Los Angeles residents have found a new hero through an alligator who has defied captors and won local hearts for over the past week. After several unsuccessful attempts in capturing the clever alligator, officials have decided to suspend the search fearing that the unwilling prey might eventually become stressed from the whole ordeal.

Los Angeles residents have found a new hero through an alligator who has defied captors and won local hearts for over the past week. After several unsuccessful attempts in capturing the clever alligator, officials have decided to suspend the search fearing that the unwilling prey might eventually become stressed from the whole ordeal.

In the midst of a Toronto neighborhood rests a 13-1/2 foot bronze and granite monument depicting Alexander Wood, famous for both owning the land on which the community now sits, and for being run out of town due to sexual scandal in the early 1800s. The statue of a hero in Toronto's gay community is the cause of concern both for the actions of the man it depicts and for the somewhat graphic description of the 19th-Century sex scandal that made him famous.

12-year-old, Amber Mooneyham, is being called a hero today after driving her wounded mother to safety. Hester Wiggins, 30, prepared to take her daughter, Amber, and son, Dalton, to school and the babysitter early Monday morning, but were confronted by an unwanted visitor. Curtis Wiggins, 44, was waiting for his wife outside and when she appeared. He shot her and fled. as the children watched, they were unharmed. 12-year-old Amber immediately took action, pushing her dying mother aside and taking the wheel of the car. Police reported that the girl drove her brother and mother several miles to the babysitter's home where the girl crashed in the front yard. The babysitter told authorities that Amber immediately shouted for help, claiming "Curtis shot Mamma!" Despite her heroic efforts, Amber Mooneyham's mother, Hester Wiggins, didn't survive.