Demonstrating that the American can-do spirit is still alive and well, Florida fifth grader Michael Dashcer did what anybody would do when a six-foot alligator ate his fishing bait. He tried to reel it in. When it attacked him, he whacked it senseless, wrestled it down, then dragged it home to show to his…

Here’s a video with stunning audio that makes up for the lack of visuals — as you hear for yourself the tornado ripping through the Fastrip convenience store near Range Line Road. Then, the second video shows where it all happened. Isaac Duncan says he heard reports that a tornado was literally around the corner. So he and a…

All you have to do is look at the TV judges’ faces to know what they were expecting. The guy wants to sing opera. Yeah, right. Obviously, nobody believed in him — except him. And even if all the audience could see was a pudgy guy with a lisp and a goofy gap between his…

Among the stories of the May 22, 2011 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri, are incredible heroism as the staff of St. John’s Regional Hospital scrambled to protect patients who could not be moved to safety — and of the scores of shoppers caught inside a Walmart as the twister churned into the city’s northside business…

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