Posts Tagged ‘Survivors’

Giffords’ meeting with fellow survivors in Tucson (AP)

FILE - This  Jan. 8, 2012 file photo shows Rep. Gabrielle Giffords waving at the start of a memorial vigil remembering the victims and survivors one year after the Arizona congresswoman was wounded in a shooting that killed six in Tucson, Ariz. Giffords announced, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012 she will resign from Congress this week. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)AP – In one of her last acts in office, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords met Monday with other survivors and supporters more than a year after gunfire interrupted a spontaneous meet-and-greet with constituents outside a Tucson grocery store.


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Hunt is on for cruise survivors

Two Minnesota senior citizens were among 17 people still missing amid a desperate cabin-to-cabin hunt on the crippled cruise ship Costa Concordia that sank off Tuscany.

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Hunt on for survivors of doomed ship 

Two Americans were among 17 people still missing amid a desperate cabin-to-cabin hunt on the crippled cruise ship Costa Concordia that sank off Tuscany.

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Coast guard: 2 survivors found on stricken ship (AP)

AP – An Italian coast guard official says rescuers heard the shouts of of two survivors aboard a cruise liner that ran aground off Tuscany a day earlier and are looking for the man and the woman.

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End Zone: Sex abuse survivors talk about scandal

The Daily News has been chronicling sexual abuse in New York sports for nearly a decade, ever since we were the first to report in 2002 that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office was investigating allegations that Ernest Lorch, the powerful founder of the Riverside Church basketball program, had sexually abused players.

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Searchers in Turkey hope for more quake survivors (AP)

Emergency workers carry a youth they rescued from the rubble and debris of a collapsed building in Ercis, eastern Turkey, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Dozens of people were trapped in mounds of concrete, twisted steel and construction debris after hundreds of buildings in two cities and mud-brick homes in nearby villages pancaked or partially collapsed in Sunday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP – Thousands of people have spent a second night outdoors in near-freezing conditions in eastern Turkey, afraid to return to their homes following a deadly earthquake that has been followed by hundreds of aftershocks.


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Turks weep as survivors, bodies pulled from rubble (AP)

Rescuers work to save people from of collapsed buildings in Ercis, Van,  eastern Turkey, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. . At least 270 people are killed after a powerful quake in eastern Turkey and dozens of people are still trapped in hills of debris, but authorities hope the death toll may not rise as high as initially feared. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP – Turkish families wept in joy and sorrow Monday as a few lucky survivors and many more victims were pulled out of the rubble after a 7.2-magnitude quake leveled over a hundred apartment and office buildings.


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