good Samaritan

The Red Cross of Mass. recognizes good samaritan heroes in video series.

Authorities on Wednesday praised a father and son from Leicester, Massachusetts for their role in rescuing three people and a dog who crashed in a small plane a day earlier in a remote part of town. The plane crashed off Moosehill Road around 5 p.m. Tuesday. The location was difficult for emergency responders to get to, especially with a foot…

The NTSB is investigating after a small plane went down in Leicester, leaving three people and a dog to be rescued.

Federal authorities are investigating the cause of a small plane crash that sent three people to the hospital.

Youths on snowmobiles helped rescue three people and a dog after a small plane came crashing down in Leicester, Massachusetts, Tuesday.

After a small plane went down Tuesday in Leicester, three passengers and a dog that was on board are safe.

Officer Luis Tarraza was just starting his shift on Sunday morning when he got a call about a woman who refused to leave a hotel. It’s a call he gets often, he said, and thought he knew what he was going to walk into. When we got there, he found a woman who he estimated was in her 60’s....

When an older homeless woman said she didn’t have any money and nowhere to go, Chelsea Police Officer Luis Tarraza paid for her to stay the night at a hotel.

A couple of passersby gave CPR to a four-year-old boy who was found in an above ground pool Monday. The mother of the boy found in him in the water at their home on Lawton Road in Shirley around 4:30 p.m. and ran to the road yelling for help. A woman began giving him CPR and later told police she…

A couple of passersby gave CPR to a four-year-old boy who was found in an above ground pool Monday in Shirley, Massachusetts.

A woman who was trapped in a sinking car was saved by a Good Samaritan in Grafton, Massachusetts. Authorities say the car was heading down Wheeler Road late Friday night when it slid on black ice, causing the driver to lose control and sending the car off the roadway, into a river. The man who was driving was able to…

A passing motorist helped free a female passenger who was trapped in a sinking car.

Police have identified the good Samaritan who was hit and killed by a vehicle overnight on Interstate 495 in Raynham, Massachusetts, while trying to help another driver whose car was disabled after hitting a deer. Luis Contreras, 37, of Taunton, was walking on the highway to offer assistance when he was hit by a 2006 Infiniti G35 driven by a...

A good Samaritan was fatally hit by a car on Interstate 495 in Raynham, Massachusetts while trying to help another driver who hit a deer.

A stray cat found bruised and lying in a pool of blood, is recovering at the Animal Rescue League of Boston thanks to a good Samaritan. A facilities worker found the 2-year-old Snowshoe cat earlier this week by an outdoor staircase in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood and called ARL Field Services, according to the ARL. Witnesses told the ARL that...

Hartford police say a 6-week-old baby was left on a sidewalk, but a Good Samaritan acted to keep that child safe.

The fiancée of a man who was killed after stopping to help a crashed driver on the Pine Valley Creek Bridge Wednesday said her husband-to-be was the kind of guy who would help anybody at any time.

A good Samaritan stopped a man who allegedly threw an 11-year-old girl into his car and tried to kidnap her, law enforcement sources said.

Debra Tomaszewski says she saw it all unfold from her deck — six people were caught in a powerful rip current off Seabrook Beach in New Hampshire. “We just heard these blood curdling screams for help,” said Tomaszewski. Her son, Matthew, immediately jumped into the water and saved several lives, even before emergency crews arrived. But Mike and Laura Cote...