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It’s an all-too-familiar story: Someone hits the gas instead of the brake pedal. But they don’t all end up in bays. And they certainly don’t all have 17-year-olds diving after them.

Dramatic rescue footage showed four injured sailors stranded after their boat was badly damaged in rough seas 80 miles south of Long Island, and the daring rescue to attempt to save them.

A Brooklyn speech and debate teacher was on the verge of going broke after spending thousands of dollars of his own money to help his students compete in Ivy League tournaments — until a popular Instagram page got wind of his story.

It’s not known how much was so generously shared, but a man was seen for about a minute throwing bills into the air from the second floor of a New Jersey mall in an unusually kind gesture.

A beloved mail carrier who worked 33 years for the United States Post Office celebrated his retirement on Saturday with the Northern Virginia neighborhood he served for more than half of that time.

News4’s photojournalist Jake Schoenmann captured a retirement party for Robert Gillis, who has worked for the U.S. Post Office for 33 years.

An Alexandria resident celebrated his 100th birthday on Tuesday, a major milestone in the life of a man that his loved ones insisted on marking.

City leaders in Alexandria reflected on one veteran’s service and his life since in Northern Virginia. News4’s Derick Ward has the story.

When Mary Elliott did find the ticket, some barcode-blocking coffee stains added another potential hurdle to claiming her prize.

A screen-savvy New Jersey toddler somehow managed to order close to $2,000 worth of furniture online from Walmart.

The mother was screaming and Cecilia Morales, who joined the TSA in October, tried to tell her what to do. She was too panicked — so Morales quite literally leaped into action.

An unsigned letter, a phony return address — and a cardboard box full of cash. That’s what one professor found as he was going through old mail in his office at City College of New York.

It’s enough lights to blind Clark Griswold’s neighbors — in fact, it’s 25 times as many lights as the beloved Chevy Chase character put on his house.

A little girl who lost a teddy bear she’d had since being adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage thought it was gone forever when she forgot it along a trail in Glacier National Park last year

Good Samaritans and members of TV mob show “Gravesend” acted quickly to free the 14-year-old who was struck by the out-of-control vehicle as he was walking his dog.

The owner of a New Jersey pet store said that three rare, expensive birds that were stolen from the shop over the weekend have been returned, along with an apology note.

The vehicle wasn’t in park — and started to roll forward onto a sidewalk where students were standing, officials say. The parent wasn’t anywhere near the car.

The backyard for the Cifuni family is usually a calm and relaxing place, but that was interrupted Saturday afternoon when an unexpected visitor showed up at the pool: a baby deer, struggling to swim.

The San Diego Padres gave 15-year-old Landis Sims an honorary contract with the team. The rising baseball star, who was born limb deficient, wowed Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove with a game of catch on the Petco Park field on Sunday.

Then-Yankees general manager Roy Hamey wrote Gwen Goldman a letter on June 23, 1961, in which he denied her request to be a ball girl, saying: “I am sure you can understand that it is a game dominated by men a young lady such as yourself would feel out of place in a dugout.”