Student survives; classmate missing
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SACRAMENTO -- They were at a seaside bungalow when the Indian Ocean swelled unexpectedly and roared mercilessly onto land. The invading currents swept Laura Wales in a swirl of debris, but somehow she survived.
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Workers rescued a 15-year-old boy early Tuesday who was alive 36 hours after the collapse of an apartment building that left five people dead in southeastern Turkey, the governor's office announced.
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SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 9 -- A woman who initially survived an accident was presumed dead and left in a car's wreckage with a tarpaulin over her body for an hour after a paramedic failed to check her pulse, officials said.
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By Steve Neavling, Detroit Free Press  Mar. 1--The teenager who escaped the Juvenile Justice Center in Mt.
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BLOOMFIELD, Conn., June 6 -- Police looking for clues in the year-long disappearance of a 15-year-old girl said that they found her on Wednesday, pale but alive, locked in a hidden room in a home owned by an acquaintance of her parents.
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First year law student Janise Joseph-Woodard was supposed to be sitting in her criminal law class. Instead, there was an empty seat when her class met Tuesday night. Florida A&amp;M College professors had to console her classmates after a small plane plowed into her home, killing Joseph-Woodard, 24, her 6-month-old son and three others.
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By Mari A. Schaefer, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 25--Hooked up to tubes and monitors, a metal brace drilled into his skull to immobilize his broken neck, Frank Burd worried how his students would fare on state tests next month now that he could not be there to help them.
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A 17 year old girl from Seattle, Washington was found alive over the weekend after spending eight days stuck inside her wrecked car.
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A middle school student from Brooklyn died Thursday, probably from the staph infection MRSA, according to the New York City Health Department.
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A boy who suffered life-threatening head injuries in a road accident is returning to school.
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A 12-year-old US girl survives a plane crash in Panama which killed a US man, his daughter and the local pilot.
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By MARCUS KABEL ENTERPRISE, Ala. - An apparent tornado struck a high school Thursday, trapping students under rubble and killing at least thirteen people, emergency officials said.
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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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Police investigate a sighting of missing student Sally Geeson who vanished after a New Year party.
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Charles and Laura Willis sat on a blanket in a high school hallway Friday because they had nowhere else to go to get away from Hurricane Frances. With a beat-up car and no money to even board up their house, they probably couldn't have gotten there anyway.
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An autistic hiker lost for four days has been found alive and reunited with his family, a spokesman for the search effort said Thursday afternoon.
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Family reported nine-year-old Shannon Matthews missing when she did not come home from school yesterday