Wilder Penfield
1891 - 1976
Wilder Penfield was born in Spokane, Washington, and spent much of his youth in Hudson, Wisconsin. When he was 13, in 1904, his mother learned of the newly established Rhodes Scholarship. “This is just the thing for you,” he recalled his mother saying with great confidence. He had to become an all-round [...]

Texas Governor Rick Perry officially pardoned James Waller in March, 24 years after he was wrongly convicted of rape. Waller spent more than 10 years in Texas prisons and 13 years on parole. He first sought DNA testing in 1989, and tests finally proved his innocence in 2006. He is the 12th Dallas County person [...]

A man buried by an avalanche for almost eight hours emerged with little more than scratches after a relative found him using a probe.
Ryan Roberts, 34, said Friday he was astonished he survived the avalanche, which occurred about 4 p.m. Thursday while snowmobiling with an uncle and friend in Flathead National Forest’s Jewel Basin near [...]

Doctors had called it a miracle. A Southern Colorado woman was in a vegetative state for more than six years, talked for the first time, speaking exclusively to 11 News.
Christa Lilly has since relapsed.
Minnie Smith, her mother and chief care-giver, says there is some small consolation when she has to say goodbye to her daughter [...]

A man rescued from drowning as a three-year-old has just himself saved the life of a drowning man in the United States – 37 years later.
The uncanny coincidences include the fact Neil Maycock, from Burghfield Common, was saved by a passing stranger as a toddler but this time it was he who found himself in [...]