Survivor


  1. Survivors recount horrors

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friends and relatives wait in the early morning Saturday for boats bringing survivors, at the dock of Safaga harbor in Egypt.

  2. Survivors pick up the pieces

  3. Survivors pick up the pieces

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Toby Hines looks over his demolished home on Saturday in Gallatin, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville.

  4. Crash survivor returns to derby

    John Schultz/QUAD-CITY TIMES Bevan Paarmann of Clinton, Iowa, sits on the trailer carrying his new demolition derby car, a Chevrolet Sprint. He hopes to enter this year’s demolition derby at the Clinton County Fair in DeWitt, the same place six years ago he was severely burned when his car caught fire. The number on the side of the car is the anniversary of the accident.

  5. Aftershocks frighten survivors

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An earthquake survivor carries her injured child toward a camp for displaced people Wednesday in Balakot, Pakistan. Relief workers raised their death estimate to 79,000.

  6. ‘He's a survivor'

    Photos by Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES Dawson DeCap is goofy, the kind of goofy only a 3-year-old can be. He also is very sick. The Geneseo, Ill., boy is battling a cancer called neuroblastoma, which damaged the bone marrow in his femur bones and left eye socket.

  7. Crash survivors tell of ordeal

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A couple look at the wreckage of the plane which crash-landed in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescue teams worked Sunday to recover the bodies of the remaining victims. Survivors marvelled at having lived through the ordeal.

  8. From sculpture to survivors

    (Contributed photo) Participants prepare for the candlelight march at Family Resources Inc.'s 2006 Take Back the Night event in The District in Rock Island.

  9. Anytime: Survivor, not a racer

    Jennifer Franklin makes friends with Anytime the Greyhound.

  10. Cancer survivor William Baker

    Cancer survivor William Baker, 81, of Davenport relaxes with some visiting relatives in his room at Manor Care. Baker was diagnosed around the turn of the year with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer. In his contribution to Stories of Hope, William Baker of Davenport writes: Cancer has changed my life because I used to be the one visiting people in nursing homes and hospitals, and it feels odd to have things the other way around.

  11. Cancer survivor William Baker

    Cancer survivor William Baker, 81, of Davenport relaxes with some visiting relatives in his room at Manor Care. Baker was diagnosed around the turn of the year with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer.

  12. Fund set up for crash survivor

    Shannon Lehman - Condition improves Thursday. Contributed Photo

  13. Hurricane survivors exchange wedding vows

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Keishona Frazier, 20, right, and Robbie Roby, 22, wait for the blessing Sunday from officiating minister Rev. Willie D. Frazier, Keishona's father. The chapel is in Gonzales, La., part of the Lamar Dixon Expo Center that houses about 1,800 Hurricane Katrina victims.

  14. Q-C honors survivors

    Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES Pearl Harbor survivor Eldon Baxter of Davenport, foreground, salutes during ceremonies held Wednesday at the American Legion Post 246 in Moline. Baxter was joined by three other veterans of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese sneak attack on U.S. Pacific forces. From left are A.J. Gerard of Aledo, Ill., Tim Dorothy of Moline (partially hidden) and Robert Cewe of Port Byron, Ill.

  15. Shooting survivor leads police to suspects

    Police stand outside a Waffle House restaurant Monday, March 11, 2002, in Davie, Fla., where, according to police, two workers were shot dead and a third critically wounded in an apparent robbery earlier Monday. No one had been arrested by midday, authorities said. (AP Photo)

  16. Holocaust survivor shares tale of escape

    (Jeff Cook/Quad-City Times) Holocaust survivor Philip Bialowitz of Little Neck, N.Y., shares his story of a harrowing uprising at a Nazi death camp during World War II.

  17. Holocaust survivor shares tale of escape

    (Jeff Cook/Quad-City Times) The audience listens to a speaker describe his experiences during the Holocaust during a ceremony at Tri-City Jewish Center in Rock Island.

  18. Holocaust survivor shares tale of escape

    (Jeff Cook/Quad-City Times) Quad-City resident Esther Schiff lights a candle Sunday to honor victims of the Holocaust during observance of Yom HaShoah at Tri-City Jewish Center in Rock Island.

  19. Sex abuse survivors dedicate monument

    (Jeff Cook/Quad-City Times) Jim O'Connor releases doves Sunday during a ceremony unveiling a monument dedicated to victims of abuse by clergy at SS Philip & James Catholic Church in Grand Mound, Iowa.

  20. Sex abuse survivors dedicate monument

    (Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES) Mike Rocca, of Tipton, Iowa, applauds at the unveiling of a monument to the survivors of clergy abuse Sunday at SS Philip & James Catholic Church in Grand Mound, Iowa.

  21. Survivors recall events of 25 years ago

    Kevin E. Schmidt/QUAD-CITY TIMES A scrapbook of newspaper articles and cards refresh the memories of Diane Claeys, left, Corrin Blandin and Colette Christensen, who were among 27 children and adults injured 25 years ago today when a Clinton County farmhouse exploded during a 4-H club meeting. Today, the three are leaders of the same club, the Iowanna Juniors.

  22. Pearl Harbor survivors remember Dec. 7, 1941

    Larry Fisher/QUAD-CITY TIMES Pearl Harbor survivor Eldon Baxter of Davenport shows a newspaper article about himself — telling how his parents were told he had died during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack — before ceremonies at the Moline American Legion Post 246 on Thursday morning.

  23. Lone survivor of mine blast remains in critical condition

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Anna McCloy, left, pauses during a news conference about her husband, Randal McCloy, Wednesday in Morgantown, W.Va., as West Virginia’s first lady Gayle Manchin, right, looks on. Randal McCloy was the only miner to survive Monday’s explosion at a coal mine in Upshur County. Twelve miners died.

  24. Survivors, sailors observe Pearl Harbor anniversary

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pearl Harbor survivor Gilbert Meyer salutes Wednesday during a ceremony marking the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor at the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii.

  25. Katrina survivors await Christmas with selfless spirit

    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - A weathered Santa wearing a dust mask stands in front of a home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in Chalmette, La.