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Tortoise Reunited With Owners Weeks After Tornado

Myrtle disappeared after two trees fell on her pen

(Newser) - Myrtle, a pet tortoise, has been reunited with her family in Kokomo, Mississippi, weeks after she disappeared during a tornado outbreak. Tiffany Emanuel, Myrtle's owner, expressed relief and commitment to nursing Myrtle back to health. "He's been through a lot," she said. The family fled...

5 Missing After Boat Capsizes Off Florida

1 person found dead, 4 rescued alive on Sunday

(Newser) - One person has died and five others are missing after a boat capsized off the Florida coast over the weekend. Ten people are believed to have been on the boat, which was found flipped about 30 miles off St. Lucie Inlet on Sunday, per WPEC . One of four people rescued...

Lost Kids, Dogs Pulled From Colorado Storm Drain

Looking for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can be 'very dangerous and even deadly,' authorities warn

(Newser) - Officials are warning children not to go looking for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles after three kids and two dogs had to be rescued from a maze-like storm drainage system in Colorado over the weekend. Authorities were sent searching for the group after they reportedly entered the underground system in...

Man Allegedly Held Captive for Years: 'I Wanted My Freedom'

Stepmom Kimberly Sullivan has been charged in horrific case out of Connecticut

(Newser) - Video has emerged showing the moments when a Connecticut woman accused of holding her stepson captive for decades alerts first responders to his presence. "My stepson is in here!" Kimberly Sullivan says in Feb. 17 bodycam footage shown by CNN and released by local police after they'd...

Man Rescued After 94 Days Adrift: 'I Didn't Want to Die'

Peru's Maximo Napa survived on rainwater, roaches, birds, turtles, and thoughts of his family

(Newser) - He planned to be gone for two weeks. Instead, for 94 days, Maximo Napa floated on the Pacific Ocean, not a soul in sight. Ten days after setting out from southern Peru on Dec. 7, the fisherman was caught in a current and bad weather, which carried his boat—lacking...

She Went Off the Road, Wasn't Found for a Week
Mom of 3 Found a Week
After Crashing Car
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Mar 16, 2025 7:01 AM CDT

Mom of 3 Found a Week After Crashing Car

Indiana's Brieonna Cassell is lucky to be alive, but she could lose her legs

(Newser) - An Indiana woman who apparently fell asleep at the wheel spent six days trapped in her crashed car, its back half immersed in a creek, before her rescue on Tuesday. Johnny Martinez, a tractor operator in Newton County, had spotted what hundreds of other drivers had failed to see: a...

Olympic Skier Needs a Rescue at Sea
Olympic Skier Gets Lost at Sea
Mar 13, 2025 7:21 AM CDT

Olympic Skier Gets Lost at Sea

Croatia's Ivica Kostelic was rescued from Adriatic Sea while kayaking

(Newser) - An Olympic silver medalist may want to stick to the slopes after a kayaking trip gone awry in the Adriatic Sea. Per Reuters , former Croatian ski champion Ivica Kostelic was rescued Monday by the armed forces of Montenegro, after a search effort that involved patrol boats and a helicopter. The...

Cargo Ship, Oil Tanker Crash, Leading to 'Massive Fireball'

At least 32 hurt in collision off the coast of England; search and rescue is underway

(Newser) - An oil tanker and a cargo ship collided off the coast of eastern England on Monday, setting both vessels on fire and triggering a major rescue operation, emergency services said. At least 32 people were brought ashore, but their condition wasn't immediately clear. Martyn Boyers, chief executive of the...

Their First Thought After Falling 800 Feet: Panic

Hikers were stranded for 3 days after fall down snowy cliff in California mountains

(Newser) - Two hikers who were stranded for days after falling down a snowy cliff in California say they had they same thought as they tumbled around 800 feet: "Panic." Veda Lin and Christopher Ng were seriously injured in the fall down Tahquitz Peak in the San Jacinto mountains but...

He Heard Barking Under His Floor. Then, an 'Amazing' Find

Apparent stray was rescued from beneath Texas home, then found a family

(Newser) - After hearing a dog's distant barks and whimpering for several days, a renter of a duplex in Longview, Texas, placed a call to animal control that ended up saving the animal's life. The unidentified renter had started to sense the sounds weren't coming from a neighbor's...

Rower's Trans-Pacific Feat Is Sunk, Just Days From End

Aurimas Mockus, 44, rescued after being stranded by tropical cyclone on his US-to-Australia journey

(Newser) - Since October, when he launched off the shores of California, Aurimas Mockus has been rowing for up to 12 hours a day in his solo quest to cross the Pacific and reach Australia without stopping. Now, that 7,500-mile mission has come to an end, with a frustrating finish for...

2 Weeks After Sinkhole Swallowed Truck, Japan Locates It

It appears the driver is still inside the cab

(Newser) - Two weeks after a giant hole opened up on a Japanese street and swallowed a truck and its 74-year-old driver, rescue crews have managed to locate the truck's cab in a 16-foot-wide sewer pipe nearby. As the BBC reports, rescuers had previously pulled the truck's bed from the...

They Were 34 Feet From the Trail, Needed a Rescue

Experienced hikers rescued after being trapped in waist-deep snow on Mount Washington

(Newser) - The two friends had hiked New Hampshire's challenging Mount Washington trail a month ago. They returned and did it again Sunday after trekking through neighboring peaks in the White Mountains. Both veteran hikers, the women were an hour behind schedule on their descent and losing daylight, but they had...

She Rescued Dog That Fell Through Ice, Then Got Stuck

Police do a double rescue on frozen lake in Holts Summit, Missouri

(Newser) - A Missouri kayaker who saved a dog that had fallen through the ice on a frozen lake ended up needing rescue herself. Per UPI , police and animal rescue staff helped retrieve the woman on Wednesday from her icy trap in Holts Summit, after she'd plucked the poor pooch out...

Lost Hiker Survives 13 Days on 2 Granola Bars

An 'incredible outcome' for Australia's Hadi Nazari, found in Kosciuszko National Park

(Newser) - He was hiking with friends in Australia's Snowy Mountains region, then suddenly he wasn't. Hadi Nazari, 23, had stopped to take photos while exploring Kosciuszko National Park on Boxing Day and failed to meet his companions at a campground later that day, per the BBC and Guardian . Thus...

Man Buried by Avalanche: 'Most Violent Thing I've Ever Felt'

Hunter Hansen is rescued by his own brother after being smothered by snow in Utah's Logan Canyon

(Newser) - Two brothers were lucky to make it to Christmas after a Tuesday avalanche nearly took out both of them. Hunter and Braeden Hansen were enjoying a Christmas Eve backcountry adventure on their snowmobiles in Utah's Logan Canyon, near the Idaho border, at about 8,400 feet elevation, per a...

174 Rescued After a Colorado Ski Lift Cracks

Skiers, snowboarders had to be painstakingly rescued gondola by gondola

(Newser) - Officials were investigating what caused a crack in a Colorado ski lift that forced the evacuation of over 170 stranded skiers and snowboarders. The gondola lift at Winter Park Resort, about 70 miles west of Denver, automatically stopped when it detected the crack in a structural piece of the lift...

After Fall, Speleologist Said She'll 'Never Enter a Cave Again'
After Fall, Speleologist Said
She'll 'Never Enter a Cave Again'
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Dec 21, 2024 6:00 AM CST

After Fall, Speleologist Said She'll 'Never Enter a Cave Again'

Ottavia Piana, 32, rescued in 75-hour operation in Italy

(Newser) - "She's speaking very little, but said she would never enter a cave again." That's what an Alpine rescue medic said of Ottavia Piana, a speleologist—that's a scientist who studies caves—who was on Wednesday rescued from the Italian cave where she had sustained serious...

Rescuers in Italy Scramble to Free Trapped Cave Explorer

Expert spelunker Ottavia Piana has been trapped since Saturday night after fall in Bueno Fonteno cave

(Newser) - A major rescue operation was underway Monday northeast of the Italian city of Bergamo to free a woman considered an expert spelunker who was blocked in while exploring a cave with eight others. Ottavia Piana is trapped deep inside the Bueno Fonteno cave, reports the AP , where the temperatures were...

Woman Lost for Days in Wilderness Is Found
Lost Hiker's Shelter Hid Her
From Search Crews' Cameras
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Dec 15, 2024 6:30 AM CST

Lost Hiker's Shelter Hid Her From Search Crews' Cameras

64-year-old found in Oregon state park on Sunday after hearing helicopters overhead

(Newser) - A hiker lost in an Oregon state park for nearly two days without proper survival gear was found safe Sunday by rescue crews. The 64-year-old woman, who was not identified, had become separated from her foraging group inside Shore Acres State Park on Friday. Aware that she did not have...

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