Louis Zamperini won’t get to be at the premier of the movie about his incredible life. He won’t get to fulfill his appointment as next year’s Rose Bowl parade grand marshall. He died this morning at age 97, more proof that life isn’t fair. He was so impressive as a track and field star at Read more →
The Minneapolis man, pulled to safety by the superhuman strength of a Woodbury man, got a chance to meet each other again.
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If the day’s news is enough to make you question the decency and sanity of humans, then the Carnegie Foundation couldn’t have picked a better day to release its list of Carnegie Heroes. Read more →
A story circulating thanks to a post on a Washington state hospice’s Facebook page is so sweet that one wonders why they waited three months to tell it. No matter. We’re not so overwhelmed with these sorts of tales that we can turn up our nose at three-month-old stories. Read more →
Kids today, eh? Hunter Gandee, 14, had to battle heat, rain, 40 miles of road, and the weight on his back yesterday when he carried his 7-year-old brother on his back to raise awareness of cerebral palsy. At about 30 miles, he was thinking of giving up. It took 30 hours to reach their destination. Read more →
This moment, caught on a security camera in Canada, pretty well destroys everything we’ve been told about being in a vehicle during a thunderstorm.
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In San Diego over the Memorial Day weekend, the mobility scooter of a Vietnam Vet ran out of juice, leaving him stranded along the road.
Even the typical ‘police lingo’ in the official report can’t take the humanity out of the story. Read more →
Ben Pierce, 9, is going blind and there are a few things he wants to see before he can’t see. Read more →
Don’t you just hate it when you stick $40,000 in your couch and you forget you put it there? Read more →
Darlene Sugg, 47, was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2010. Though she went into remission, the disease eventually spread and she was dying. But she had a dream to see her daughter, Megan, graduate from high school. Read more →
South Carolina officer Gaetano Acerra delivers on the police promise to protect — and serve. Read more →
The next time someone dismisses Twitter as just a place where you post about what you’re having for lunch, tell them the story of Torri Biddle, 19, an Ohio woman who was born without an arm. Read more →
Two news stories today involve people who helped people they’ve never met. As a result, a boy in Kabul is going to school and a two-year-old in Pine City is getting a kidney. Read more →
Off-duty bus driver Surjit Singh Virk took these pictures Saturday near Vancouver when he saw something he thinks the rest of the world should see. Read more →
When Stephen Sutton of the UK learned he had bowel cancer at 15, and learned he was terminal at 17, he used his Facebook page to chronicle all the things he wanted to do before he dies. He wanted to skydive. He did. He wanted to play drums in a band at Wembley Stadium. He did. He wanted to crowd surf. He did. He also wanted to raise more than $1.6 million for cancer research and he was far short of his goal when he posted his goodbye on Facebook this week. Read more →
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