NURSE

Amanda Liesner is a nurse in the COVID ICU at Penn Presbyterian. Her twin sister Smanatha Liesner is battling breast cancer and in quarantine in Abington. Hyatt Hotels gave them both a free trip to the Caribbean as part of their “Hearts for Heroes” campaign. NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville helped surprise them both.

It’s a sad paradox but in some countries, assaults on doctors and medical workers illustrate how public fear and rage can turn against the very people risking their lives to save patients in a pandemic

The nurse and her husband sailed about 260 nautical miles from their home in Lynchburg all the way to Brooklyn, completing the trip in about two and a half days during winter on the Atlantic Ocean

Caitlin Tyrell took up the call to help fight the coronavirus in New York City. She quickly needed housing and found what appeared to be a legitimate property. But after paying a deposit and rent, she arrived to find there was no place for her to live. NBC10’s Wendy Saltzman reports.

A local nurse recovering from the novel coronavirus shares his story with NBC10’s Steven Fisher.

Lori Marie Key, a nurse at St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Michigan, sings “Amazing Grace” during a shift change.

An elderly woman chose not to visit her husband, who was dying from coronavirus complications, because she didn’t want to take the hospital’s limited personal protective equipment away from staffers.

Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Kimmel gave a nurse from St. George, Utah a sweet surprise on Thursday’s at-home edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!.”

Soldier is a service dog for a student at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth. This year he is included in the students’ yearbook, and he posed like a pro.

A 7-month-old mixed pit bull pup named Rudolph, who survived an overcrowded shelter that tried to euthanize him, has found his forever home, an animal shelter official said Tuesday. In a Jan. 16 Facebook post, the Kings Harvest No Kill Pet Rescue Shelter in Davenport, Iowa, described the experience of “this adorable young man” at another shelter. That post has...

A trio of police officers paid for an accused shoplifter’s groceries rather than arresting her at a Manhattan Whole Foods.

A man died while his daughter was hospitalized following a house fire in Florence Township, New Jersey. NBC10’s Cydney Long speaks to neighbors about the tragedy.

Here comes the… controversy. Australian Kmart — which has no relation to U.S. Kmart — yanked a child bride Halloween costume after more than 500 people signed an online petition claiming that it normalizes sex trafficking. “A child bride costume currently exists on Kmart shelves in children’s sizes. Tell Kmart this is beyond inappropriate and offensive and that they have...

A 58-year-old registered nurse accused of helping a heartbroken man end his life pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge.

“The Casagrandes,” Nickelodeon’s new original animated series that centers around an 11-year-old girl trying to survive a big city, is one of the first cartoons in the U.S. to feature a multigenerational Mexican American family. The long-awaited spin-off from the network’s popular animation series, “The Loud House,” premiered Monday and comes as more networks are taking chances on Latino-themed shows....

Nurses working at Monmounth Medical Center gave Benadryl to patients to “lighten the workload,” a lawsuit alleges

Prosecutors formally charged a New Jersey police officer accused of trying to meet a 15-year-old girl for sex.

Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series as “Julia,” has died. She was 84.

An ex-University of Delaware baseball player was convicted Friday of raping a woman whom he met online.

A 12-year-old girl born with a degenerative brain malformation was given a traditional bat mitzvah.