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Sen. Ted Cruz had an emotional opening to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation meeting on Wednesday ...

Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Ruskan might be the biggest hero we’ve seen in the past 20 years. Ruskan is being hailed as a ...

A 26-year-old New Jersey native is being hailed as a hero for his part in saving at least 165 people from Friday’s ...

Petty Officer Ruskan, 26, was called out to Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp that was housing 750 girls when the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — A rescue swimmer assigned to U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi is being called a hero for ...

WARREN COUNTY, N.J. - A Warren County, New Jersey native is being hailed a hero for saving more than 160 people during the deadly flooding in Texas. 26-year-old Scott Ruskan, a Petty Officer in the U.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Ruskan rescued over 200 people during his first mission over the weekend from floods that ...

A young Coast Guard member saves 165 people and one man who lost his family to a flood is working to help those affected this year.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — US Coast Guard-Sector Corpus Christi Rescue Swimmer Scott Ruskan is being called "An American Hero" ...

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer from New Jersey was singled out as a hero after saving the lives of nearly 200 people over ...