CATHLAMET, Wash. A 911 dispatcher in Washington state called on her own mother to rescue a stranded boater in the Columbia River, knowing her mother could kayak to the area faster than sending the ...

In 17-year-old Johnson Bryant's case, huffing the fumes from two cans of butane caused heart failure. "How would I know to look at a can of butane with fear?" asked his mother. James Ward is in ...