Heroes

The Randall Children’s Hospital in Portland, Ore., was encased in superhero powers on Tuesday after a slew of window washers descended upon the building dressed as superheros. Employees of Millennium Building Services, a company who has been washing the hospital’s windows for 22 years, decided that they would make their next call of duty a ... read more »

A 9-year-old girl who miraculously survived a car crash that claimed the life of her father early Sunday morning, walked a mile to seek help after her father was killed in a car crash. California Highway Patrol (CHP) said the girl was able to climb out of a mangled 2010 Ford Escape which had plummeted ... read more »

A prison work crew in Hazel Dell, Wash. came to the rescue of three brothers after they heard screaming coming from a raging river near where they were assigned work detail last week as part of their prison term. One inmate, Nelson Pettis from Larch Corrections Center, said, “We just thought it was some kids ... read more »

A work-at-home Ga. mother of two shot and seriously injured a home intruder on Friday after a man forced himself in to the woman’s home. The Walton County Sheriff’s office noted in a report that the mother heard her doorbell ringing while witnessing someone knocking at the door. The woman says she didn’t recognize the ... read more »

An 11-year-old boy is credited on Monday with saving the life of a schoolmate, 10-year-old Zachary Sanchez, after he fell out of a tree. Andre Key, the boy who saved Sanchez, was waiting for his school bus on Dec. 7 when Sanchez fell out of a tree he had climbed earlier. The boys were waiting ... read more »

Merrily Fugate, an Oregon City, Oregon, Grandmother, was devastated when she went out to her gift-filled-car this weekend, after finishing up some shopping, only to find that all her gifts had been stolen. Fugate, whose first name honors her birthday — a day after Christmas, said while she doesn’t have a lot to spend on ... read more »

A one-year-old Chicago toddler was riding the Ferris Wheel at Chicago’s Navy Pier on Monday with his mother when he started choking.  The baby’s mother, Sanovia Parks, was terrified, not knowing what she could do while the ride was still going and how to properly respond to the boy’s critical life and death needs. The ... read more »

A mother, walking across the street in Aurora, Colorado, with her three children, was saved by an off-duty police officer, another police officer and several civilians when the woman and her toddler were struck by a vehicle Monday night. The accident happened as a mother, her 2-year-old daughter and her 4-year-old twins crossed a busy ... read more »

Katherine Schell, a 4-year-old Kansas City girl is helping to supply children in storm ravaged NYC with stuffed animals in effort to soothe their sorrow and loss. After Katherine told her mother that she was “worried about the kids that lost their animals”, her mother helped Katherine devise a way of replacing child victim’s toys. ... read more »

A Tinley Park, Illinois, teen has a lot to be thankful for after a close call he experienced early Halloween when his car stalled on the Metra train tracks. Bill Anetsberger, 17, was late to school so he neglected to put gas in his car last Wednesday. A power outage the night before failed to ... read more »

The funeral for Glen Doherty, 42-years-old, the Navy SEAL who was murdered in a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya last week, was held on Tuesday with the presence of a very unexpected guest. Jonathan Arcuri, 9-years-old, walked down to the funeral from his home in Winchester, Massachusetts, where the funeral was being ... read more »

A West Georgia Technical College student was given a car by a Good Samaritan after she saw a news broadcast about his long, 15 mile round trip trek to and from his college classes. Branden Whitehead, 20, reportedly walked to and from college classes some 15 miles away. The journey took him 4 1/2 hours to ... read more »

Alice Aho celebrated her 104th birthday as an active grandmother and great-grandmother, showing her family that she’s still up for a great adventure. Aho reportedly told her daughter-in-law that she wanted to scale Mount Hood in Oregon for her 104th birthday, as a homage to her younger days, before she had children, when she and ... read more »

While mother Shaleema McCree was helping her young son go to the bathroom, her 7-year-old autistic daughter, Keyla, was pushing out a piece holding an air conditioning unit in the window of the family’s 3rd story Coney Island apartment. The little girl was able to wiggle her way through the tiny opening. Witnesses informed the ... read more »

Heather Town, a Florida mother of three, made the ultimate sacrifice to save her three-year-old daughter during a violent tornado on Sunday night. The mother and daughter were tossed from their mobile home by the tornado. Town was found covered in barbed wire and debris in a wooded area near her home, still clutching her ... read more »