Merchant Seaman Gerald Gormley was practically dead on arrival at Detroit’s Receiving Hospital. While fighting off street-corner hoods, he had been stabbed in the back, and the knife blade had slit right through his descending aorta, the main artery that carries blood to the trunk and legs. He was losing blood so fast that his [...]

A Vancouver Island man who survived an attack by a grizzly bear said he was working in the bush when a sixth sense told him he wasn’t alone.
“I have a really keen sense. I had a feeling somebody or something was watching me,” said Brent Case, 53, whose encounter with a grizzly occurred last week [...]

Emergency room doctors apologized to the 42-year-old woman who had come in for treatment for staring at her in disbelief. It wasn’t every day — in fact, it was never — that they saw somebody with a large-caliber gunshot wound between the eyes who not only was alive, but wasn’t even unconscious or seriously injured.
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Watching Cameron Knowles chase after the family cat and noisily play video games with little brother Zachary, it’s hard to imagine that just a month ago the whirlwind 7-year-old lay dead on his bedroom floor for at least 12 minutes.
Around 7 a.m. on March 26, Mark Knowles came home from an overnight shift at his [...]

Double amputee Oscar Pistorius can try to qualify for the Beijing Olympics after winning his appeal against a ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the South African said on Friday.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ruled in January that runner Pistorius could not compete with able-bodied athletes because the carbon-fiber blades [...]