A police officer in south Florida was so moved by the plight of a struggling single mother who was caught shoplifting that she helped her out. Miami-Dade Police Officer Vicki Thomas purchased $100 in groceries for Jessica Robles, who admitted she made a decision to shoplift groceries out of desperation.
Joni Eareckson from Agoura Hill, California, has been wheelchair-bound since the age of 17, after severing her spinal cord in a diving accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down. She met able-bodied Ken Tada in her early 30s. She jokes that she knew Ken was the one when he willingly changed her urine bag on the first date. She loved his sense of humor about her disability.
A heartbreaking story ran in the Tampa Bay Times on October 8 about a brave boy, 15, who stood up in front of a church during Sunday services to ask someone to love him. The orphan had been raised in foster care and lived in a group home for boys. He made the drastic and courageous step because he wanted a loving family so bad. After the story ran, thousands filed requests to ask him to join theirs.
When your two year-old is in the hospital battling childhood cancer, you do whatever crazy thing will help keep their spirits up. Lauren, the particularly creative mother of little Hazel Hammersley, used medical tape on the window to form giant letters: SEND PIZZA RM 4112.
Music connects people in the most incredible ways, but for this record collector, it was a piece of paper that came with an LP that touched his heart.
A high school physics teach became well known in Louisville, Ky., for his exploding antics in the classroom. But Jeffrey Wright's most influential lecture is delivered annually teaching the life-lessons learned via Mr. Wright's son, who has a developmental disorder.
As 91-year-old John Jack Potter faced eviction from the house he built and lived in for 56 years, his granddaughter decided to act. She set up a donation campaign on the website, Go Fund Me, and her story about the WWII combat vet losing his home attracted more than 5000 people who gave $138,000.
Proof that human kindness and generosity has not gone out of style, a wedding planner worked for weeks with volunteers and vendors in April to create the Wedding of a Lifetime for cancer patient, Jennifer Batugo and her fiance Brian Gargano. They needed a last minute date change for their planned August wedding because the bride may not live that long.
The video of an elderly woman finding her dog beneath the rubble of her home in Moore, Oklahoma after it had been leveled by a tornado so moved people that they began emailing the CBS news team with offers of support. Erin DeRuggiero, of Minneapolis, Minn., went a step further when she learned that Barbara Garcia's home had not been insured. She set up a fundraising page on GoFundMe with a simple plea, Let's show her what love and community is all about.
A 62-year-old woman's desire to find her birth mother led her back to California and into the arms of the resident who found the abandoned infant, in the front seat of her car. I lifted the lid, and these two little eyes were staring at me. Now, she is looking into those eyes six decades later and is grateful for a new friendship.
The lives of two men, one a young marathon runner who had crossed the finish line two minutes before the bomb exploded, and an older man he rushed to help, have formed a bond neither man will soon forget.
Kimberly Mitchell's life story has always been missing a few important pages -- like how she ended up in an orphanage in 1970's Vietnam with war raging. She finally knows the story and got to thank the soldier who rescued and named her in 1972.
Dying of cancer, Katelyn Norman, 14, created a bucket list. She wanted to dance at her prom and learn to drive, so her Tennessee high school organized ‘Light the Night for Kate,' preparing an elegant evening with all her favorite things and lining the road with candles for her to drive home.
Billy Ray Harris, the Missouri homeless man who returned the engagement ring dropped in his donation cup by mistake, now has a part-time job, new friends, and tens of thousands of dollars that were donated by admirers. But, he says the best part is reconnecting with his beloved sisters, which happened during the TODAY show when they surprised him on air.
Imagine driving along and seeing someone standing in the road frantically waving their arms. Would you stop? It's a good thing Ryan Cornelissen did stop. He was the calm presence needed in a crisis to revive a newborn who was not breathing after a man's wife had given birth in the car.
Katie Sattler admits when she first noticed the diamond from her engagement ring was missing, she panicked. The diamond is three carats with an estimated value of about $30,000. She said the sentimental value is priceless. Thankfully, the PetSmart store manager is a fellow of honor and integrity.
In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, many Connecticut residents continue to struggle to recover their livelihoods and to provide nutritious food, safe shelter, transportation, clothing, and medical supplies for their families. A philanthropic family from Northwest Connecticut, who wishes to remain anonymous, has stepped in to help.
The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station. What neither of us knew, or could have predicted, was that Danny had not just saved an abandoned infant; he had found our son.
This student just couldn't leave his paralyzed father behind when he went off to college, so he moved his dad into his dorm and became his caregiver.
When Barack Obama was still a Senator running for president, a black elevator operator, Earl Smith, shared a moment with him at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Austin. His time with the future President was short, but Smith gave Obama something that he would carry with him for the rest of the campaign. The story of the elderly worker tells a lot about where this country has been and how far it has come.
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