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FORT WORTH -- Police said three suspects wearing yellow bandanas robbed customers and cashiers in an Albertson's grocery store in southwest Fort Worth around 11:30 Tuesday night. The husband of an employee was waiting in the parking lot for her when another employee called him from inside the store to tell him the store was being robbed. The husband entered the store with a handgun and confronted one of the robbers, witnesses said. The suspect allegedly pointed his gun at the husband and the husband opened fire. Police said the husband had a concealed handgun permit. All three suspects fled...

Do you remember the ridiculous story we were talking about yesterday, about the apartment employee in Jacksonville? Well here is the link to the news article. Colin Bruley worked for an apartment complex in Jacksonville, FL. He also happened to live in the complex. At 2AM, he heard a woman scream. He grabbed his shotgun and went outside to help the woman. Not knowing where the shooter was ... whether the shooter might come out of an apartment door at any time with his gun .. Bruley and some other residents took care of the screaming woman they found covered...

Last evening about 10:30 or so, my family (ex-wife and 2 children) were involved in a near head-on collision on Hwy 9 north of Windward Parkway in Alpharetta, Georgia. I'm working up here in Richmond, Virginia so I was unable to get there..Instead I got one of those dreaded panic calls. In speaking with my youngest daughter this morning, she said she's ok but pretty bruised up but that a lot of people stopped to help including a nurse and doctor (both passing by the scene of the accident).. If by chance any of those who stopped to help were...

I just wanted to bring to my fellow Freepers a sad story from Colorado about a good samaritan who did what was right but paid an awful price for it. Due to posting restrictions, I could only post the link to the story. Also, if anyone is interested, a donation account has been setup for this man and his family and it's listed in the story. http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=0aef1d1a-0abe-421a-00c6-0ae299642bd3&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

TESTING THE FAITH: New top Episcopal bishop challenged on her resumehttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51325 Tuesday, August 1, 2006 School of theology, priestly experience questioned, but same-sex marriage advocate will lead U.S. church Posted: August 1, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern The newly elected presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church lists as her major qualifications for office positions at two institutions shrouded in mystery and without any formal accreditation – if they exist at all. That's the finding of an investigation of the rise of Katharine Jefferts Schori, 52, a pilot and oceanographer and strong advocate for same-sex marriage and homosexual ordination by Virtue...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Good Samaritan who helped a road accident victim found himself injured and lying in a hospital bed several hours later _ next to the man he'd helped _a news report said Tuesday. Police Sgt. Abdul Kadir Said, 47, had stopped to help victims of an accident involving two motorcycles and a truck in the northern Malaysian state of Kedah on Saturday, the New Straits Times newspaper reported. After putting a splint on victims' broken leg, Abdul Kadir sent him in a van to hospital in Alor Star town before heading back to his police station...

From the "no good deed goes unpunished" file ... Someone stole his pickup while he helped to rescue a mother and her three kids... The good Samaritan stopped ... According to the California Highway Patrol, Santos left his truck running while he scrambled to help the accident victims. ...Santos was cutting the kids free from their seat belts, someone jumped into Santos' truck and drove away... None of the three kids was seriously hurt. And police are still searching for Santos' white Chevy pickup.

The incident began Sunday, when a good Samaritan who stopped to help a car stuck in the ditch smelled alcohol and noticed some venison — uncut and still kicking — in the trunk. She called 911. When the deputy arrived, 20-year-old Ryan Caples was still trying to free the car from the ditch and the doe was still trying to free itself from the trunk, kicking up a clatter... Caples allegedly told police he was a passenger in the car when it hit the deer and careened into the ditch. The driver, identified only as a man named Travis, allegedly...

CARVER, Ore. (AP) — A man drowned in the Clackamas River while attempting to rescue a woman Sunday, the authorities said. The body of Shane Hayden, 21, of Canby was found 200 yards from the Carver boat ramp, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office. Hayden, his brother and two other men jumped in the river to save a 19-year-old woman yelling for help in the swift current. The men pushed the woman toward the shore, but Hayden went under and could not be located. A diver from the Gladstone Fire Department later recovered Hayden's body, the sheriff's office said....

Gunnulf Oterkiil tried to revive a young woman who fainted and lost consciousness after striking her head on the pavement. Later he received a NOK 6,000 (USD 955) fine.Oterkiil refuses to accept the fine that resulted from a chaotic Saturday night in Porsgrunn last September, newspaper Telemarksavisa reports."He is not fined for trying to help, but because he knocked down a man who was interfering," prosecutor and police lawyer Kjell Ove Ljosåk said in Skien and Porsgrunn municipal court on Wednesday, where the matter went after Oterkiil refused to pay."Together with a completely sober friend I was standing on the...

Dave Rountree says he was just trying to be a Good Samaritan when in February he ran over a gun-toting robbery suspect with his car. But when the alleged thief, Christopher Hughes, ended up paralyzed from the waist down, Rountree said his life officially went to hell. Rountree said Monday he is now being threatened with a lawsuit from Hughes, his marriage has crumbled and he's lost his job to boot.

A Harlem nun may think twice about being a good Samaritan after a drunken man allegedly beat her up when she returned his lost keys, but then wouldn't accept a hug in thanks.

Michigan man to be cited for rescuing drivers from lake 2/14/2005, 7:14 p.m. ET The Associated Press SHERMAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Three times within a year, Bob Toppel heard the frightening "thud" of a car splashing into Fish Lake near his home. All three times, he went into the water in the dark of night to assist drivers he didn't know and could barely see. All survived their accidents, at least in part due to his heroism. For his efforts as a good Samaritan, Toppel, a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, will receive a Distinguished Citizen Award for...

A donation Wednesday from a San Jose foundation bailed out the Redwood City Salvation Army chapter from a most unseasonable holiday crime: the theft of 22 red collection kettles containing an estimated $12,000 from the relief organization's offices on Christmas Eve. "I haven't seen something like this before," Redwood City police Detective Eric Stasiak said of the crime. "This is pretty low." While the Brandenburg Family Foundation in San Jose donated $12,000 Wednesday to cover the losses, police are interviewing current and former Salvation Army employees, as there were no signs of forced entry when the Redwood City chapter's business...

VANCOUVER (CP) -- Two Vancouver men have thrown themselves in front of flailing fists or piercing bullets in recent weeks to save women being attacked, but psychiatrists fear their heroism could spark a dangerous copycat phenomenon that may get someone killed. However, one man who hauled an injured woman into his car as her attacker fired bullets, blowing out a window, said it's a sad fact that people are afraid to help each other. In a very rare move, others on the scene drove into the storm of bullets trying to run the shooter down once they saw Don Miller...

A few days after the Fourth of July and a few months after her father died, Omahan Jody Gardner relaxed outside her father's house near Lake Okoboji in Iowa. Exhausted from a long day of settling her father's business, Gardner wearily watched a young man she didn't recognize walk toward her. He asked if she was Jody Gardner, and said he had found her billfold. "I don't think I've lost it," she told him, but immediately felt a pang of panic as she followed him back toward the house. Her billfold that day contained nearly $20,000. Gardner and her two...

Saba Did the Right Thing, Say Many Somayya Jabarti, Arab News Staff   JEDDAH, 19 November 2003 — Out of ruins heroes rise — or heroines.Saba Abu Lisan, a young Saudi woman, rescued seven people, including her two sisters, after the Al-Muhaya Compound bombing in Riyadh on Nov.8 .Wounded and bleeding herself, she transported the victims to King Faisal Specialist Hospital in her father’s Mercedes. Her actions — a conflict between following human instinct and violating Saudi law — stirred a mixture of reactions.“There’s nothing to think about,” said Muhammad Haider, a Saudi father of four, when asked his...

The evangelicals who like to giftwrap Islamophobia The world's largest children's Christmas project has a toxic agenda Giles Fraser Monday November 10, 2003 The Guardian It all sounds innocent enough. Operation Christmas Child "is a unique ministry that brings Christmas joy, packed in gift-filled shoeboxes, to children around the world". Over the past 10 years, 24 million shoeboxes have been delivered, making it the world's largest children's Christmas project. Every US president since Ronald Reagan has packed a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child. In the UK, thousands of schools, churches and youth clubs are doing the same. Some will fill...

(RALEIGH) -- Six people died Saturday at an intersection near the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. A green Chevy Blazer ran a stop sign and struck another Blazer at the intersection of Nowell and Chapel Hill around 9 p.m. No one was killed. But then, some pedestrians who were on the shoulder came onto the road to help the people exiting their vehicles. That's when a white van traveling toward Raleigh struck one of the Blazers and the pedestrians. The Highway Patrol has identified the driver of the van as Larry Robert Veeder, 32, of Raleigh. He is charged with six...

Saturday, November 1, 2003 Crestline man an information lifeline Good samaritan stays behind to help care for friend as fire rages By GARY GEORGE Special to the Daily Press CRESTLINE — When deputies evacuated this tiny mountain town nearly a week ago, Ed Ham decided to stay put and care for a diabetic friend who is dependent upon a respirator. Ham figured that even six or seven minutes outside in the smoky air would have put his friend, Larry, in danger. So Ham, 61, retrieved a gasoline-run generator from his glass company, Crestline Enterprises, and hooked it up. He packed...