An EF2 tornado, with winds between 111 and 135 miles per hour, ripped through Slidell, Louisiana. Officer Rodney West of the Slidell Police Department left his car and began patrolling the affected area on foot.

A car goes flying through the air and crashes into a garage. It happened around 6 a.m. as this California neighborhood was just waking up. A neighbor’s doorbell camera across the street captured the wild moment.

A hockey puck goes flying into the crowd at a Cleveland Monsters game. It nearly hit a 4-year-old boy sitting in the stands. A man with quick instincts blocked it.

On April 15, 2019, Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire. People watched on television and online as the roof burned and the spire that once reached 315 feet tall was incinerated. Five years later, there is progress that the public can see from far away.

Elementary school kids in Santa Cruz, California, stumbled upon one of the rarest finds in the state’s history. While out hiking, they discovered what looked like an unusual stick.

These teens survived dramatic rescues. In 2022, Maryland officers saved a teen who jumped into a frozen creek trying to save their friend.

Albino Carreira fell on a construction job in Toronto, Canada. It took surgeons inserting six screws and two metal plates into his back to help him, but he was unable to work again.

Along with jumbo packs of paper towels and giant piles of pants, Costco sells one-ounce gold ingots. Now, Wells Fargo is reporting that Costco is selling as much as $200 million worth of gold bars every month.

These people pretended to be animals. In 2017, Hannah Benton got her boyfriend an inflatable dinosaur costume for his birthday — and he wore it for her senior prom.