Dinghy girl 'lucky to be alive'
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A 12-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after she was swept out to sea in a dinghy, the Coastguard says.
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Actress Lisa Summerour counted herself  one of the lucky ones.
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By MARCUS KABEL  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Fishermen rescued a 5-year-old girl who was thrown into lake before dawn Wednesday, and divers searched the water for another possible victim before determining the child's mother was safe.
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She is sweet-looking and no more than 11 years old. She does not seem to realize there is a camera snapping her photo as she reaches inside the bottom of her bathing suit. And she surely doesn't know that her picture will be traded like a baseball card over the Internet by hundreds, if not...
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THE family of a Brisbane woman missing in Thailand said yesterday they had not given up hope of finding her alive. Dina Fryer went missing from Phuket when the Boxing Day tsunami struck the island resort.
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The parents of a  four-year-old British girl, snatched from a Portuguese holiday  resort three weeks ago, said on Friday they were convinced she  was still alive and vowed never to abandon the search for her.
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SEATTLE - A 17-year-old girl who survived eight days after her car crashed and tumbled 200 feet down a ravine may have been saved by her own dehydration, which prevented the expansion of a blood clot in her brain, doctors said.    Laura Hatch's family had almost given her up for dead, and sheriff's deputies had all but written her off as a runaway...
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A 15-year-old Missouri girl who came to Britain without telling her parents was found safe Thursday near Loch Ness in Scotland, police said.
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TIVERTON, N.S. (CP) - A sea-urchin diver reported missing off southwestern Nova Scotia turned up safe and sound Tuesday morning after an arduous swim and a night in the woods.
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Survivors of a fatal fire on board a submarine yesterday said they felt lucky to have escaped with their lives as Canada&#39;s defence minister, Bill Graham, said he could not rule out suing Britain over the incident.
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Laura Hatch&#39;s car is seen at the bottom of an embankment where she was found alive, in Redmond, Wash., Sunday Oct. 10, 2004, after being missing since Oct. 2. Hatch, 17, was listed in serious condition at
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The twisted limbs of the frail girl in a blue dress were caught in a garden fence by the sea. She may have already been dead, but no one stopped to check - there was too much tragedy going on all around, as the water kept coming.
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REDMOND, Wash. Eight days later, Laura Hatch has been found alive -- and figured she &quot;might be late for curfew.&quot;. The Washington state teen had been missing for more than a week before searchers found her in her wrecked car yesterday.
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A GIRL saved her baby sister from a dingo on an island where the wild dogs killed a boy three years ago. Five-year-old Georgia Corke sprang to the rescue of three-month-old Scarlett when a dingo got into her
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Tributes are paid to a schoolgirl who died after being swept away on a training expedition on Dartmoor.
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An Austrian girl held captive for eight   years told on Wednesday how the thought of escaping kept her   alive, but that she feared fleeing might provoke her kidnapper   into killing her and others in a murder spree.
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Grant Wharington and the 15 crew members of his 98-foot Skandia were safe in Hobart last night but &quot;lucky to be alive&quot; after transferring to two life-rafts, as their super-maxi wallowed upside-down in rough seas, 80 miles off Tasmania.