HOUSTON (AP) — High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in murky water. Others prepared to evacuate their property. A wide region was swamped from Houston to rural East Texas, where game wardens rode […]
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A premature Palestinian infant, rescued from her mother’s womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike, has died, her uncle said Friday. Sabreen Jouda died in a Gaza hospital on Thursday after her health deteriorated and medical teams were unable to save her, said her uncle, Rami […]
Thirty-three kayakers on Tennessee’s Nickajack Lake, some of them children, were rescued this week after getting stranded near a cave by high winds and choppy waters. At 8:24 p.m. local time Monday, the Haletown Volunteer Fire Department responded at the lake, with assistance from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, […]
After a collision Friday sent her truck dangling off the Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky, a first responder was lowered by a crane to rescue the truck driver. The crash, which happened at around 12:04 p.m., left the Sysco truck, hanging precariously off the side of the bridge. “She held it together like a […]
A California man was rescued from the side of a cliff Tuesday, two days after he got trapped after rolling off the road in an attempt to avoid hitting some deer. The rescued man, who was not named by authorities, left his workplace at the Post Ranch hotel in Big Sur, California, at about 11:30 […]
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military said it rescued two hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip early Monday, marking a small but symbolically significant success in its quest to bring home more than 100 captives believed to be held by the Hamas militant group. The two men were rescued from a residential building […]
A privately owned kangaroo escaped from its owner and got stuck in the pool section of a Tampa, Florida, apartment complex. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office corralled the marsupial. On Thursday, the sheriff’s office received notice about the Australian animal hopping around. “I guess police? There’s a kangaroo in my, uh, apartment complex,” the unnamed […]
HOUSTON — It was just another routine day of inspecting shipping containers at the Port of Houston for U.S. Coast Guard officer Ryan McMahon when he and his team thought they heard barking coming from inside one of the thousands of containers that surrounded them. “Oh, it’s scratching, dude,” one of the inspectors said in […]
Twenty-three skiers and snowboarders had to be rescued in frigid temperatures on Saturday after becoming lost in the backcountry in Killington, Vermont, police said. After a call came in around 2:30 p.m., search and rescue crews hiked, snowshoed and used skis with skins to travel about 5 miles to bring a group of 21 lost […]
RED LAKE, Minnesota — More than 100 people stranded while fishing on an ice chunk that broke free on a Minnesota river were rescued Friday, authorities said. The anglers were on an ice floe in the southeastern area of Upper Red Lake in Beltrami County – about 200 miles (322 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis – […]
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