Newspaper Carrier Saves Former Mayor from Cold

By: Andrew Beaujon | Poynter

The deep cold affecting much of the country hasn’t slowed down newspaper carrier heroism:

Kansas City Star carrier Jeff Stockwell heard what sounded like “the wail of a cat desperate to get inside” while delivering papers early Monday, Tony Rizzo reports. He found former Shawnee, Kan., Mayor Tony Soetaert, who’d fallen while taking out the trash and had been stuck for nearly an hour.