Officials said that a romance author who had been missing for more than two weeks had been discovered safe in Hawaii, putting an end to a harrowing ordeal that had caused concern and misunderstanding. Faleena Hopkins, 52, was found when her cellphone ping-ed Kauai mobile towers. Hopkins had acted the previous month erratically, speeding away…

Twelve days after a terrible earthquake devastated Turkey, a Turkish couple was rescued from the ruins of their apartment building. Unfortunately, their 12-year-old son, who was also recovered alive from the debris, passed away shortly thereafter, and two of their other children were discovered dead at the scene. Throughout the 12-day ordeal, Samir Muhammad Accar…

On Sunday, an alligator was discovered in a frigid New York City lake, far from the subtropical and tropical conditions in which these animals flourish. The 4-foot (1.2-meter) lizard was retrieved from Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn at 8:30 a.m. and transported to an animal care center before being rehabilitated at the Bronx Zoo. The…