emergencies and accidents

On Wednesday morning, bystanders in Jersey City, New Jersey, watched as a man plunged nine stories to the ground. It was a fall that would have killed most -- but ...

On Friday night, a 17-year-old valet at Cafe Mawal in Houston allegedly made some decisions that led to heartbreak for three families. According to KTRK-TV, Houston police said valet Ahmedal ...

Vicky Goodson from Charlotte, North Carolina, was told she couldn't have children. The 40-year-old is a cafeteria manager at Starmount Academy of Excellence elementary school, where she gets to see ...

Early on the morning of Sept. 27, Officer David Baker with the Cookeville Police Department in Tennessee and paramedic Justin Remillard met and quickly formed a bond. They now know ...

When Susan Causey of Riverview, Michigan, drove to pick up her 84-year-old husband Ron from the senior center where he'd been playing cards, she quickly knew something was off. He ...

Estifanos Dagne and Rahel Negussie of Colorado Springs were looking forward to Labor Day Weekend this year. They were excited to take their 6-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son to Glenwood ...

A horrible accident took place last week in Sodus Township, Michigan. A 42-year-old father was driving his two sons east on Sodus Parkway on Sept. 20 when he lost control ...

People on the island of Crete, Greece's largest island, were jolted by a large earthquake that rumbled through on Monday at 9:17 a.m. The epicenter of the earthquake was traced ...

Ozzie is a Czechoslovakian shepherd dog -- a specific German shepherd line -- owned by police officer Drew Canaday. While he's not technically a police K9, he has been through ...

When police began to pursue a driver going from Hanover to Henrico in Virginia on Aug. 9, it probably looked like a pretty clear case of DUI to onlookers. The ...

On Sept. 11, 2021, a young man named Robert Powell was walking next to a road in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when a white truck hit him and then sped off. Thankfully ...

Early Wednesday morning, police in Cleveland, Tennessee, started to get calls about people trying to break into cars at an apartment complex. According to a series of tweets from Caroline ...

The recent University of Miami-Appalachian State University game had some heart-stopping moments that didn't involve anything happening on the field. Some fans who attended the game on Saturday were treated ...

The love a good mother has for her children is an unbreakable bond and extends beyond life itself. One very good mother recently made the ultimate sacrifice for her children, ...

"Then after somebody had yelled, 'There's a shark, get out of there,' I realized what it was."

A tragedy occurred in San Francisco Monday afternoon when a woman died after being dragged by a Bay Area Rapid Transit train. According to footage and eyewitness accounts, 41-year-old Amy ...

Mark Collum of Rowley, Massachusetts, is a commercial fisherman by trade, but after the events that transpired over the last weekend, he can add "hero" to his job description. His ...

This has not been a great week for many people in New York City, as storms pelted the area, turning roads into waterways and flooding homes. Cars were stuck and ...

The Bratspis family -- including their dog, Lucy -- from Scottsdale, Arizona, spent the summer in New Jersey. Everything was going well until their return journey. On July 31, the ...

Emily Williams, 16, from Wiggins, Mississippi, is currently recovering from multiple injuries, including a broken leg, a broken wrist and a torn colon -- and yet, she is thankful to ...