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Hero NY Bus Driver on "Thanks for Giving" show Monday

A Buffalo, New York bus driver who talked a depressed woman off of a bridge is scheduled to appear on celebrity chef Rachael Ray's Thanks for Giving episode airing Monday in the US. The show says Darnell Barton's story is one of four to be highlighted in the show, which features an audience full of people who've been hailed as heroes.

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James Patterson Giving Cash to Bookstores

Independent bookstores, with their paper-thin profit margins and competition from Amazon, have found a sugar daddy in the person of famous author, James Patterson. The best-selling author has started a program to give away $1 million of his personal fortune to dozens of bookstores.

In Money-tight Britain, Artists Decorate the Streets

Since 2009 street artist Christiaan Nagel has placed over a hundred giant mushrooms on derelict rooftops around the London's East End to be enjoyed and photographed by passers-by. Unauthorized art in public places is booming in austerity Britain, as public funding dries up

Most Valuable Find Ever for Antiques Roadshow in Oklahoma

Chinese rhinoceros horn cups brought to the Antiques Roadshow on Saturday in Tulsa became the highest-value appraisal ever made by the PBS television show in its 16 year history. The unidentified man, who started collecting the carved cups inexpensively and had no idea of their worth, was told they were valued at 1-1.5 million dollars.

Diddy Pushes Youth to Vote Once Again

Hip-Hop legend Sean P. Diddy Combs campaigned across the country four years ago to get young people to vote and is at it again in 2008 trying to awaken a sleeping giant in an effort to make change.