good Samaritan

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.

In an interview with NBC Bay Area’s sister station Telemundo 48, the mother of a baby kidnapped this week says the experience as a mother is something that she does not wish on anyone, something that she is still not over. Kris Sanchez reports.

After 18 months on the job, Good Samaritan Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr. Klaus Thaler will be stepping down from his position in October. The pending departure comes after the Investigative Unit confirmed with multiple hospital sources another executive – Associate Chief Nursing Officer Damian Gulbransen— recently left her position at Good Sam after 11 months.

The chief medical officer at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose announced he is leaving. This comes after our Investigative Unit exposed serious violations that caught the attention of federal regulators. Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen reports.

In this episode: An Oakland man stops a DUI suspect from fleeing the seeing of a horrific crash. Plus, a small plane crash lands in Palo Alto. And, a tragic accident at a BART station when a woman dies after being dragged on the train tracks.

A 20-year-old Oakland man is being hailed as a hero Monday for catching and literally stopping a suspect drunk driver who had slammed into a van full of children.

A 20-year-old Oakland man is being hailed as a hero Monday for catching and literally stopping a suspect drunk driver who had slammed into a van full of children. Ginger Conejero Saab reports.

In this episode: A good Samaritan helps stop a violent attack on an elderly person in San Francisco. Plus, San Francisco enforces new vaccination proof requirements for indoor businesses. And, air quality advisories have been extended into the weekend.

Jonathan Bauer came forward to speak about rescuing a 2-year-old girl thrown into a Maryland bay after a crash in Ocean City.

An owl is recovering in the East Bay after some quick-thinking Good Samaritans found it stuck in barbed wire.

Two men have died after a fiery car crash in Contra Costa County Friday, despite the efforts of multiple people who stopped and tried to save them – and it was all caught on video.

Two men have died after a fiery car crash in Contra Costa County Friday, despite the efforts of multiple people who stopped and tried to save them – and it was all caught on video. Thom Jensen reports.

With a shortage of personal protective equipment for medical workers in the front line of the battle against the novel coronavirus, one good Samaritan is stepping up and using a 3D printer to make medical gear to donate.

Hartford police say a 6-week-old baby was left on a sidewalk, but a Good Samaritan acted to keep that child safe.

The fiancée of a man who was killed after stopping to help a crashed driver on the Pine Valley Creek Bridge Wednesday said her husband-to-be was the kind of guy who would help anybody at any time.

A good Samaritan stopped a man who allegedly threw an 11-year-old girl into his car and tried to kidnap her, law enforcement sources said.

A Good Samaritan rescued an elderly man from a residential fire in Antioch Saturday morning.

A man suspected of setting fires near the Anaheim Hills Festival shopping center Friday was detained after a brave Ventura resident escaping one of Southern California’s wildfires sprung into action to stop him.

What would you do if you found an envelope filled with cash? It happened to Tracy Lipscomb of Torrey Highlands Monday. She decided to turn it in in the hopes that the rightful owner would claim it.

After finding and rightfully returning a $676 cashier’s check, a San Diego homeless man walked away with more than $15,000 and a new friend.