Waiter's Flawless Service Rewarded With Full College Scholarship
A full scholarship to a $34,000-a-year private college for an excellent waiter! Always doing your best pays off.
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Hold On For Deer Life: Man Risks His Own to Rescue Frozen Doe (Video)
When he saw a deer trapped in a frozen river, this man crawled across the ice himself rather than call emergency 911–he recorded the rescue from shore.
Instead of Offering Pocket Change, This Man Changed Homeless Vet's Life
A homeless veteran's request for something to eat led to a job, a new home, and thousands of dollars in help for other homeless vets.
Woman Who Hugged Every Returning Soldier Gets Hugs Back in Hospital
Service members return the favor to a woman who's hugged a half-million troops in the last 12 years.
Thanksgiving Hero Nurses Who Work the Holiday, Get Surprise Feast -WATCH
There are Thanksgiving Heroes in every American fire house, police station and hospital–public servants who don't get to stay home enjoying the annual holiday feast with their families because they are protecting our homes and property and taking care of the sick. La Brea Bakery in Los Angeles wanted to recognize these heroes with a […]
Donations May Reach $1Mil for Wounded Hero of Oregon Shooting
After a cousin asked for $10,000 donations to pay for Chris Mintz's medical care, people contributed $785,000 in just four days for the hero.
CNN Announces Amazing Line-Up For Top Ten Heroes of 2015
These 10 outstanding heroes have helped thousands of people and animals around the world with food, shelter, medical care, and hope for a brighter future.
Doctor Practicing "Street Medicine" Named Top Hero of 2015 (WATCH)
Meet the Pittsburgh doctor who routinely treats the homeless, their injuries and illness, and hands out medicine.
(WATCH) 100 People Work Together to Rescue a Great White Shark
About 100 people race against time to rescue a stranded great white shark on a beach, draggin it with a rope back out to sea.
Nurse Stunned to Tears by Parade of Grown Babies Whose Lives She Saved (WATCH)
By the time the parade of former patients filled the room, she was reunited with more than a dozen kids whose lives she saved over her 33 year career.
Boxing Champ Helps 4-yo "Get Back Up" After iPad is Snatched From His Little Hands
When a boxing champ saw video of someone stealing a little boy's iPad, he put himself in the kid's corner–providing some relief and a valuable life lesson.
Lawyer Bought His Own Fire Truck and is Out Fighting Wildfires
An attorney is on voluntary patrol in Washington using a vintage firetruck he named "Clifford" to save people's homes from wildfires.
Heroic Teen: "I Left a Pizza Boy and Returned a Pizza Man"
Anson Lemmer, 19, sprang into action and performed CPR when he saw his last customer of the night on the ground and unconscious.
(WATCH) Qdoba Restaurant Worker's Incredible Act of Kindness
A disabled woman had a special request for five-year employee Ridge Quarles, who works at the Kentucky Qdoba she likes to frequent.
Singer Darius Rucker Surprises Veteran With Mortgage-Free Home
This down-home singer sure knows how to make a hometown hero feel appreciated.
Cop Drives 770 Miles to Get her Home After Town Rallies to Find Missing Dog
When a teen died in a car crash, strangers spent days searching for her dog and a cop drove 12 hours to return it to her family. (VIDEO)
Officer Talks Distraught Woman Off Ledge of Towering Bridge (LOOK)
A California motorcycle cop talked a woman back from the edge of a bridge, 200 feet above San Francisco Bay.
First the Cops Help Him During Heart Attack, Then Shovel his Driveway (VID)
Colorado deputies are being hailed after saving a man who had a heart attack while shoveling a driveway–but it's what they did later that is being cheered.
Officer Honored for Buying Shoplifted Sandwiches for Homeless Man
A New Hampshire Police Officer, Jeffrey Wholley, responded to a shoplifting complaint against a 32-year-old man with four sandwiches in his coat valued at $9.16. The man was homeless and hungry. After consulting with his sergeant, as well as the Laconia Cumberland Farms store which issued the call, Wholley decided to refrain from prosecuting the man. He then purchased the sandwiches for the man so he would have something to eat.
College Professor Gives Half His Income to Charity
Richard Semmler, a mathematics professor at Northern Virginia Community College, works two jobs to earn enough money to give away half of the $100,000 income he earns each year. In addition to his monetary donations, Mr. Semmler volunteers every Monday night to help serve meals at the Central Union Mission, in Washington, DC.
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