Five UGA students went on a road trip. They returned home as heroes after saving lives

The University of Georgia referred to the young female students as the “Fearless Five.” The label didn’t exactly fit, though. On a recent afternoon in a murky creek in rural Georgia, the five first-year students, all still teenagers, had fears. They were losing hope. Still, they didn’t give up. And a distraught mom whose SUV flew off a two-lane road says the UGA students are likely the reason why her two young sons didn’t die. “There is a reason to every little thing” that happens in our lives, one of...