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Search for the USS Grunion

Search for the USS Grunion

Decades after 70 men disappeared on the USS Grunion, a Navy submarine, their families kept searching. See photos of the remarkable search.

Shark! How One Surfer Survived an Attack

Shark! How One Surfer Survived an Attack

When a two-ton predator caught surfer Todd Endris in its jaws, an unlikely group of swimmers came to his rescue.

By Cathy Free in Reader's Digest - July 2008

Shipwrecked

A family's dream trip turns into a nightmare.

By Kenneth Miller in Reader's Digest - July 2006

Shocked!

Sometimes when lightning strikes, you're not even safe indoors.

By Lisa Collier Cool in Reader's Digest - June 2006

Showdown

At the crest of a hill in Kansas City, Missouri, in the old stone house on Grandview Road where he had been born, Donin Wright and his girlfriend, Janet Clark, held loaded rifles. ...

By Anita Bartholomew in Reader's Digest - March 2005

Snowbound Couple

Snowbound Couple

They expected to be home by midnight. But when a blizzard blew in, Tom and Tamitha Garner's pilgrimage to photograph a herd of mustangs turned into a fight for survival.

By Kenneth Miller in Reader's Digest - June 2008

Swept Away

It was the perfect gift for his dad -- an adventure on an Alaska river. Until they capsized in icy water.

By Andrea Cooper in Reader's Digest - November 2003

The Heroes of the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

When the bridge started to groan, and the pillars of concrete and steel twisted and crumbled in a terrible roar, these people rushed in to help.

By Christopher W. Davis in Reader's Digest - November 2007

The Inventor

Don Schoendorfer invented the world's cheapest wheelchair to give away to those in need.

in Reader's Digest - July 2005

The Neighbor From Hell

What would you do if your family and your home became a target?

By Melba Newsome in Reader's Digest - August 2006

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