“A serene quiet was transformed into a scary quiet really quickly.”

He lost his balance and tumbled in.

All of the birds were recovered and waddled away with their mom.

Police say the driver struck a pole and was trapped in his burning car on Sunday night.

They are setting up a tripod hoist to get the injured man out.

Two bystanders jumped down to the tracks at the U Street Metro station.

The man in the wheelchair suffered a broken wrist.

Many reports of a person on Metrorail tracks end badly. But last Thursday, the Pentagon City station saw some real-life heroics.

A Germantown, Md. couple got a very nice Christmas Day surprise when workers at Dulles International Airport recovered a dog the couple had brought over from Egypt but ran off as soon as he arrived two weeks ago.

First, a buck got his antlers caught in a fence in Mount Pleasant this morning. Then, another buck actually fell into the Tidal Basin and had to be rescued by the U.S. Park Police. What’s next?