Talk about the power of social media! One family is thanking the quick spreading of a photo of their newborn baby’s kidnapper with reuniting them with their child just a few hours later. Melissa McMahon and Simon Boisclais had just welcomed their baby girl Victoria into the world when they began living a real-life nightmare….
This story of a stray dog and her seven puppies who were rescued by a troop of National Guard soldiers is very touching. It began when Sheba, the mother dog, wandered onto the soldiers’ base in Afghanistan and soon became a beloved friend and mascot to the soldiers. She bravely chased away other strays from…
A British mother is condemning the cruel pranksters who put superglue on a McDonald’s toilet seat after her 4-year-old unwittingly sat on it. Mother Nicole Langmead and her 4-year-old daughter, Kaya, were enjoying a meal at McDonald’s only have have her daughter hurt by the cruel prank. Kaya went to the washroom while Nicole waited…
Whether or not you believe in angels, this next story will give you hope. Colleen Banton’s 14-year-old disabled daughter, Chelsea, was in hospital with pneumonia and her family believed that they would soon be saying goodbye forever. But that night, something happened that the doctors and nurses could not explain. An hour after Chelsea’s life…
A Las Vegas homeowner was so exasperated by the rash of packages being stolen from doorsteps in his neighborhood that he decided to do something to get back at the thieves. Eric Burdo exacted his revenge by placing a package on his doorstep filled with dog poo. He set out his poopy box on his…
This is a wonderful story about preparing in advance for a family. It’s also one for the record books. In Australia, a 6-month-old baby has made it into the Guinness World Records, as he was conceived from the world’s oldest sperm. His father Alex Powell had overcome Hodgkin’s lymphoma disease as a teen but was…
Photos of an injured soldier and his military working dog sharing a hospital room (and a bed) have gone viral after they were posted online a few days ago. “One of our Military Working Dogs, Rocky, and his handler were injured this week during operations in Afghanistan,” the 89th Military Police Brigade shared on Facebook….
A woman who disguised herself as a nurse and tried to kidnap a baby from a hospital’s maternity ward was thwarted by the infant’s grandmother. The kidnapper – named in media outlets as “Su” – had dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and entered the nursery at a hospital in south-western China’s Sichuan Province. She…
What started as a sad story of a service dog missing for almost a week, turned into an emotional moment when his owner spotted him a half a mile away while on camera with a local news crew. Jason and Carolyn Cooper were being interviewed by LEX 18 News and pleading with the public for…
It was a sad day for the Houston Police Department earlier this week when a police horse was struck and killed while out on duty. Charlotte, a police horse for four years, was patrolling the city streets with Officer D. Herrejon when she was startled by a cement truck. Charlotte panicked and bucked the officer…
There are some Christmas gifts that a child will remember for a lifetime. In this video, the Perks family give their foster son a small gift box, which he opens in front of the other kids. Inside he finds his official adoption papers (and those of his two younger siblings); they came just in time…
A simple hair tie around your wrist isn’t something you think would pose a danger to your health, but for one woman in Kentucky it caused a dangerous infection that landed her in ER. Audree Kopp had bought a set of glittery elastic hairbands and like many young women, kept one around her wrist for…
Police in Compton, California have just rescued a newborn girl buried alive after locals reported hearing cries near a riverbed. Two siblings out for a walk heard the infant crying and called police. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department released a statement on Saturday November 28, 2015, saying that they found the infant covered in…
While many pet lovers know the horrors of puppy mills, few consider that other pet animals, such as guinea pigs, hamsters and rabbits, can also endure horrible living conditions before they end up at pet retailer for sale. A PETA eyewitness working at Holmes Farm, a massive animal mill in Pennsylvania that supplies small animals…
A Hawaii newborn baby born with an abnormally small head this week has been confirmed to have microcephaly and had been infected with the Zika virus. It is thought to be the first cases of its kind reported in the United States. The infant’s mother visited Brazil in May 2015 and likely contracted the virus…
More than 100 armed officers stormed a flat in Saint-Denis, Paris Wednesday morning (Nov 18), believing the Paris massacres’ mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was holed up inside with six other ISIS terrorists. Among the police was 7-year-old police dog named Diesel. Diesel was sent in to the building to sniff out booby traps and assess the…
As the world reels from the terrorist attacks in Paris, so too Lebanon is suffering after Beirut was rocked by twin suicide bombings. Just hours before the attacks in Paris, two suicide bombers went to a popular marketplace at rush hour, intent to kill as many people as they could. The blasts took 43 lives…
After horrific terrorist attacks on Paris on Friday night, this is how the world responded… “When Paris turned out its lights, the rest of the world turned them on.” Brazil Auckland, New Zealand Niagara Falls Shanghai, China Poland Moscow, Ostankino Tower Dublin, Ireland India Mexico Sydney, Australia Dallas, Texas Toronto, Canada San Francisco, USA Liberté,…
Johnnie Hodges Sr. never wanted to leave his house but the 90-year-old World War II Navy veteran was forcibly evicted after he could not make his loan payments. He had spent his saving and went into debt caring his late wife, Flora, who had Alzheimer’s. The proud veteran was so adamant about caring for Flora…
John Shear worked at Santa Anita Race Track for 50 years. On one fateful day at the track in 2011, the 90-year-old would become an unexpected hero. John spotted a runaway horse charging toward the barrier and straight towards a 5-year-old girl standing on the sidelines. That’s when he quickly acted to shield the girl…
A police dog from Canton, Ohio is being remembered for his bravery and service after he passed away from his injuries after being shot three times in the line of duty. Jethro and his handler Officer Ryan Davis were responding to a burglary alarm with fellow offiers when they confronted a 22-year-old armed robber and…
The photo is heartbreaking to see – a Great Pyrenees standing watch over his fallen companion who was hit and killed by a car on a Dallas highway. Samuel Flores was driving by when he saw the dogs and he immediately snapped the pictures and posted them to a social media page for local animal…
Police call them “sliders” but do you know who they are? Police across the United States are warning car owners of car thieves sneaking into cars at gas stations and stealing purses from unsuspecting victims! The thieves wait for the person to get out of their car to pump gas, before “sliding” into the car….
Two best friends were reunited after their boat capsized off Victoria in Australia. Alfonse Attard, a 75-year-old fisherman was rescued but was grief stricken when he thought he had lost his beloved dog Jack. When a nearby fishing boat came to rescue Attard and brought him safely to shore, he urged them to search the…
A family has a scary warning to share with parents after they had a chilling experience while operating a baby monitor inside their 3-year-old son’s bedroom. The parents, Sarah and Jay, discovered a stranger had hacked into their son’s baby monitor, was spying on their boy and sometimes speaking disturbing messages, according to Fox19 News….
Justice has been served for a small dog who was found with his muzzle taped shut and his legs bound. The man responsible has plead guilty and will spend 2 years in prison. The tiny dog was found by a Good Samaritan behind a Canadian shopping center on December 17, 2015. The Patterdale terrier was…
A heartbreaking story out of Jacksonville, Florida demonstrates the unwaivering loyalty dog have towards their humans. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded to the call of a woman who had died after she was apparently struck and killed by a large vehicle on a suburban road. Kelly Black, 42, was walking her dog, Paco, when she was…
Imagine being trapped inside your own body unable to speak or move. Imagine you have a one-month-old baby and your doctors are telling your family that they recommend allowing you to die! This nightmarish situation happened to Nissa Smith. In 2001, the Utah mother of three was nursing her one-month-old baby when she suddenly collapsed….
Tim Tawater was on his way to a party when he saw smoke pluming from a house and felt compelled to help. He ended up risking his life to save a dog that belonged to a family he never had met. He didn’t know it at the time, but someone was filming his heroic actions…
They were separated at birth and it took 70 years to bring them back together. George Skrzynecky and Lucian Poznanski, 69, were born in Germany after their Polish mother was sent to a forced labor camp at the end of World War II. She fell ill and could not care for them, so they were…
After a K9 officer named Krijger was shot and killed on Monday during a shootout in Norfolk, Virginia, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper donated enough money for the Norfolk Police Department to purchase ballistic vests for all their police dogs. Krijger may have survived the shooting if he had been wearing one of the life-saving, bulletproof…
Most people would curse a shark if it attacked them, but Eugene Finney says he will be forever thankful. Eugene was vacationing with his family in California and enjoying a day at the beach when he felt something hit his back with tremendous force. He was disoriented and in pain and swam back to the…
Talk about super-strength! Charlotte Heffelmire may only be 5’6 and 120 pounds but the soft-spoken 19 year old from Northern Virginia heroically lifted a pickup truck off her father to save him and her family from a dangerous fire. Charlotte came to the rescue when her dad, Eric Heffelmire, got into trouble while working on…
While out for his morning walk with his dog, Bobby, Jeff Kopp took a different route than the usual because Bobby insisted they go that way. Jeff soon discovered why. Bobby began frantically sniffing a patch of grass and Jeff went over to discover it was a newborn baby with her umbilical cord still attached!…
SeaWorld San Diego has been told it can only expand its facility if it stops breeding orcas. The California Coastal Commission unanimously approved the sea park’s $100-million Blue World project conditional on new terms that would not only ban captive whale breeding at the facility but also restrict the movement of whales in and out…
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