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Tampa Bay Lawyer Holds Contest to Give Away Free Home to Family in Need

A Florida attorney who helps families fight foreclosure, wants to help a family in a major way this holiday season. Mark Stopa plans to give away a home to a family in need.

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Employees Donate From Paychecks for 6 Months to Help Family They Never Met

A group of 55 employees donated money from their paychecks for six months to buy a wheelchair accessible van for someone they didn't even know, a family of seven who has a little boy with a rare genetic disorder. They surprised the family with a big, new MV-1 parked outside their home two days before Thanksgiving.

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Anonymous 'Santa' Pays off $50K in Layaway Balances for Shoppers at PA Walmart

Last week we heard about an anonymous woman paying off $20,000 in layaway account balances in a Toys-R-Us store in Massachusetts. This week, a man, who only wanting to be known as "Santa B.", settled all the accounts for 100 holiday shoppers at a Pennsylvania Walmart -- paying $50,000 for the pleasure.

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See the Reaction When Hundreds of Shoppers Get Their Purchases Free for Christmas

A family-owned department store chain decided to give customers at each of its 213 midwestern stores the ultimate Christmas surprise. All their items at check out time -- whether toys, electronics or kitchen appliances -- were given to them for free, compliments of Meijer stores.

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Foster Father of 50,000 Gives Back After Growing Up in Poverty

From sleeping in the streets and being recruited as a child soldier, Dr. Amporn rose from the dust to become the foster father of 50,000 Thai children.

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Boston Teacher Donates $150,000 Prize To Her School

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Monday honored a Dorchester third grade teacher who won a $150,000 online contest and donated the prize to her school.

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Amazing Woman Given $50K for Her Anti-Mayhem Work With DC Kids

Hannah Hawkins, founder of the Children of Mine Youth Center, gives kids of all ages a safe place to learn and play, fenced off from the mean streets of Washington D.C. Those streets are where, in the '70s, her husband was robbed and murdered. She decided to dedicate her life to making a positive change in her community. After many years operating only with volunteers, she received a $50,000 check from 5-hour Energy Helps.

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Father Pushes His Musically Gifted Son's Wheelchair In The University Of Louisville's Marching Band.

Patrick Henry Hughes is blind but plays in the University of Louisville pep band thanks to the lengths his father will go to help his son.