Great-grandmother has lucky escape from very unlucky mishap
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Most people would think they were supremely unlucky to be struck by a falling meteorite while out in their back garden.
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A 60-year-old grandmother wins her High Court fight to overturn a massive homes demolition plan.
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A resourceful 78-year-old retiree saved herself and others from possible serious injuries Monday after her taxi driver suddenly died of a heart attack on the highway, police said.
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Â· Sightseeing flight took place in bad weather  Â· Army team sent in after villagers find wreckage
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(HealthDay News) -- When an elderly person falls, it could cause life-threatening injury.
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MILLINGTON, New Jersey  - Georgette fell off the George Washington Bridge and broke some bones. La Nina doesn't have enough fear. So, they ended up caged in New Jersey's Great Swamp.
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A 63-year-old man has a lucky escape after being rescued from the base of cliffs at Ballycastle.
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By MARK BOWES  Diane Proctor feared something terrible had happened to her 83- year-old mother when she pulled into the Hunt Club Apartments yesterday and saw police and fire crews. "I come over here everyday because my mom is blind and doesn't walk very well," Proctor said.
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Elizabeth Adak Shindu paid a high price to return home. She walked for 30 days, endured hunger and disease and used up the last of her life savings. When she finally reached this sprawling, dusty town, she found another family living on her land.
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It would have been easy to dedicate this one to &quot;Maw&quot; - the 78-year-old grandmother Ryan Franklin lost last week. He could have said it was for his son, splayed across his father&#39;s lap after the game.
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Before Lisa Taleghani can get organized, she has to get rid of the junk. Three generations of it is crammed into the attic, basement, and back porch of her late grandmother's home in Revere.
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Improbably, a purveyor with a reputation for emptying pockets was coming to the rescue.
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After three nights in a freezing, powerless home, Jeanetta Plunkett couldn't take any more. She picked up her two young grandchildren and sought refuge at a shelter for people who lost electricity after a huge ice storm.
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Lucie Guo&#39;s grandfather died of cancer in China before she was born because doctors failed to detect the disease early enough to save him.
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As Hurricane Charley whipped toward his retirement home, Burton MacLeod didn&#39;t budge, telling his worried family he was going to ride it out, no matter how hard the winds blew.
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TYLER, Texas - Carjacked at knifepoint while pumping gas, a 75-year-old woman didn't give in without a fight. Mary Gean Smyth opened the door of her sport utility vehicle and doused the assailant in gas. "I'm sure he was burning like mad," Smyth said of the Tuesday carjacking.
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A 76-year-old Malay Muslim woman from southern Thailand who got on the wrong bus 25 years ago and ended up living at the other end of the country has been reunited with her family, officials and domestic media said on Tuesday.