A hiker from New York said he is lucky to be alive after he got pinned for more than seven hours under a 5-ton boulder — leaving him so convinced he would die, he got his buddy to call his mom ...

A hiker in Southern California was pinned underneath a massive boulder on a hillside for seven hours until volunteers freed him in a bold nighttime rescue last week, officials said Friday.

Three police officers have been charged in the death of a Northern California man who was pinned facedown on the ground for more than five minutes. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office ...

Search and rescue volunteers in California carried out a dramatic midnight ... and found the hiker “in great pain with his left leg pinned beneath a large boulder on a steep hillside ...