A planned rescue of a research crew trapped in a ship stuck in the ice off Antarctica was cancelled, due to risky ice sea ice conditions. Fifty-two passengers have been trapped on board since Christmas Eve. But despite everything, they still seem to be in pretty good spirits. » 1/01/14 10:55pm 1/01/14 10:55pm

That face! I love Sam so much, and I think I am going to jump into the screen, drag him out, give him all the kisses and hugs, marry him in Washington, move back to San Francisco (sorry, Washington, but you don't want my ass, for real) and live happily forever, ever. » 12/13/12 10:00pm 12/13/12 10:00pm

So, I watched this video, and then I cried forever, and then I emptied my bank account in the Humane Society's bank account. And then I cuddled my dogs and then I raised my fist to curse all puppy mills everywhere. It's been a crazy night. » 12/05/12 11:15pm 12/05/12 11:15pm

Bonnie Miller was walking on a pier in Benton Harbor, Michigan, with her husband Greg and her 15-year-old son, Quinn. She realized she'd made an appointment for the wrong time and took out her phone to text. The next thing she knew, she'd fallen off the pier and into a river channel that leads to Lake Michigan. Oops.… » 3/27/12 9:30am 3/27/12 9:30am

A 7-year-old girl is safe and sound after a man attempted to kidnap her earlier this week in the toy aisle of a Walmart in Georgia. Brittney Baxter was looking at toys when a man started talking to her and then grabbed her, covering her mouth. She kicked him and screamed until he let her go, which you can see on this… » 2/10/12 11:45am 2/10/12 11:45am

One moose in Alaska sure picked the wrong woman to mess with-and it got the surprise of al lifetime when a tiny 85 year old woman came flying at it with a shovel. Here's how it went down: Dorothea Taylor was waiting in her truck one day when her husband of 40 years, George Murphy, went to get their dogs. She heard the … » 1/24/12 10:30pm 1/24/12 10:30pm

When 10-year-old Madisyn Kestell's found her mother, Kandace Seyferth, unconscious on the floor of their Wisconsin home, she knew just what to do. She dialed 911, and then started giving her mom CPR. She and her friend 12-year-old Katelynn Vreeke worked together, with Madisyn doing mouth-to-mouth and Katelynn doing… » 12/04/11 2:35pm 12/04/11 2:35pm

Oh man, the phrase "mouth-to-snout" is pretty wonderful all by itself, but it was a real life-saver for a yellow lab named Coda in Wisconsin. Poor Coda was caught in a fire, and when firefighters pulled him out of the house he was unresponsive. Fortunately, two of his quick-thinking rescuers gave Coda "mouth-to-snout"… » 10/23/11 11:35am 10/23/11 11:35am

A 58-year-old woman who works at the Amundsen-Scott research station at the South Pole suffered a stroke at the end of August, and now a battle has erupted between her family and the company that runs the station over when she will be evacuated. Renee-Nicole Douceur was seen immediately after her stroke by the doctors … » 10/09/11 1:00pm 10/09/11 1:00pm

Today in awesome: a young woman saved a little boy from a charging grizzly using only her courage and that of her trusty horse. » 9/21/11 9:50am 9/21/11 9:50am

A trio of teenagers adrift for two months in the South Pacific were found yesterday by a New Zealand fishing boat "in a lonely part of the ocean." They'd subsisted on rainwater, coconuts, and the meat of a single bird. » 11/26/10 5:40pm 11/26/10 5:40pm

Last Sunday, airport staff in Bangkok rescued this two-month-old tiger cub from a smuggler boarding a plane to Iran. The poor little guy was drugged and hidden in a pile of stuffed toy tigers. » 8/27/10 9:48am 8/27/10 9:48am