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Police called him a "Good Samaritan," but Minneapolis detectives were still investigating Friday the case of a man who shot and killed an armed robber he chased down the night before. The man who fired the fatal shot had a permit for his handgun and told police he used the weapon after the fleeing robber turned and confronted him behind a restaurant. Police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer said the department was leaning toward classifying the shooting as self-defense. "However, decisions on charging are left up to the county attorney's office. And since there's a death, it might even be taken...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police say a man who witnessed an elderly woman being robbed and pistol-whipped shot and killed her attacker. Authorities say the armed robber confronted the woman in the parking lot of a grocery store about 10 p.m. Thursday, took her purse and hit her in the head with his gun. A man who witnessed the robbery chased the suspect and shot him. When police arrived, the witness told officers he had a permit to carry a gun and that he had shot the armed robbery suspect during a confrontation outside a nearby restaurant. He told officers where...

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A 62-year-old man who stopped to help a couple on the side of the road Thursday evening in Southeast Bexar County ended up shooting the man he was trying to help after he was allegedly attacked, Bexar County deputies said. A 31-year-old man and his wife had been traveling on FM 78 around 7 p.m. when their truck ran out of gas at Firestone Parkway, and the older man pulled over to help, deputies said. A dispute arose between the two men over how the husband was addressing his wife. Investigators believe the older man was assaulted before he fired...

Noya Deats' routine walk along the Roza Canal turned disastrous Wednesday when her two dogs, Fawn and Nia, decided to take a swim. ... But once in the water, neither dog could get out because of the swift current. Unsure what to do, Deats ran alongside the canal to keep up with them while she called her husband, Matt, and the police. ... After watching the deputy struggle to rope the dogs, he [farm laborer Jesus Villanueva] took the lasso and said: "Let me see." ... Seconds later, he lassoed each dog in rapid succession, pulling them to safety.

The Palins were in Alabama today helping out with disaster relief in the wake of last week’s killer tornado outbreak. Via Samaritan’s Purse: Todd Palin, four-time winner of the Iron Dog off-road snowmobile race across Alaska, along with his wife, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, joined Samaritan’s Purse volunteers to help tornado victims in Birmingham, Alabama, on Wednesday. “I came here to work hard,” Todd said. “There’s no point in being here if you’re not going to work hard.” After getting a safety briefing and talking with volunteers, the Palins joined a crew helping homeowner J.L. Price recover from the...

  At the request of Japanese Christians, Samaritan's Purse has deployed a team to provide emergency aid to people affected by the deadly earthquake and massive tsunami that hit the northeastern coast of the country on March 11.Staff members are on their way to the affected area. We will be working with local churches to distribute food, water, blankets, hygiene supplies, and other aid to people who have lost virtually everything. “The people of Japan need help, and we are going to help them however we can,” said Ken Isaacs, Samaritan’s Purse International’s vice president of projects, who is...

Jeweller credits his ‘agile’ fingers for being able to tie knots in arteriesA man with no medical training managed to save a young woman's life when both her legs were severed by a train and he tied the protruding arteries of her legs into knots. The woman was reportedly hoping to spend Sunday night under the stars with her boyfriend as they jumped onto a slow-moving freight train near Jonquiere, northeast of Quebec City. According to authorities, the 20-year-old woman lost her footing and fell under the wheels.

Two more men were charged Friday in the May 25 beating of a good Samaritan at a downtown St. Paul convenience store. Ibrahim Mohammed Abdullahi, 22, and Zakaria Abdinasser Yusuf (aka Zamria Yusef), 21, both of St. Paul, were charged by the Ramsey County attorney's office with felony second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon. St. Paul police arrested them Thursday night after receiving tips. Last Friday, the Ramsey County attorney's office charged Ahmed Farah Hirsi, 22, with second-degree assault.

We're following up on a story tonight that shows one good turn deserves another. Sunday night, we told you about a missing backpack in Kalispell. It contained a laptop and $6,000 that belonged to the former president of Burger King. Russ Klein thought he put it in his rental car. As it turns out, the vehicle was someone else's. We ran the story Sunday night. The next morning, the car's owner took the bag, the laptop and the cash to Kalispell Police. Klein offered a reward, but the good samaritan turned it down. So, Klein and his wife gave the...

Health Care Sharing Ministries To Be Rendered Useless By Obama-Democrat Healthcare Travesty. Our Freedoms Stricken! This will adversely affect thousands of pastors, evangelists, and missionaries! November 2, 2009 Please Contact Your U.S. Representative Now! A bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require all Americans to purchase government approved health insurance. Your sharing through Samaritan Ministries will not be considered adequate to meet the bill’s requirements in its current form. A vote is planned for this week on H.R. 3962 – The Affordable Health Care for America Act. Despite all of our efforts to date,...

Two taggers who pleaded no contest to killing a West Valinda man who tried to stop them in 2006 were sentenced to 21 years in state prison. Anthony Alex Castillo, 21, of Azusa and Robert Alex Lopez, 19, of La Puente pleaded no contest in Pomona Superior Court to one count of voluntary manslaughter and admitted the shooting was done as part of a street gang activity, said Deputy District Ross Alari. Killed was Robert Whitehead, 44, of Valinda. He was shot to death on March 9, 2006. Paul "Malo" Salazar, a Bishop Amat graduate suspected of actually pulling the...

DENVER – The Colorado State Patrol has withdrawn the $22 jaywalking ticket issued to a good Samaritan who was seriously injured by a pickup after he pushed three people out of its path. Bus driver Jim Moffett of Denver and another man were helping two elderly women cross a busy Denver street in a snowstorm when he was hit Feb. 20. Moffett, 58, suffered bleeding in the brain, broken bones, a dislocated shoulder and a possible ruptured spleen. He remained hospitalized in serious condition Friday

DENVER – A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket. Family members said 58-year-old bus driver Jim Moffett and another man were helping two elderly women cross a busy Denver street in a snowstorm when he was hit Friday night. Moffett suffered bleeding in the brain, broken bones, a dislocated shoulder and a possible ruptured spleen. He was in serious but stable condition Wednesday. The Colorado State Patrol issued the citation. Trooper Ryan Sullivan said...

Governor, Lt. Governor to Travel to Western Alaska February 19, 2009, Juneau, Alaska - Following up on several trips to Western Alaska by multi-agency state personnel, Governor Sarah Palin and Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will travel with Franklin Graham, President and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, to the communities of Marshall and Russian Mission on Friday. Samaritan's Purse is a nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid across the world. Working with private sector and nonprofit resources, an estimated 10,000 pounds of food will be distributed to more than 200 Alaska families in need. For several weeks the administration has been working...

A couple of miles from the house, the Whites had their own mini-disaster. A tire blew on the Mercury. Bill, luckily, managed to nurse his wounded ride off the street and into the lighted parking lot of a strip mall. Bill became a bit woozy himself when he discovered his jack was malfunctioning. Never a good thing at midnight. Plan B kicked in, however. One of those cigarette-lighter-plug-in air compressors was available. Except it was leaking more air than it was pumping. "I don't know, a hundred cars, probably more, had to go by. Nobody was stopping," said Bill. "That's...

May 17, 2008 -- A crazed homeless man spit on a pregnant woman in the subway yesterday - then allegedly stabbed a man who valiantly intervened to protect her. The victim, Clarence Carter Cochran, 44, a real estate agent and actor, was waiting in the 23rd Street/Sixth Avenue subway station at 1 p.m. when a friend stepped off the F train. As they began to talk, ex-con Herron Wilson, 64, who was screaming wildly, lunged at the woman and spit on her. "I'm like, 'Did you really just spit? You spit on a pregnant lady!' " the well-muscled Cochran told...

CRESTWOOD, Mo.—Surveillance video from a Starbucks in a St. Louis suburb captures the moments before Roger Kreutz went from hero to tragic victim. He stands in line behind a young man and woman at the coffee shop, where he's a regular customer. The young man fiddles with items on the counter while she orders a coffee, pays and heads out the door. The young man swipes the tip jar, and Kreutz, in the spur of the moment, gives chase. What happened next is not caught on tape. Police say the two suspects, with the young man behind the wheel of...

A Good Samaritan who tried to stop two thieves from running off with a Starbucks tip jar has died after the pair hit him with their car...

1 Dead, 27 Hurt In 6-Car Crash Good Samaritan Killed Aiding Stranded Motorist MESA, Ariz. -- A good Samaritan was killed and 27 other people were hurt after he stopped to help a motorist whose hood had popped open on U.S. 60 in east Mesa, police said. The incident started when a dark sedan, its hood up, stopped in the road two lanes from the shoulder. The victim came to his aid. But soon after, five other vehicles struck the Xterra, the victim or one another, said Department of Public Safety Sgt. William Rogers said. [snip] As for the motorist...