Fifty five years ago, when Joyce was a young girl, she lost her parents after their small plane crash in a remote area of Washington state. Suddenly, Joyce is reliving happy memories after recently receiving a wondrous gift from a stranger.
At the Toys-R-Us store in Bellingham, Massachusetts a complete stranger became an angel for 154 customers. A woman this week walked into the store and told a cashier she wanted to pay off a layaway balance. "Which one?" she was asked. "All of them," she replied. For a total of $20,000.
Officer John Holder and 73-year-old widow Dorothy Shepard formed an unlikely friendship 6 months ago, after multiple surgeries left her recovering on her own. Every week he has taken her to doctors appointments and to run errands, mostly while he was off-duty. This was all a secret until a Walmart shopper snapped this photo and it went viral.
"A 92-year-old man is recovering in a Florida hospital after two Good Samaritans rescued him from his car, which had veered off the road and was sinking into a pond."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Following a series of crashes that shut down one of the busiest highways in America last Wednesday, Monroeville, Ohio residents John and Sharon Ambrose gathered as much food as they could, and delivered it to motorists who had been stranded for hours.
A Jersey City letter carrier found $4,800 in crisp $100 bills inside a wallet on the sidewalk while delivering mail on the day after a big snowstorm. The first thought that came to Marcario "Mark" Panuil was, I need to give it back to the owner. His Postal Service coworkers and the local Postmaster honored him as a great inspiration in a ceremony this week, where he refused to take a reward.
After a six-year-old girl in North Dakota mentioned that she was having trouble sleeping at night, a kind pharmacist decided to prescribe the antidote for her fears of monsters lurking in the room. The Examiner reports that pharmacist Jeff Dodds gave the girl a prescription spray bottle that he said would take care of the problem.
Cathy O'Grady wasn't planning on being identified. But somehow, the media caught wind of her random acts of kindness all over the city this winter after pictures surfaced online of dozens of blankets with $5 gift cards she left out for the homeless in December. Recently she planned a spree of 318 good deeds in honor of a friend, Chad, who survived for that many days after his cancer diagnosis.
Two sisters in Edmond, Oklahoma were having trouble sleeping, fraught with worry over whether their home was safe from crime. Their mother even began showing them the locked windows and doors each night and allowed them to sleep with baseball bat under the covers. Then, Lt. Paul Barbour, on his night shift patrol for the local police department, took a few minutes to pen a hand-written note to the girls assuring them that everything looked good in their neighborhood. He taped the note to the door.
Aboriginal AFL player and anti-racism campaigner Adam Goodes has been named the 2014 Australian of the Year. Goodes, a decorated Sydney football champion, was chosen from a diverse field of nominees that represented the best of scientific, medical, arts and community leaders.
An anonymous do-gooder trying to keep Ottawa residents warm has been leaving dozens of handmade scarves outside wrapped around the necks of city statues, brightening the landscape of Canada's war heroes. In response to deeply frigid temps in Ontario, the scarves include friendly notes that read: "I am not lost! If you are stuck out in the cold, take this scarf to keep warm."
On January 10, a Portland woman dropped in a store parking lot an envelope containing $2,000 in cash and a $38,000 cashier's check. It was the down payment she needed for a house. Lucky for her, Brian DiCarlo, a 23-year-old aspiring teacher, found the envelope.