"I threw my bike down, grabbed my phone and jumped in the back of the police car with a couple of other pedestrians and it was kind of scary."

A North Carolina father became a real-life hero after he drowned saving his sons after they fell into a river during a fishing trip.

On May 1, the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit responded to a call, which resulted in them rescuing a woman 54 stories above the ground.

A bright young mechanical engineering student has died after a tragic accident near a California waterfall.

“Going in there was just instinct and I know that anyone in our department would have done the same," the officer told reporters.

"Never would you think that you could see, physically see, the Key Bridge tumble down like that," the city's mayor said.

The sheriff said he'd never seen an immigrant as bad off -- and he's been patrolling the border in one capacity or another for 26 years.

Even though the technology has been around for more than two decades, few know of the invention that saved this family.

It took about 40 minutes to set up a rope system and get someone ready to rappel down to the cab and and bring the driver out safely.

It was a "wild" night for police who saved the animals, which roamed along the freeway after midnight, some munching on grass.