Good Samaritan

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Golf Course Worker Returns $36K in Cash

An ailing senior had misplaced a bag

(Newser) - A South Florida golf course employee found a bag stuffed with $36,000 in cash and turned it over to authorities instead of taking an easy payday. Rachel Castillo found the bag in January at the Miami Beach Golf Course. It also contained a man's name and address, and...

Panhandler Gets $86K for Returning Diamond Ring

Missouri woman raises money to thank homeless man

(Newser) - Honesty paid off for a panhandler in Missouri who found a diamond ring in his change cup—and gave it back to its owner, the Huffington Post reports. Sarah Darling was so grateful to have the ring again that she raised more than $86,000 to thank Billy Ray Harris...

Woman Saves Two Men Stuck on Subway Tracks

Doreen Winkler: 'You can't ... watch somebody die'

(Newser) - Doreen Winkler was not about to let another man die in a New York subway. The 5-foot-2 Brooklynite took action after spotting a drunken drifter lying on the tracks at Bowling Green Station on Thursday. "You can’t ever, ever, ever watch somebody die," said Winkler, who had...

Good Samaritan Helps Man Twice, 8 Years Apart

Gerald Gronowski got help with fish hook first time around

(Newser) - An Ohio man is thankful for the intervention of a Good Samaritan—the same one who helped him once before, eight years ago. Gerald Gronowski had a flat tire east of Cleveland recently when a man named Christopher Manacci stopped to help. During the encounter, Gronowski began talking about another...

Stradivarius Turned In to Lost and Found

Musician forgot it on a Swiss train

(Newser) - A Stradivarius violin likely worth millions of dollars was turned in to a Swiss lost and found. The owner had loaned it to a musician friend who left it behind on a train in Bern. Train staff searched in vain for it, then spotted another passenger on surveillance cameras walking...

Man Shot Stopping LA Robbery
 Man Shot Stopping LA Robbery 
Jan 17, 2012 4:00 AM CST

Man Shot Stopping LA Robbery

Robber kept firing after being stabbed in neck

(Newser) - A restaurant worker who tried to foil an armed robbery at a Los Angeles meat market is clinging to life after being shot in the head. After a cashier at the market fled to the restaurant next door, two workers confronted the robber. One dodged a bullet and stabbed the...

Woman Gets New Kidney Via Craigslist

Good Samaritan donates one of hers to save a life

(Newser) - An antidote to all those Craigslist-is-the-devil's-little-helper stories ( like this ): A 28-year-old woman in Florida desperate for a new kidney posted the request on the site, reports the Palm Beach Post . After a flurry of media attention, Selina Hodge ended up with more than 800 responses, including one...

Chinese Tot Struck Twice by Cars, Passers-by Ignore Her

Chinese shocked by film

(Newser) - A 2-year-old Chinese girl lies in a coma in a Guandong Province hospital after she was struck—twice—by hit-and-run drivers as passers-by did nothing to help her. The little girl wandered away from her mother into a street near a hardware market in Foshan City and was first hit...

Backers Push Good Samaritan Law to Save Drug Users

911 callers don't risk arrest themselves

(Newser) - Good Samaritan laws are designed to make sure people who OD on drugs get help. The idea is to shield callers to 911 who report someone in trouble from getting arrested themselves, Newsweek reports in a look at the push for the laws. So far, Washington state and New Mexico...

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