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Heroic Bus Driver Catches Girl After Three-Story Plunge

Don Deane — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:30:23 +0000

A bus driver became a hero on Monday when he caught a seven-year-old autistic girl in his arms after she fell three stories from a building in New York City. The remarkable rescue was caught on tape. MTA bus driver Stephen St. Bernard was walking home from work yesterday when he noticed a commotion outside [...]

Want to Know How Words with Friends Helped Save a Man's Life? [VIDEO]

Danny Gallagher — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:45:15 +0000

The popular iPhone game Words with Friends can do just about anything: make people smarter, bring people together, even make Alec Baldwin seem even kookier than he already is. Now, it’s literally saving lives.

Watch Plane Crash Survivors Get Rescued From a Ferris Wheel [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:00:53 +0000

Four people recently found themselves in a precarious situation when a plane crashed into a ferris wheel at a rural festival in Australia, trapping two men in the plane and two children on the ride, MSNBC reports. All four individuals were trapped for several hours. Fortunately, rescuers managed to free everyone from the twisted wreckage [...]

Baby Great White Shark Rescued By Brave Surfers [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Typically, surfers will do just about anything to avoid a great white shark. But compassion entered into the picture when a baby great white shark washed up on shore in Venice Beach, Ca. over the weekend. Felled by a fisherman’s hook, the baby shark’s future looked bleak as it flayed around on the sand. That’s when [...]

Brantley Gilbert Shares the Story of the Dog He Rescued, Alley

Jeff Giles — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:00:16 +0000

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The old line about country music is that it’s all about trucks, women, and dogs. And like most jokes, although it overstates the situation, it does include a nugget of truth.

Take, for instance, country newcomer Brantley Gilbert. His latest single, ‘Country Must Be Country Wide,’ is currently shooting up the charts, giving him his first hit — but that isn’t as important to him as his relationship with Alley, his pet pit bull.

Brad Pitt Rescues Woman from Getting Trampled on Set of 'World War Z'

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:00:19 +0000

In the upcoming zombie apocalypse movie ‘World War Z,’ Brad Pitt’s character tries to save earth from the brain eaters. On the set of the film, Pitt played hero in a more modest, but also more signficant way. Pitt was shooting a scene in Glasgow, Scotland, in which a mass of people flee an onslaught of undead. [...]