 August is hot and so are the savings at Appalachian Wireless, where all smartphones are 50% off. Even the 64, 128, and 256-gauge models, two-year agreement required. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless and East Kentucky Network Company. To many, heroes wear capes and sometimes soar through the sky, but for one Pike County teenager, her hero wears gray and drives a police cruiser. The first thing I wanted to do was just hug him. As Taylor Sowers was driving along U.S. 23 in door in Tuesday, she says a state police trooper stopped a vehicle from hitting her head on. Any time that I would slow down or speed up a little bit, he'd come right back up beside me and I was just wondering, you know, what he was doing. I had no idea and I wasn't going to pass a call. A man was driving north in the southbound lanes at a high rate of speed. Trooper Brad Hamilton received a call of the man and was trying to find him. Taylor says he saved her life in the process. The next thing I know, he's over in the median and a car is coming straight at us going the opposite way and I swerved over and he swerved over and he just went after him and ended up catching him. You don't really understand until your life is spared and I just don't think that I ever did anything to deserve that and it's just truly amazing that we have officers around here that are willing to do that for us. Saturday is Taylor's 19th birthday. Today, Taylor and her mom were able to meet their hero. I cannot thank him enough. No gift would ever be enough. No amount of praise would ever be enough because he saved my daughter's life. Trooper Hamilton was thankful to meet the Sourds. He says any one of his colleagues would have done the same thing and he was simply doing his job. Taylor says otherwise. He spared my life and I'm here today because of him. In Pikeville, Shelby Still, EKB News.