Clinton couple share their story of cardiac arrest survival

As was their custom, Russ and Annette Charles rose before the sun Thursday morning to spend time talking, checking Facebook, and reading the news together before heading off their separate directions to work.

This morning, the Clinton, Mo., couple was causally discussing the 100-mile century bicycle race Russ would compete in that weekend, and where along the route Annette could best meet him with drinks and snacks to fuel his body.

Annette was facing away from him when she heard Russ make a funny noise. She glanced over to where he was sitting at the computer to see what funny meme he’d seen on Facebook.

Instead, what she saw was her 53-year-old husband slumped in a chair, not breathing.

Speeding drunk driver crashes into trailer carrying three generations of one family

It was a perfect family day. Shane and Jennifer Hall and their four children spent Saturday morning attending their oldest son's football game in Harrisonville, Mo., before heading to his parent's farm near Oak Grove to spend the rest of the day.

Shane, Jennifer and their kids help his parents grow large gardens there, and it was time to harvest the pumpkins. They hitched the hay wagon to the tractor and filled it with pumpkins from the field.