Thanks, in part, to a million dollar donation from BP, fishermen and their families are getting the help they need in Gulf coast areas where shrimp boats are docked along waters polluted with oil. Food is being distributed for the people, while animals needing to be cleaned are being rescued.
Kalamazoo Central High School beat out more than 1,000 applicants to win the "Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge" and the honor of having President Obama deliver the school's graduation speech, which took place on Monday night.
Artist Richard Ankrom took it upon himself to install a new highway number and arrow on a Los Angeles freeway sign in 2001 to help ease congestion and improve traffic flow. Now, some eight years later, the California traffic administrators have replaced the altered sign with another that incorporates the helpful directives for drivers.
Despite the global economic downturn, the world is still on track to meet a key U.N. goal of halving the number of people living on less than $1 a day by 2015, according a UN report. Other Millenium Goals are not similarly on track, so UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon created a star-powered committee that will try to spark progress against all eight welfare problems named in the goals.
Muhammad Yunus gets people out of poverty with the help of small loan-interest loans. The Nobel Laureate announced that his banking organization, the Grameen Bank is set to expand in America and elsewhere.
After surviving more than 5 days in the rubble, two victims were pulled alive from the wreckage of a collapsed Haiti supermarket late on Sunday to applause from amazed onlookers.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation made 13-year-old Erik Martin's superhero dream a reality with a giant city-wide role playing scenario that incorporated all of Seattle. With the help of a major league soccer team, a DeLorean, and Spider-Man, Electron Boy saved the day.
At the Tennessee elephant sanctuary, where animals usually pair up with each other, one elephant instead has formed a lasting bond with Bella the dog. They are inseparable.
In what is being described as a major victory in the global fight against polio, the United Nations health agency announced yesterday that the disease has been eradicated in strife-torn Somalia thanks to the efforts of some 10,000 volunteers and health workers across the Horn of Africa nation.
The top four healthiest cities for 2007 according to the US Centers for Disease Control are: Lincoln, Nebraska, Fargo, North Dakota, Boulder, Colorado, and Burlington, Vermont.
This alarm clock lets you silence the buzzer and wake up to fresh smells of coffee, chocolate, and four other pleasant scents.
Here's the scoop on how to keep sweet in your life without keeping the fattening processed sugar and chemicals.
Watch this short film about how contagious laughter can be, even on a subway train crowded with sullen strangers.
The President hosted a remarkable group of wounded veterans a few weeks ago on the White House basketbal court. These "Wounded Warriors" from Walter Reed Army Medical Center showed President Obama a thing or two about wheelchair basketball.
For the first time in its 40 year history of charitable giving, Tom's of Maine, the natural toothpaste company, opened up its funding process to the public, letting them vote on who will get $100,000 in grants.
In June, a man tried to steal money from a deli, but the shopkeeper provided the robber with forty dollars and a loaf of bread and made him promise never to steal again. Now, the would-be robber in Long Island has paid back the store owner.
This holiday season not every child will get a chance to verbally tell Santa what they want for Christmas. That's why he made a special trip to visit some hearing impaired children in Columbus, Georgia.
Florida resident James Bain was exonerated and released from prison Thursday, after spending 35 years behind bars for a wrongful conviction. Bain had spent more time in prison than any of the 246 inmates previously exonerated by DNA evidence nationwide, yet despite the serious injustice of this situation, Bain said, "No, I am not angry."
Many people say they had found unexpected and uplifting turns during the struggling economy's darkest moments and rediscovered what they previously dismissed or took for granted: Family, friends and faith. Others say the tough times have helped them seize opportunities they might have ignored before.
Even in these tough times, it is becoming "downright common" for Starbucks customers at this drive-thru window to pay the bill for the car behind them. One cashier has even seen 15 cars of kindness in a row... KUSA reports in this video from Loveland, Colorado
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