His company usually sells cars in Moline, Illinois but this week they are resuscitating cars -- and they're doing it all over town for free, thanks to one employee who wants to do some good in the community. Brad McKorical, who works at 4th Ave Auto Sales, decided to post on Facebook asking if anyone needs a jump-start for their car.
When a Nevada graphics manager saw a Good News Network post in November about a woman in Canada who runs a shoebox project for women in shelters, something in the article stuck with her. For a month she said, I kept reading it and thought, 'Maybe I could do something similar.' She decided to fill up as many shoeboxes for the homeless as she could -- with a goal of filling 50 boxes for Christmas.
Passengers on a Southwest Airlines jet said goodbye to a dying flight attendant in the most beautiful way–even though she wasn't on the plane with them.
Community appreciation is thriving in Australia thanks to a convoy of volunteer truck drivers delivering necessary resources to drought-afflicted farmers.
Campbell Soup Company announced last week a plan to phase out cans that are lined with BPA (Bisphenol A). The company has already begun using cans with linings made from acrylic or polyester materials and will continue to introduce the new linings across the U.S. and Canadian until the transition is complete in mid-2017. Campbell […]
or the first time in nearly half a century, that duet between a nation's economic engine and the emissions from power plants and factories seems to ended.
On Father's Day, a Miami musician named Jesse Jackson recorded a song, not only for his father, a combat Marine from WWII who had landed in Saipan 70 years ago, to the day, but also for another Marine who today is crossing the United States on horseback to benefit wounded warriors and raise awareness of the high suicide rate among veterans.
Seattle area residents were so relieved that a 22-year-old college student tackled a gunman and thus prevented any more killings at the school Thursday, they began to buy up all the wedding gifts for Jon Meis and his fiance at their online registry. Then, someone set up a fundraising page to pay for a honeymoon and you won't believe how much was raised in two days.
Not only did she raise three children of her own and adopt 14 others, Alena Strickland has fostered more than 200 children over the years, many of them struggling with mental, emotional and physical disabilities. This week, she was awarded $50,000 from "5-hour ENERGY Helps Amazing People."
This is a story about a compassionate cop in Pittsburgh stepping up to adopt two at-risk youth, brothers, Josh and Jessee Lyle, from drug addicted parents.
At the White House Thursday, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Corporal William "Kyle" Carpenter, a retired US Marine whose courageous actions shielding a fellow soldier and beloved friend from a grenade blast in Afghanistan.
In 2008, Yvonne Nair took $25,000 from her retirement account and started Saffron Strand, Inc. to provide training and mental health support aimed at healing the trauma and returning the homeless to the workforce.
A victim of a hate crime who got nine of his teeth knocked out is receiving thousands of dollars in free dental work, along with his faith in mankind restored.
Benjamin Olewine is a regular at the Peachtree restaurant where Melissa Mainier of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania worked. Melissa knew she wanted to be a nurse and was wracking up a lot of debt to put herself through school. One day he told Melissa that he wanted to pay her tuition -- and has done so now for years.
A 65-year-old mom in West Virginia was told she'd have to wait five years to receive an kidney transplant, so her son Jeremy posted an ad on Craigslist, saying "Wanted: Kidney", and found a perfect match.
Mild-mannered pharmacy employee John Robertson is being hailed as a hero after saving a customer's life. When a customer failed to pick up his prescription, Robertson got worried and went to check on him at his home. Turns out, the man was injured and lying on his bathroom floor.