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Surfer ‘still in disbelief’ after surviving great white shark attack

Friday, October 8 by ABC News

(BODEGA BAY, Calif.) -- Surfer Eric Steinley is recovering in the hospital after he was bitten by a great white shark in Bodega Bay, California. The 38-year-old told ABC News he was on his surfboard Sunday at Salmon Creek Beach waiting to catch a wave... Read More.

Soon-to-be youngest American in space shares how surviving cancer helped prepare her for mission

Monday, July 19 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) — Hayley Arceneaux's dreams of becoming an astronaut were crushed after being diagnosed with pediatric bone cancer at 10 years old, but now she's set to go to space in the world's first all-civilian mission to orbit Earth. Now, the 29-year-old St. Jude... Read More.

‘Feels like living close to hell’: Surviving Washington’s heat wave without air conditioning

Monday, June 28 by ABC News

(SEATTLE) -- Allan Apo's home in Marysville -- about 35 miles outside of Seattle -- doesn't have air conditioning, and the record-breaking heat wave in the Pacific Northwest "feels like living close to hell," he told ABC News. "A lot of people in this area... Read More.

Hiker recounts surviving encounter with bears on Alaska mountain

Friday, June 18 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) -- Fina Kiefer said there was a moment where she thought she "wasn't going to make it." The 55-year-old hiker had been alone on an Alaska mountain for days after being chased off a trail by bears. She could see helicopters overhead looking... Read More.

Last surviving Marine of USS Indianapolis dies at age 96

Monday, May 10 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) -- The last surviving Marine of the USS Indianapolis, the U.S. Navy ship that sank in July 1945, died this weekend. Edgar Harrell was 96 and lived at the Tennessee State Veterans Home in Clarksville, Tennessee, the official Facebook page of the ship... Read More.

Mother finally meets child three months after giving birth, surviving COVID-19

Wednesday, February 3 by ABC News

By HALEY YAMADA and ERIC NOLL, ABC News (POYNETTE, Wis.) -- Kelsey Townsend, of Poynette, Wisconsin, was in a medically induced coma and fighting for her life against COVID-19 when she gave birth to her baby girl, Lucy.Now mother and baby... Read More.

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