A stamp series commemorating famous pop musicians such as Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, with Queen Elizabeth II’s royal cipher on each stamp, has been issued to help raise funds for the Montserrat Volcano Relief Fund.
Portland Trail Blazers basketball star, Jermaine O'Neal has an angel...at least his mother thinks so. He was trapped in his car in a ditch after a truck slammed into him and left the scene in early December.
A Canadian man who won $1 million in a lottery for charity plans to give it all back. “I bought a ticket for $100, thinking I would be giving $100 to charity -- now I can give $1 million!â€
County Judge Donald McDonough revealed his generous heart in the settlement of an eviction case brought before him on June 23rd. He paid their back rent.
Tornados hit La Plata, Maryland killing three people and ruining 400 homes. The entire town center was destroyed. After the devastation another force came to town: the Amish. A gang of volunteers came.
It may sound scary for a teenager to be handling radiation, but Taylor Wilson's radioactive rocks are safe. There's never been any reason for concern, until he decided to build his own reactor -- in his garage. He was trying to produce nuclear fission -- because he thought he could. There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents, he said.
Martin Sheen commanded the stage with his impassioned portrayal of an attorney arguing for gay-marriage rights; Brad Pitt dazzled as a federal judge. Clooney also performed in the star-studded LA premiere of 8, a play about the court fight against Proposition 8.
The people of the small conservative town of Latta in South Carolina are rallying to the defense of their sheriff, Crystal Moore, after she was fired and condemned by the mayor because her lifestyle was "questionable."
An immigration judge in Newark on Friday suspended the deportation of a Venezuelan man who is married to an American man, responding to an unusual signal this week from the Obama administration that it is exploring legal avenues for recognizing same-sex marriages in immigration cases.
Many people would be willing to donate a quarter for wildlife conservation, reckoned Norman Gershenz, a conservation biologist at San Francisco State University.
Biological diversity does not come easily in one of the most crowded and disadvantaged neighborhoods of Los Angeles County. One school, wanting only to beautify their campus, got an unexpected result after ripping out concrete and planting native flora. Kids' test scores in science rose sixfold.
A Los Angeles-based fashion designer is starting an urban garden revolution in his neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. Instead of vacant lots -- the city owns miles and miles of these in LA county -- Ron Finley wants to help residents to plant a million tomato plants. He is co-founder of LA Green Grounds, a company that plants gardens at low-income homes as a part of a recovery system to transform neighborhoods.
In one of the world's biggest and most polluted cities, rooftop gardens are springing up in an effort to battle the smog, part of an initiative driven by Mexico City's government --mainly targeting schools and hospitals.
A former landfill in a Rio de Janeiro slum has been turned into a park thanks to a group of dedicated volunteers. People came here to get rid of old refrigerators, stoves, tires and even their dead dogs, said Mauro Quintanilha, a musician and craftsman who started the initiative to create a green oasis out of the pungent garbage dump.
Planting begins this month for a group of students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who are pioneering a sustainable solution for campuses across the country. The UMass Permaculture Committee is transforming a 12,000 square foot conventional grass lawn into a sustainable permaculture garden for supplying fresh food to its campus community.
By the time Cesar Gutierrez was 16, he had already gone to jail twice, experimented with gang life, sold drugs and ran away from home. Today, the 22-year-old works at a popular Manhattan restaurant as a sous chef and has cooked with renown chef Daniel Boulud.
When Jihad Dib was appointed principal of Punchbowl Boys High School at age 33, it was a hotbed of violence and trouble. His modern and successful approach to reforming the school has transformed the student body and staff into a family, and recently earned him a Pride of Australia medal.
The National Football League began reopening for business after player union leaders announced a new 10-year collective bargaining agreement with the league owners Monday. Meanwhile, NFL players, knowing the lockout took a toll on their fans, contributed to a thank you video for fans.
Ted Komada, the music teacher who started a chess club nine years ago at Killip Elementary School, hoped to help the mostly low-income students build confidence. Now, his chess team heads to the national finals, after having won five consecutive state championships in Arizona.
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon was celebrating Video Game Week recently and asked the TV show's fans to record scenes of themselves playing video games with their moms. Most moms have never done any gaming and are unfamiliar with handheld controllers. Hilarity ensues.