flowers in the alcove of a stained glass window at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The window depicts a wounded…
A man found a large stash of gold coins in Northern Ireland, but he used a metal detector, not a rainbow or leprechaun to locate the treasure. Paul Raynard was looking for a lost wedding ring in a farmer’s field near Ballycastle, Northern Ireland when he detected the coins underground. The coins are estimated to…
A disabled dog named Ping Pong is being hailed as a hero for rescuing a baby buried alive by his 15-year-old mother. The three-legged dog was noticed by villagers in Ban Nong Kham village, north east of Bangkok, Thailand when he was seen digging and sniffing in the dirt. According to Ping Pong’s owner, Usa…
An 18-wheeler’s brakes gave out at the worst possible moment on a mountain highway in Denver recently. But what could have become a deadly incident was averted when the truck driver used a runaway truck ramp just in time. The frightening accident was caught on a now viral video by driver Jesse Terrell, who noticed…
It was a terrifying moment as a young boy dangled dangerously from a chairlift on a popular ski hill in British Columbia on Wednesday. But thanks to a group of fast-thinking young skiers he landed safely. The frightening incident occurred on Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver and was caught on camera by witnesses on a…
A marathon runner ended up winning a different prize after she spotted a lost puppy midway through a race. Runner Khemjira Klongsanun was participating in the Chombueng marathon in Ratchaburi, Western Thailand, when she saw runners dodging a puppy seven miles into the race. Noticing that there were no houses, people or other dogs in…
Just how cold is it in the midwest? With a record-breaking cold front sweeping through the midwestern United States some residents have decided to share some light-hearted photos and videos of their experiences of the cold temperatures. Iowa resident Taylor Scallon shared what the frigid cold is doing to her hair, tweeting “Is Iowa really…
A service dog handler’s footage of a mother angered by being told “no” when she asked if her daughter could pet the dog has gone viral after it was posted on the Internet. Megan Stoff was in a mall in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania training several dogs to be service animals with fellow service dog handlers when…
A family has had a heartwarming reunion with one of their dogs after he was found camping out in what was left of their home burned down by California wildfires. For four weeks, a dog named Madison guarded his former home waiting for his humans to return. When the California wildfires broke out near Andrea…
A puppy is being commended by police for sniffing out a hidden fully-loaded gun in a residential neighborhood. “It’s not every day a puppy sniffs out a fully loaded gun, but that’s exactly what happened Tuesday,” the Greenville Police Department in North Carolina wrote on Facebook. “Officer Edwards and Officer Allen were dispatched to Rosemont…
The U.S. embassy in Australia is apologizing for a “training error” that resulted in an invitation for a cat pajama party being sent out by accident. The embassy in Canberra sent out an email invitation entitled “meeting” to an unknown number of recipients. But what caught everyone’s attention was the attachment – a photo of…
A tow truck driver out to rescue what he thought was a lost dog ended up rescuing the dog’s owner instead. Martin J Hall Jr was driving to a call along a remote dirt road near Coulterville, California when he spotted a dog in the middle of the road, blocking his way. The dog had…
Burt Reynolds has died his agent confirmed on Thursday September 6th. Reynolds passed away after going into cardiac arrest at a Florida hospital. The Hollywood icon was 82 years old. He was the star of films like “Smokey and the Bandit,” “Deliverance,” “Boogie Nights” and many more. Here’s a look back at his life and…
A dog who fled the scene of a fatal car crash has been tearfully reunited with his family 19 days after he went missing. A young Kansas woman shared video of her reuniting with her 1-year-old dog, Bentley, on a mountainside in Colorado, a few weeks after a tragic car crash killed her mother and…
Jeff Jones is a captain of a ship and is used to seeing fish pulled out of the sea. But the captain witnessed a whole other kind of fishing when a family drove off a dock and had to be rescued from their sinking truck. Jones had just come to work to pick something up…
A father and son “drove through hell” to escape a U.S. wildfire that erupted while the pair were on a hike in Glacier National Park in Montana. Charles and Justin Bilton just wanted to enjoy a nice father-son hike on, unaware their excursion would turn into a life-and-death nightmare. In a Facebook post, Justin Bilton…
Legendary R&B singer Aretha Franklin has died at the age of 76, the Associated Press reports. Franklin died at 9:50 a.m. on Thursday August 16, 2018 at her home in Detroit, surrounded by family and friends, according to a statement on behalf of Franklin’s family from her longtime publicist Gwendolyn Quinn. Her death comes three…
A North Carolina mom is speaking out after a mosquito bite sent her 6-year-old son to the hospital for a week. Six-year-old Noah was playing with his siblings when he complained of a headache, which quickly turned into seizures. His terrified family rushed him to hospital where he was diagnosed with La Crosse encephalitis, a…
Sixty cats and dogs are alive and safe thanks to the heroic efforts of Vacaville Police Officers in California after the animal shelter they were housed in was threatened by wildfires. Video footage shows police, staff and volunteers rushing to get cats into cages and leashing dogs, with smoke from the fire ominously approaching in…
Police Officer Jessie Ferreira Cavallo was on her way to work when she spotted a young boy running against traffic and then leap off an overpass on the freeway. She immediately sprung into action. Grabbing her first aid kit, she ran after him. Looking over the side of the overpass, she noticed him lifeless, below….
Seven Newfoundland puppies were discovered living on a desolate island in the middle of a lake in Canada. The rescue of the litter has captured the hearts of people around the world. The puppies were first discovered by a passing boater, who heard yelping coming from the uninhabited island. Volunteers from Norway House Animal Rescue…
A man lying down on train tracks in New Jersey of was just seconds away from being hit by an oncoming train until a police officer intervened and saved his life. Perth Amboy Police Officer Kyle Savoia’s body camera was recording as he frantically ran over to the tracks screaming for the man to move….
A heroic dog kept her warm and comforted her and kept her from going into shock. Navy veteran Brittany Fintel, 32, was hiking to the summit of Washington’s Mount St. Helens with her German shepherd, Indy, when she slipped on ice and plummeted 300 feet down a steep slope. “Once I slipped, I thought I…
Watch the exhilarating moment a drone found a missing mountaineer alive. Rick Allen was on an excursion with his climbing partner when he fell after a solo attempt on the 26,401-foot summit of Broad Peak, the 12th highest mountain in the world. A day after he disappeared on the Himalayan peak, people feared the worst….
A couple smashed a car window to what they thought was a dog in distress. But they ended up saving a stuffed toy. The case of mistaken identity began on a nice summer day in Victoria, BC, when Blake and Marla Handley returned to their car to discover their window smashed in. The first thing…
A team of Egyptian and German archaeologists has discovered an incredibly rare gilded death mask in Egypt that they are calling “a sensation”. “The finding of this mask could be called a sensation,” Ramadan Badry Hussein, a professor at the University of Tubingen in Germany, said at a press conference. “Very few masks of precious…
Homeowner Paula Habib thought it was “no big deal” at first, but when her homegrown tomatoes kept disappearing, she was determined to find what or who was stealing them. She suspected it might be a hungry squirrel, but when she looked at her security camera footage she was shocked to see it was the mailman!…
At least three poachers are believed to have been eaten by lions after they broke into the Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa news outlets are reporting. It’s believed that the men stumbled across a pride of six lions late on Sunday night or early Monday morning. “They strayed into a pride of lions –…
Five seniors are spending their retirement years ensuring that the cannabis plants used for medical marijuana are well tended to in a small rural community. They call themselves the Old Lady Clippers and up to three times a week they don protective suits and set to work clipping and trimming cannabis plants being grown at…
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