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An Indiana man lost for four days after his car became lodged in deep snow said he survived on Mountain Dew and mountain snow. Jason Pede, 31, said he was on his way from Dulce, N.M., to Aspen, Colo., on a rescue dog delivery when his Lincoln Navigator became lodged in deep snow on a small country road off Highway 114 near Saguache, Colo., KMGH-TV, Denver, reported Monday. Pede said he stayed in the car, surviving on a diet of Mountain Dew and snow, and found his electronic communication devices were not functioning in the weather. He said he burned...

Here is video of a 24 year-old Haitian man who was pulled from the Earthquake rubble today alive - 11 days after the quake. He is in relatively good shape, having been entombed by rubble with no severe injuries. Below is more extensive video of the moment he was being pulled from the rubble . . . (VIDEOS)

Six-year-old Jessica Hartelin wasn’t moving late Monday night when she was rushed into the Port-au-Prince stadium where IsraAID/FIRST medics had set up their clinic. The little girl had been pulled from the rubble six days after a building collapsed on top of her in the massive earthquake that shook the capital of Haiti to its knees. Alan Schneider, a member of the IsraAid emergency medical team and director of the B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem, said local volunteers had managed to pull the child out and rushed her to the Israeli team for treatment. Noticing the rush of people...

CHAOS But on the streets of the city, where scarce police patrols fired occasional shots and tear gas to try to disperse looters, the distribution of aid appeared random, chaotic and minimal. Downtown, young men could be seen carrying pistols. As international rescue crews combed rubble for survivors across the capital, there were jostling scrums for food and water as U.S. military helicopters swooped down to throw out boxes of water bottles and rations. A reporter also saw foreign aid workers tossing packets of food to desperate Haitians. "The distribution is totally disorganized. They are not identifying the people who...

British Army officer, Lieutenant Paddy Rice, has been described as "the luckiest soldier in Afghanistan" after surviving being shot by a Taliban sniper. video at link

JUPITER, FL--Gerald Geissler sits in his bed at Jupiter Medical Center in disbelief after getting struck by lightning Wednesday morning. Gerald was cleaning out his garage to get ready for his morning route cleaning pools. He was actually rolling out a truck tire when he was struck. [snip] Gerald says the tire he was rolling out of his garage actually saved his life because he was grounded by the rubber. Gerald will remain at Jupiter Medical Center for at least a couple more days for observation.

SAN'A, Yemen — A passenger jet from Yemen with 153 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean early Tuesday as it tried to land during heavy wind on the island nation of Comoros, a Yemeni aviation official said. A Comoros police official said one toddler has been rescued alive from the sea. Bodies were spotted floating in the ocean and the police official said three had been recovered so far

SALT LAKE CITY – When he realized he'd been separated from his family on a weekend hike in a northern Utah forest, 9-year-old Grayson Wynne's thoughts turned to television. Grayson watches "Man vs. Wild" on the Discovery Channel every week with his brothers and his dad. On the show, host and adventurer Bear Grylls strands himself in the wilderness and then shows viewers how to survive the sticky situations. That's where Grayson says he learned to leave clues behind to help searchers find him...

The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has died aged 97. Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the liner sank after hitting an iceberg in the early hours of 15 April 1912, on its maiden voyage from Southampton. The disaster resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people in the north Atlantic, largely due to a lack of lifeboats. Miss Dean, who remembered nothing of the fateful journey, died on Sunday at the care home in Hampshire where she lived, two of her friends told the BBC. Her family had been travelling to America, where they hoped to...

'It Blew Away Your Normal,' One Survivor Says OKLAHOMA CITY -- For years after she was trapped beneath six feet of rubble and seriously injured in the Oklahoma City bombing, Amy Petty kept her experience and the grief she felt over the deaths of 18 co-workers mostly to herself. Live Video: Watch Bombing Memorial Ceremony

L'AQUILA, ITALY - Though trapped by earthquake rubble for nearly two days, Eleonora Calesini was still alive when a powerful aftershock Tuesday night threatened to crush her. Somehow, a pair of fallen concrete pillars that had created a survival space for the 20-year-old student held. And 90 minutes later, firefighters and police pulled Calesini, in her nightgown, conscious from the wreckage, her rescuers said. When the aftershock hit, "we feared the worst," police Lt. Antonio Del Boccio told Sky TG24 TV. "We knew Eleonora was alive. And in that moment we thought the world would come crashing down on her...

Angry residents last night accused local authorities of contributing to the Victorian bushfire toll by failing to let residents chop down trees and clear up bushland that posed a fire risk. During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne's northern fringe, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticised the Nillumbik council for the limitations it placed on residents wanting the council's help or permission to clean up around their properties in preparation for the bushfire season. "We've lost two people in my...

The headline in USA Today gave me a sinking feeling: “US Airways Gives Passengers On Flight $5000.00 Each -- Passengers Wonder, Is it Enough?” Is it enough? Is anything ever enough anymore? It is absolutely, positively inconceivable that anyone aboard the miraculous US Airways Airbus whose pilot made a safe water landing after birds were sucked into the engines would expect US Airways to fork over a ton of money to them. This was one great story: a pilot makes a split-second decision to ditch into the frigid waters of the Hudson River, a decision that saved everyone on board...

Man Says "He Would Like To Be Made Whole" And so it begins. While "The Miracle on the Hudson" is gradually fading from the headlines, it appears clerks are toiling away in legal offices around the country to figure out who could be held legally liable in the incident under New York law, the depth of their pockets, and who'd get in line to collect. Before we all blame the lawyers, though, it should be noted they may only be responding to passengers itching to sue US Airways for as-yet-unknown damages.... Kreindler & Kreindler, a New York law firm with...

A Canadian woman who went missing last week in a blizzard has been found alive, buried under almost a foot of snow for four days.   Freezing: Donna Molner is taken to hospital after four days in the snow  Donna Molnar, 55, set off from home in Ancaster, Ontario, on Friday but her car got stuck in a field of snow drifts.The vehicle was found a day later, abandoned by the side of a road.By this time, fears for her survival were mounting and it was not until Monday, when police officer Ray Lau was trudging through almost knee-high...

CAMP VICTORY, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2008 – Rows of illuminated paper bags glowed as servicemembers honored cancer victims and survivors with a moment of silence. Army Staff Sgt. Kelly Greene, a supply sergeant for the 18th Airborne Corps, opens a glow stick packet to illuminate a paper bag during the Hope Ceremony at Camp Victory, Iraq, Nov. 8, 2008, in support of friends and family fighting cancer. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Michel Sauret  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “Cancer touches almost everybody in a certain way,” said Army Staff Sgt. Kelly Greene, who organized the Hope...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2008 – The United Warrior Survivors Foundation will host its fifth annual West Coast Survivors Conference Aug. 22-25 in San Diego. “These conferences were established with the unique needs of Special Forces widows in mind, affording them a healing experience and sense of camaraderie and support,” Kelly Chott, foundation administrator, said. The conference brings together Special Forces widows at various stages of bereavement and includes an array of speakers and experts in the fields of military widowhood, bereavement, financial planning, benefits and entitlements, as well as practical classes in self-defense and coping with their children’s grieving...

In what Sacramento police describe as a "miracle,'' a 2-year-old boy survived on cat food for up to six days on his own and was found Thursday after his mother died in their North Sacramento home. The child - whom Sacramento County Child Protective Services identified as Noah - and his mother were discovered at 10:39 a.m. after police forced their way into the home in the city's Hagginwood neighborhood, police Officer Konrad Von Schoech said. A CPS worker had gone to check on the family that morning because the mother suffered from chronic illness, Von Schoech said. No one...

Stricken ferry 'survivors found' The ferry was en route to Cebu from Manila when it capsized on Saturday Twenty-eight survivors have been found from a Philippine ferry carrying more than 700 people that capsized in a typhoon, a local radio station says. Four other people were found alive earlier, but hundreds remain missing after a rescue ship that reached the upturned vessel found no signs of life. The 28 had been drifting in a life-raft for 24 hours after the ferry tipped over off Sibuyan island, reports said. The Red Cross estimates the storm has left 155 people dead...

Man alive nearly 179 hours after quake YINGCHUAN, Sichuan, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Ma Yuan Jiang, a power plant executive, was rescued at around 00:50 a.m. Tuesday from the rubble in Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province, nearly 179 hours after the May 12 earthquake. The 31-year-old survivor was pulled by a Shanghai rescue team from the debris of a flattened power plant, after more than 30 hours' efforts. Rescuers found Ma at afternoon on May 18 at the debris of a flattened office building, when they were digging hole trying to reach Yu Jinhua, a colleague of Ma....