Cyclist gets leg amputated after hit-and-run
A bicyclist may lose his leg after being struck by a hit-and-run truck in Midtown early Friday, police sources said.
View ArticleHow surfer got ‘revenge’ after shark tore off his leg
In 2011, Eric Dargent was surfing in the Indian Ocean when a shark attacked him in the kind of gruesome scene that’s typically found in horror movies. “My leg was ripped off in a few seconds,” Dargent...
View ArticlePipeline protester faces amputation after clash with cops
The father of a 21-year-old woman from New York said his daughter was seriously injured while protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. Wayne Wilansky said 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky...
View ArticleAmputee model struts his stuff on the catwalk
Despite having his leg amputated at 16 years old, Jack Eyers isn’t letting anything hold him back. He just became the first male amputee to walk in New York’s Fashion Week, along with building up a...
View ArticleLittle gymnast with a prosthetic leg flips expectations
Delaney Dunlap, a young girl from Loveland, Ohio, is becoming a local gymnastics star. The 8-year-old was born with a bone missing in her leg — a condition known as fibular hemiphilia. Her parents said...
View ArticleSoccer plane-crash amputee returns ‘home’ to walk again
Without his teammates and without a leg, Jakson Follmann is again training at the Chapecoense home field. Follmann, one of the six survivors of the Brazilian team’s Nov. 28 plane crash in Colombia, is...
View ArticleRare case of strep leads to father’s quadruple amputation
A Michigan father whose seemingly ordinary stomach pains turned out to be an extremely rare case of strep throat is now facing a series of procedures to amputate his hands and feet. Kevin Breen, 44,...
View ArticleDouble amputee who served in Afghanistan to become cop
A Marine war veteran who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan will fulfill a lifelong dream Friday when he graduates from the Suffolk County Police Academy — and becomes one of the nation’s first...
View ArticleMarine who lost both legs in Afghanistan sworn in as cop
A Long Island man who served in the Marines and lost both legs below the knees after stepping on a bomb in Afghanistan was sworn in Friday as possibly the first fully active duty double amputee police...
View ArticleTeacher turns amputated finger into cosplay comedy
A New Jersey teacher, Allison Bartle, is making comedic scenes with her amputated finger to encourage others to embrace their differences.
View ArticleMan has both legs amputated after spider bite
A Melbourne man has had both legs amputated, and faces a real risk of losing his arms, after he was bitten by a white-tailed spider in Western Victoria. Terry Pareja was visiting family in Birchip when...
View Article17-year-old race car driver loses both legs in head-on crash
LONDON — More than $220,000 has been donated to help a British racing driver who has had both legs amputated while in an induced coma after being involved in a high-speed crash. Billy Monger, a...
View ArticleCancer-stricken beauty queen gets knee replaced with ankle
A Texas beauty queen has undergone a radical surgery that allowed her to use her ankle as her knee after having her leg amputated. Jesse Williams, 20, of Odem, was a gifted college volleyball player...
View ArticleAmputee says hospital security guards mangled her prosthetic leg
A Long Island amputee says a local hospital literally left her without a leg to stand on. Sue Grube, 62, of Westhampton Beach, claims in a new lawsuit that a pair of security guards broke her...
View ArticleDouble amputee sues airline for mistaking his disability as being drunk
A double amputee from Florida is suing American Airlines for placing him under arrest after they mistook his hobbled walk for that of a drunk, he alleges. Michael Mennella, whose lower legs were...
View ArticleMan loses part of his leg in wood chipper accident
Authorities say a 72-year-old Long Island man has lost part of his leg after it got caught in a wood chipper he was operating. Suffolk County police say Robert Fischer was using a wood chipper outside...
View ArticleAmputee model proves her many doubters wrong
This amputee bombshell is beating the odds. Shaholly Ayers, a congenital amputee who was born without her lower right arm, has opened up living out her dream as a fashion model despite being told...
View ArticleAmputee injured by subway says MTA ‘turned its back on safety’
A Brazilian architectural student whose arm and leg were severed by a Brooklyn subway train is now seeking to shame the MTA into installing straphanger-saving barriers. Transit officials know that in...
View ArticleNationals owner is ‘cancer-free’ after having his leg amputated
WASHINGTON — Washington Nationals owner Mark Lerner said Thursday night in a letter to a Washington Post columnist that he had cancer and had his left leg amputated. In the letter to columnist Barry...
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