Good Samaritan

Stories 101 - 120 | << Prev   Next >>

Good Samaritan Killed Stopping Purse Snatcher

'It's tragic'

(Newser) - A Good Samaritan has died after protecting a woman from a would-be purse snatcher early yesterday in Phoenix, the Arizona Republic reports. Police say a man was attempting to take a 23-year-old woman's purse outside a residence shortly after midnight local time when 42-year-old Miguel Briseno intervened. He was...

Cops: Would-Be Do-Gooder Kidnapped a Guy

When Good Samaritans go bad

(Newser) - Oh, but the line between charity and kidnapping is a fine one. A man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly taking a 77-year-old man home and forcing him to eat meat because he thought the victim was homeless, NBC Connecticut reports. Police say David Pope noticed the victim pushing a cart...

Teens' Rudeness Leads to Heartwarming Gesture

Man's effort to spruce up neighbor's home goes viral

(Newser) - Thanks to an Oregon resident who was always taught to respect his elders, one community transformed the casual rudeness of a couple teenagers into a heartwarming gesture for a neighbor. CBS News reports that Union Pacific employee Josh Cyganik worked across the street from 75-year-old Leonard Bullock's home for...

Would-Be Good Samaritan Makes Things Worse for Mower

New York man cried for help ... and sorta got some

(Newser) - Authorities say a good Samaritan trying to help a New York man in distress turned out to be a bad Samaritan. The Wyoming County sheriff's office says a man's foot got stuck under his riding mower last week on a sloped lawn near an embankment in Genesee Falls....

Classy Move: Slain Deputy's Son Gets Dad's Car as Gift

Rancher outbids teen at auction, then turns over keys

(Newser) - When Tanner Brownlee was 15, his dad was shot and killed in the line of duty as a deputy for the Weld County Sheriff's Office in Colorado. Last night, about five years after that shooting, his dad's old patrol car came up for bid at a charity auction....

After NYC Blast, Good Samaritan to the Rescue

Video shows Austin Branda helping woman off fire escape

(Newser) - After this week's explosion in New York City's East Village , stories emerged about New Yorkers going above and beyond to lend a hand. But one in particular generated a lot of interest—that of a Good Samaritan who climbed a fire escape to help a woman who was...

Good Samaritan, Young Son Die in Highway Crash

They stopped to help when SUV hit black ice

(Newser) - Friends and family members are heartbroken by the death of Kristi Clark and her 10-year-old son, Carter Oakley—but they say she was acting completely in character when she rushed to help passengers in an SUV that rolled over in front of her vehicle. In what police describe as a...

Cops Buy Back Elderly Man's Pawned Wedding Ring

He was struggling to care for wife with dementia

(Newser) - When police in Cornwall, Ontario, responded to a domestic call, they found an elderly woman with dementia arguing with her husband of 54 years. In talking to the husband, the officers learned that he had recently pawned his wedding ring, a sign of how desperate things were getting as he...

Woman Returns $2.6K in Cash in Her Burger King Bag

She was accidentally given a bank deposit instead of spicy chicken

(Newser) - A New Hampshire woman got a surprise at a Burger King drive-thru: a bag full of cash instead of food. Janelle Jones says she discovered on the way home that the bag did not contain the sweet tea and junior spicy chicken sandwich that she had ordered yesterday at the...

Strangers Help Dad Get Dead Infant's Ashes Back

Urn was in a car bound for a scrap yard

(Newser) - A man who thought he'd lost the boxed ashes of his deceased infant daughter has them back thanks to the efforts of several strangers in central Ohio. WBNS-TV in Columbus reports a man processing cars bound for a scrap yard spotted the gold box sitting on a vehicle's...

Couple Giving Away Hawaii Trip to 'Most Loving Person'

Cody, Eva Borek won trip when they bought new car, say they want to pay it forward

(Newser) - When Cody and Eva Borek of Alberta, Canada, bought a new SUV, they won a five-day trip to Hawaii, complete with free airfare and five-star hotel accommodations—and decided to pay it forward instead of taking the trip themselves. And so they created a Facebook page to help in their...

55 Years After Plane Wreck, Ring Finds Its Way Home

Nick Buchanan searched for surviving family for nearly 20 years

(Newser) - It's a bittersweet reunion. Joyce Wharton, now 78, had recently married when her parents Hazel and Hugh Armstrong set out on a flight one morning in 1959. "He was a very experienced pilot and they flew that morning out of Portland to Seattle and never arrived," Wharton...

Passer-by Saves Baby From Sunken Car

Another passer-by in Maine gives the girl CPR

(Newser) - Two Good Samaritans teamed up to save the life of a baby in a submerged SUV, reports AP . The rescue unfolded in Kossuth Township, Maine, when Leo Moody spotted the flipped vehicle in about 3 feet of water in a culvert. The driver and two passengers had made it to...

Good Samaritan Falls Off Bridge to His Death

Mark Ferguson stepped over rail in darkness while looking for driver

(Newser) - Tragedy in Nashville, where a would-be Good Samaritan lost his life after falling off a bridge in the darkness. Mark Ferguson was traveling on I-40 with his three brothers around 2am today when they came upon a what police describe as "a car that had crashed into the retaining...

Off-Duty Cop Finds $120K, Returns It to Owner

She was driving home from work, found two bags on road

(Newser) - It could have been easy money. But when an off-duty sergeant with the California Highway Patrol found two bags stuffed with $120,000 in cash, she reported the find instead, reports UPI . The unidentified 20-year veteran says she had to swerve to avoid hitting the bank-deposit bags while driving in...

Good Samaritan Buys Groceries for Strangers

Anonymous do-gooder surprises shoppers in California

(Newser) - Shoppers at a grocery store in Concord, Calif., got an unexpected surprise at the register this week: free food courtesy of an anonymous stranger, reports the Contra Costa Times . The Good Samaritan showed up at the Grocery Outlet yesterday afternoon and got the permission of the manager for his unusual...

After Transplant Saves Son, Mom Returns Favor

She's donating kidney to father of deceased youth

(Newser) - It’s the kind of organ donation that California hospital officials say they’ve never seen before: The mother of a man who had a lifesaving pancreas transplant almost 10 years ago is now donating her own kidney to the father of the deceased pancreas donor. When Bill Millard’s...

Asked to Watch House, Pal Makes $70K in Renovations

Retiring Marine gets a big surprise on return to US

(Newser) - Marine Sgt. Jacinto Bernardo asked a buddy to keep an eye on the fixer-upper he bought in Suisun City, Calif., back in January as he shipped out for his last deployment before retirement. When Bernardo and his wife got back to the US from Japan, they discovered that Jeremy Epperson...

Cop Replaces Elderly Woman's Stolen Ring

Someone ripped engagement ring off finger of Alzheimer's patient

(Newser) - A classy move by a Florida cop is making headlines: Laurie Graber, an officer in Plantation, got the call for a particularly low-level crime—someone had ripped the engagement ring off the finger of an 87-year-old woman bedridden with Alzheimer's in a hospital, reports Fox News . By the bruises...

Man Returns $125K So Grandkids Will Be Proud

Police officer says Joe Cornell is one in a million

(Newser) - Joe Cornell was volunteering on Tuesday at a Salvation Army in Fresno where he attends a rehab program when he noticed something a bit odd. A car had pulled up beside a Brinks truck that was stopped at a light and someone inside said something to its driver. Yet the...

Stories 101 - 120 | << Prev   Next >>
Most Read on Newser