A Mississippi sheriff’s deputy drowned Wednesday while saving his 10-year-old son from a rip current off a Florida beach, according to reports. The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that their Director of Search and Rescue, William Nichols, 33, died while vacationing with his family in Fort Walton. Police said that after …
Two Louisiana Dollar General Store employees are being hailed as heroes after they recognized a murder and kidnapping suspect and quietly escorted customers out before locking the wanted man in the store. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office issued a “BOLO” (“Be On the Look Out”) for Neil Broussard, 51, after two teenagers were shot and …
Last week, an Oregon woman reportedly saved a 2-year-old boy who wandered from his grandmother’s home and fell into a canal. Bailey Vardanega recalled driving north on Highway 97 in Redmond on July 7 when she spotted a man flagging down drivers. Moments later, Vardanega witnessed the man’s toddler son running across the highway barefoot …
A Michigan family is relieved and grateful after a Sterling Heights police officer saved their choking baby last week. Officer Cameron Maciejewski, a tw0-year veteran, arrived on the scene and quickly took charge, flipping the 3-week-old girl onto her stomach and getting her to expel the obstruction blocking her air passageway. The mother collapsed in …
A homeless man who saved the life of a Washington, D.C. police officer last week met with his family this week for the first time in eight years, News 4 Washington reported. John Burrows’s niece, Renee DuPerow, saw the report on News 4 on July 2. “I was like, ‘That’s my uncle! He’s alive.’ That …
Other neighbors rescued the boy’s 8-year-old sister, but sadly their mother succombed
A homeless Washington, D.C., man — one of 26 evicted earlier this week from a site in Franklin Square — has now been hailed as a hero after he stopped another man from stabbing a police officer. John Burrows said he saw the attack on Thursday, and it made him angry. “I was really mad …
A retired Missouri police chief shot earlier this month has been laid to rest. Hundreds of people showed up to the funeral, filling a St. Louis church to capacity. CBS4 reports that David Dorn was laid to rest Wednesday at the Saint Louis Friendly Temple on Martin Luther King Drive. Numerous mourners paid their respects …
A New Mexico teen is being called a hero after he found a large sum of cash at an ATM machine and did the right thing. CNN reports that 19-year-old Jose Nuñez Romaniz stopped by an ATM on Sunday to put cash into his account so his grandfather would have enough money to buy socks …
A Minnesota state trooper reportedly gave a doctor working amid the coronavirus pandemic five N95 masks during a routine traffic stop. Dr. Sarosh Ashraf Janjua said in a Facebook post that State Trooper Brian Schwartz pulled her over on March 21. The Massachusetts-based cardiologist is on temporary assignment at a coronavirus quarantine unit in Duluth, …
A 22-year-old man tried to make off with a woman’s three children on Wednesday at a bus stop in Doña Ana, New Mexico, but the attempted kidnapping was foiled by a 16-year-old high school wrestling champion who pinned the man down inside a gas station and held him there until police arrived. Canaan Bower, who …
McDonald’s employees in California reportedly helped save a woman who mouthed “help me” to a worker while in the drive-thru on Christmas Eve. The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that the woman entered a McDonald’s in Lodi on Tuesday afternoon and asked an employee to call 911, providing them with …
