Teacher wins $10K award
Western & Southern Financial Group named veteran teacher Kimya Moyo this year’s winner of the Dr. Lawrence C. Hawkins Educator of the Year Award, an honor than comes along with a no-strings-attached $10,000 check. »
Western & Southern Financial Group named veteran teacher Kimya Moyo this year’s winner of the Dr. Lawrence C. Hawkins Educator of the Year Award, an honor than comes along with a no-strings-attached $10,000 check. »
A SCHOOLGIRL repeatedly stabbed in a frenzied attack met her footballing heroes during a visit to Everton’s training ground. »
THE hero train driver who broke his neck in the Grayrigg rail crash is set to return to work two months earlier than expected. »
Family and friends of pilot Jane Kekana were touched by an angel, because angels fly. »
Yom Hashoah, better known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a way for Jews and non-Jews to commemorate unthinkable loss and invaluable strength at the same time. »
A TRAFFIC officer has been hailed a hero after he helped stop a man throwing himself off a 100ft motorway bridge. »
The Westminster Police Department recently announced the recipients of annual awards honoring its best officers and staff. »
On the second Thursday of December, Lauren Barnes plans to lay a wreath on her father’s grave at Medford’s Eagle Point National Cemetery. »
At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, Stillwater officials presented Hope Hendrix with a Citizen Commendation for her actions during a house fire during the early morning hours of Feb. 17. »
A YOUNG boy from Aldwick who was not expected to live has turned lifesaver. »
A FILIPINO fisherman was saved from almost certain drowning when two strangers came to his rescue at the Salmon Holes on Good Friday. »
Police brass recently honored an Emergency Services detective who saved the life of a 3-year-old girl in Queens in February. »
A SHEFFIELD (UK) schoolteacher found himself rubbing shoulders with sporting superstars when he was nominated for a top national journalism award. »
Heroism no longer has the distinction it once did. Athletes are called heroes for tossing a ball through a hoop. Philanthropists are called heroes for signing a check. »
Matthew Miller, one of the heroes of last summer’s Interstate 35W bridge collapse, will receive a national citizen award today from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. »
A JCB driver has been hailed as a hero after helping to put out a barn fire. »
A disabled girl around 11 years old is in hospital after firefighters rescued her from the window of a burning building in Montreal (Canada) early Monday morning. »
It’s a Friday afternoon in August of 2002, and Marion Smith and his wife are chatting with their pastor and his wife in front of the Smiths’ home on Dickinson Street SE. »
A number of Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Department deputies will be recognized in April for acts ranging from saving residents from a fire to solving ongoing cases to organizing charity events. »
Indian River Community College adult education teacher Ed Musgrove thought he was going to hear about budget cuts when he and his adult education colleagues were called to a 9 a.m. meeting Friday. Instead, he learned he is getting a national adult education teaching award. »
Patty Stone pulled a page out of an Atlas and began tracking the South American journey of her 25-year-old daughter, Sarah. A trail of yellow highlighter snaked through Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. »
At the front of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in North Little Rock, the single mothers and their children lined up with their carts. »
A former South Florida teacher of the year inspired her students to help others. »
A SPLIT-second decision to protect strangers almost cost a city man his life when he came within inches of death.
Talking for the first time today, as he recovers from having his stomach slashed open by a knife, 22-year-old Nick Petruzziello said stepping into a scene of mayhem and chaos in the city centre had made him determined to become a police officer. »
A hero British Airway pilot saved the lives of his 136 passengers with a miraculous emergency landing at Heathrow Airport this afternoon. »
Const. Jessie Poonian put his life in peril by rescuing a 10-year-old girl sleeping on a couch in a burning home in the $20-million MacEwan neighbourhood fire in July. »
Shortridge Middle School’s assistant principal watched in puzzlement this year when the new sixth-grade teacher walked into the cafeteria, sat down among the students and unpacked his lunch. »
He once was a human “ball of fire.” Now, Benjamin Ruiz is a ray of hope for many. »
Courageous neighbours are being praised for saving the life of a mother who was being stabbed repeatedly in the middle of the night. »
A HAVE-A-GO hero trucker stopped a drunken Jaguar driver in his tracks after he evaded cops in a high-speed chase. »