Mar. 15, 2025
As flames tore through the Pacific Palisades, a man took on a difficult rescue mission, driving uphill through smoke and flying embers to save a woman and her pets from danger.
Los Angeles-based producerCaleb Serban-Lawlerwas doing what he could to help out in the outskirts of thePalisades Fire— the largest blaze of thewildfires currently ripping across Southern California— the evening of Jan. 7 when he was confronted with a life-or-death situation.
Mar. 15, 2025
Jamie Rose Bolin (left); and Kevin Ray Underwood.Photo:AP Photo (2)
AP Photo (2)
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An Oklahoma man was executed for the 2006 murder of a 10-year-old girl who he’d lured into his apartment to fulfill a cannibalistic fantasy.
Jamie lived with her father in the same building as Underwood at the time of the murder, the AP reported.
Jamie Rose Bolin.Family photo
Underwood, a former grocery store worker, hit the 10-year-old with a cutting board after luring her into his residence, per AP,The Norman TranscriptandThe Oklahoman.
Mar. 15, 2025
A Colorado pet store, Perfect Pets, suffered its third robbery in February on Sunday, Feb. 23, after three men allegedly staged a medical emergency to steal two bulldog puppies, a store employee tells PEOPLE.
Three men entered Perfect Pets, which is in Centennial, Colo. (approximately 15 miles south of Denver), around 1:30 p.m. local time before they grabbed two of the English Bulldog puppies that were priced at $4,299 each, according to the Perfect Pets employee and Arapahoe County Sheriff’s press (ACSO) release.
Mar. 15, 2025
A photo of an eastern brown snake.Photo:Universal Images Group via Getty Stock Photos
Universal Images Group via Getty Stock Photos
A man in Australia doing post-holiday shopping discovered he had picked up an unexpected hitchhiker.
According toYahoo News, the man was walking to his vehicle on Dec. 27 after finishing some shopping in Brisbane, Queensland, and spotted an eastern brown snake slithering under the hood of his car.
The snake species is “highly venomous,” according to Snake Catchers Brisbane & Gold Coast, a 24/7 snake removal service, who responded to the call about the eastern brown snake hiding in the car.
Mar. 15, 2025
An Illinois man recently discovered ahidden treasurebehind a wall in his childhood home.Tim King, owner ofT.King Construction Servicesin Lombard, told PEOPLE that he was helping his parents with a home renovation project when he found a Christmas present with his name on it — from decades ago — behind a bathroom wall.“We took out a medicine cabinet before we drywalled and I thought, ‘I’d better just look in there to make sure nothing’s back there,’ ” King, 53, tells PEOPLE.