Author: Jewels Phraner

On June 12, 2012, Kyle Robert Hardman, while a deckhand on a towboat plying the waters of the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Mo., gave his life in an attempt …

Mitchell L. McLean, 54, a chief district court judge from North Wilkesboro, N.C., died July 3, 2013 after attempting to save Maryanne Galway and others from drowning in the Atlantic …

High school teacher Richard Irvin Moore of Laguna Niguel, Calif., rescued Jana Lutteropp, 20, from a shark attack at Wailea, Hawaii, on August 14, 2013.  Lutteropp was snorkeling in the …

Connecticut State Trooper Nicholas P. Leary, an awardee of the Carnegie Medal, and his three-year-old K-9 partner Elvis apprehend criminals, locate missing persons, and serve as ambassadors to school groups …

Steven L. Rogge was the 24th resident of the state of New Mexico to be awarded the Carnegie Medal. Rogge, 40 years old at the time of his heroic act, …

Mortgage banker John Nash Hale, 59, was up early on Jan. 14, 2013, so early it was still dark outside, and further, there was a heavy fog in his neighborhood …

Officers Jason Ewing of the Clarkston, Wash., Police Department, center, and Dustin E. Hibbard of the Lewiston, Idaho, Police Department, right, received their Carnegie Medals from Lewiston Mayor Kevin Poole …

Michael T. McDonnell and Dylan Patrick Smith teamed up to rescue six people from drowning on Oct. 29, 2012, the day that Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeast coast of the …

Connor M. Bystrom, 24, of Holmes Beach, Fla., who was awarded the Carnegie Medal in June 2012, was cited for the same rescue when he was given the U.S. Coast …

High school student Alec Justin Smith, 16, of San Jose, Calif., saved a boy from going over Vernal Fall in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on April 9 last year. A …

Thomas St. John Harding, 51, a private investigator from May Landing, N.J., rescued Steve J. Felice, 44, from an assault in Elmer, N.J., on April 8, 2011. Felice was attempting …

A family journey culminated on July 8 of 2013 with the placing of one of the Hero Fund’s bronze grave markers on the headstone of the Rev. Ernest Newton, the …

Jeffery Scott Dinkins, 41, a college student from Lewisville, N.C., died after helping to save a girl from drowning in the Atlantic Ocean at Myrtle Beach, S.C., on July 7, …

In case you’ve ever wondered where missing socks go on laundry day, Carnegie Medal awardee Jason W. Thurston of Northport, Maine, has solved the mystery: They escape through the vent …

State law and her employer’s policies kept Massachusetts State Trooper Allyson Powell, left, from accepting a financial grant from the Hero Fund, but she was free to donate it to …