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A 70-year-old Marine veteran from Maryland is fighting for his life after valiantly storming into a rowhouse that exploded so that he could rescue two strangers from the devastating blast. Terry Bagley was walking to the local market in the Pigtown neighborhood in Baltimore to purchase some items for his family's Thanksgiving meal when an explosion erupted at a rowhouse around 2 p.m. on Thursday. Bagley jumped into action and bravely ran into the fiery building, looking for anyone who needed assistance in escaping. The explosion destroyed one rowhouse and damaged several others. Bagley was able to rescue a 16-year-old...

An elderly woman broke down in tears as she was reunited with the man who rescued her from the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida. Esther Gorfinkel and Alfredo Lopez shared a tearful hug during an interview after he saved her by carrying on his shoulders as she struggled to make it down the stairs. They could have been victims of last Thursday's collapse of Champlain Towers South, which has left at least 24 dead and 124 missing. Esther Gorfinkel, an 88-year-old grandmother, was in her bed in Unit 509 when she heard a 'boom,' as she described it. 'My bed...

Sister Cecylia Roszak was among group of nuns who set up convent hiding Jews who escaped the Vilna Ghetto from the Nazis • Named Righteous Among the Nations in 1984, Sister Cecylia was "like a mother" to those children, says fellow nun at Krakow convent. News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff Polish nun Sister Cecylia Roszak, who has been honored for sheltering Jewish children during the Holocaust, died last week at the age of 110 and was laid to rest on Thursday in Krakow. Born March 25, 1908, Sister Cecylia joined a Krakow convent at age 21. She was in...

Recovering teen gets signed picture from President Trump Marian Camacho January 08, 2018 11:58 AM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – If you’ve been following the story of 14-year-old Wyatt Taylor at all, you already know he is a strong teenager. In mid-December, the young volunteer firefighter from La Cueva, New Mexico crashed his ATV only to be pinned underneath the machine for nearly 30-minutes. Taylor was able to free himself and hike to the nearest home for help. Taylor was airlifted to UNM Hospital and has been there since with family and friends by his side as he undergoes multiple surgeries and...

'He's a rescuer': Dozens help hospitalized teen driven by service Joy Wang December 22, 2017 07:27 PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A 14-year-old is in critical condition after an ATV accident left him with multiple injuries on his face and arms, resulting in him being taken to UNM Hospital. But as it turns out, this teenager is usually one responding to emergencies. Wyatt Taylor was always helping others growing up, which is why when he needed help, his small community and others across the country stepped in. Public service has come to be a bit of a tradition for the Taylor...

DUBLIN — As the Gestapo surrounds the palace of an Italian anti-Fascist aristocrat, an Irish priest dashes to the cellar. He is wanted by the Nazis for his role in the daring rescues of Jews, POWs and refugees, but this time it seems there is no escape. Miraculously, a coal delivery being made to the palace offers the perfect cover — the cleric blackens his face, hides his cassock and slips away to freedom through the narrow cobbled streets of Rome. This dramatic scene, recreated in the 1983 movie “The Scarlet and the Black” starring Gregory Peck as Monsignor...

A woman found a badly injured lion in the forest. She took it with her and nursed it back to health. When it was better, she made arrangements with a zoo to take the lion and give it a new and happy home. This video was taken when she returned to the zoo some time later to see how her lion was doing. Watch the lion's amazing reaction when he sees her!

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. - Three climbers who tumbled off a ledge on Mount Hood were taken away in an ambulance after they hiked down much of the state's highest peak with their rescuers — and a dog who may have saved their lives. "We're soaking wet and freezing," said one of two rescued women as she walked from a tracked snow vehicle to an ambulance. One of the women, whose name was not released, was taken to a Portland hospital and being treated for a head injury, said Jim Strovink, spokesman for the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department. "She's going to...

If a beady-eyed, rumpled, hard-drinking man with the personality of a treed bobcat rescued your family from a burning building, would you refuse to thank him, desperately wishing that someone more polite, well-educated and better looking had been your children's rescuer? Would you join in with the arsonists who maliciously set that house fire, who are mocking him as a publicity-hound and drunkard, pronouncing him delusional and even criticizing your family for being so easily tricked into believing there'd been a fire in the first place? That is a fair analogy to the life and times of Republican Senator Joseph...

Father rescues baby; both hurt in house blaze BY JOHN REYNOLDS AVALANCHE-JOURNAL As Cruz Orozco Jr. stood Friday afternoon outside the burned-out house at 1909 40th St. that had been his sister's home, he had no doubts as to how he felt about his brother-in-law, Reynaldo Rosas. "He's a hero," Orozco said. "He saved my sister's life. I'm proud to be his brother-in-law." Scarcely 12 hours earlier, Rosas severed an artery trying to smash open an escape route for his wife, Linda, out of their burning home. He then braved flames twice to rescue their 7-month-old daughter, Clarice Ariel. However,...

A Rescuer's Tale: Fight, Then Flight Bobby Green is proud he helped save Reginald Denny. But his brave act also led him to leave L.A. By STEPHANIE CHAVEZ, Times Staff Writer Bobby Green is sitting on his couch in suburban Rialto, talking about the night 10 years ago that he saved a man's life, a moment that made him a hero to most and a traitor to others. Back then, in the first hours of the Los Angeles riots, Green was sitting on another couch, this one in South-Central Los Angeles. He was watching a black man on live TV...