A good Samaritan in Westchester County, New York clotheslined a suspected “porch pirate” as he fled from law enforcement before being tackled to the ground earlier this month. In an encounter caught on camera and first reported in the New York Post, Francisco Jose Eder Mateo, 27, was knocked to the ground by a city […]
A sealed box full of eight puppies was abandoned Wednesday near Burleson before a Good Samaritan rescued the dogs and brought them to the Humane Society of North Texas. The dogs were dumped Wednesday at about 2 p.m. near Interstate 35@W and FM 1187, said Cassie Davidson, spokesperson for the Humane Society. The Good Samaritan […]
A father-of-two who died after a car ploughed in a crowd of people was a Good Samaritan who was trying to help a stranger, police have said. On Thursday night, South Yorkshire Police named the 46-year-old man who died in the incident in College Close, in the Burngreave area of Sheffield, as Christian Marriott. The […]
A Michigan man was shot and killed by police after he wounded a good Samaritan trying to help him, according to investigators. The 37-year-old, from Hamtramck, got into a crash with another vehicle on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 26, in Garden City, Michigan State Police said in a news release. The man exited his […]
Gorman-Rupp shares profits with employees for 89th consecutive year The Gorman-Rupp Company distributed profit-sharing checks totaling more than $4 million to approximately 520 employees of its Mansfield and Gorman-Rupp Industries (Bellville) Divisions. This was the 89th consecutive year that employees have shared in the company’s profits, a program started by co-founders J.C. Gorman and H.E. […]
Dec. 24—TRAVERSE CITY — In her office right next to the fellowship hall where she oversees community outreach Jane Lippert says she never imagined her clerical career would go down this path. And she couldn’t be happier that it did. After a yearlong sabbatical eight years ago, she remembers exactly how it all started. Lippert […]