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Facebook Groups Reunite Jersey Shore Families with Photos, Items Lost in Storm

At least four Facebook pages were created to reunite people with photographs, kayaks, wedding invitations and other cherished mementos they thought were lost during Superstorm Sandy. The sites have reunited a woman with her wedding dress, an urn containing cremated ashes with a loved one, a mother with a baby album and the congregation of St. Elisabeth's Chapel-by-the Sea in Ortley Beach, which was destroyed by the storm, with a plaque bearing names.

New Foster Families Adopt Elderly U.S. Veterans, Call it a Privilege

A program run by the Veterans Administration has successfully placed elderly U.S. vets with families who receive stipends for providing room and board. 1500 veterans are now living with families who want to thank the men for their service and keep them in loving homes instead of hospitals or nursing homes.

By Jeanne Goddard

24 November 23 Views

Prisoners From Rikers Island Deliver Thanksgiving Meals, Pitch In to Help Storm Victims

A group of prisoners at New York City's Rikers Island jail were let out for a day so they could deliver 700 Thanksgiving meals to the needy. The men cooked up the hundreds of turkey dinners in a jail kitchen for delivery to two churches, according to an AP report. That's not the only example this month of Riker's prison helping New Yorkers in need. A New York Times story today tells how, after Hurricane Sandy tore through nearby neighborhoods, the island inmates did 6,600 pounds of laundry for people in emergency shelters.

By Jeanne Goddard

22 November 41 Views

Heartwarming 'Cash Mob' Lifts Coffee Kiosk Hit Twice by Robbers

Customers in Central Oregon turned out in droves to support a local business down on its luck. Always serving the community through donations to high school raffles and day care centers, it was time for the locals to show support for the Black Rock Coffee Bar on Pacific Highway in Tigard, which had been robbed twice in two weeks.

By Jeanne Goddard

20 November 27 Views

Occupy Wall Street Folks Are Buying and Abolishing Millions of Dollars of Debt for the 99 Percent

The Occupy Wall Street movement, forever angry about government bail-outs for big banks, finally figured out a way to issue their own bail-outs -- this time, for the little guy. A group called Strike Debt launched a campaign last night, called Rolling Jubilee, that has already raised more than a quarter million dollars to buy up the debt owed by faceless Americans and cancel it, while just paying pennies on the dollar for the privilege. They call it, a bailout by the people, for the people.

By Jeanne Goddard

16 November 48 Views

NYC Reserving 5,000 Coveted Seats to Macy's Parade for Sandy Storm Victims

This year, front row seats to see the marching bands and massive balloons of the iconic Macy's Day Thanksgiving Day parade will be occupied not by diplomats or corporate titans and their families, but by thousands of New Yorkers hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy.

By Jeanne Goddard

16 November 33 Views

Dying Wife Gives Husband a Final Gift, 29 Cobra Sports Cars Show Up to Give Him a Ride

They both have terminal cancer but Kathleen Rinard has only days to live and wanted to give her husband one final gift. He always wanted to ride in a Cobra convertible sports car, so Kathleen called an auto club for help. Instead of a single convertible rolling up to their Arizona hospice, 29 Cobras arrived revving their engines in a neat row outside.

By Jeanne Goddard

08 November 28 Views

Six Photos That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity - and Cops

This photo taken by a tourist in Times Square, shows a 25 year-old police officer stooping on his knee against the cold sidewalk to talk to a homeless man with bare feet. He asked his shoe size, went into the Skechers store and bought all-weather boots. Here are 6 photos posted in November on social media that serve to inspire and will restore your faith in humanity.

By Jeanne Goddard

30 November 33 Views

Eric Lomax, War Hero Who Forgave Captors, Dies at 93, Film in the Works

It's an unusual man who can forgive his wartime torturer - or whose quest to do so can touch so many people around the world. Eric Lomax, a former British prisoner of war whose moving tale of wartime torture and forgiveness is being turned into a film, died Monday in England at 93.

By Jeanne Goddard

09 October 31 Views

Santa and Mrs. Claus Reside in Utah, Toymakers Deliver 1 Million Handmade Gifts Worldwide

17 years ago, a retired couple in Utah started making handmade wooden toys for poor and sick children. The little cars and trucks were received so enthusiastically in the local hospital, a workshop was set up which has since delivered more than 1.1 million toys to kids around the world. News spread around Cedar City telling of a Happy Factory where retired couples could come to laugh and give their time in a collective effort to make kids happy around the globe.

By Jeanne Goddard

03 October 39 Views

Facebook Post Rescues MS Patient From a Year of Lack

Friends answered the call on a sister's Facebook page to re-fill the heart of a woman with severe Multiple Sclerosis. They supplied things that most people would take for granted. What started as a dismal situation turned into a heart-warming campaign that spread across the social network like a friendly virus.

By Jeanne Goddard

10 October 29 Views

Strangers Pour It Forward

Tim Farber was handed a sandwich at a drive-through window and told that lunch was free because the motorist who arrived before him paid his bill. Tim Farber was handed a sandwich at a drive-through window and told that lunch was free because the motorist who arrived before him paid his bill. It was part of an infectious trend that's been bringing smiles to Winnipeg coffee store patrons. Farber, in turn, offered to pay for the order of a total stranger in the car behind him.

By Jeanne Goddard

18 October 38 Views

Babies Born to be Good, Say Researchers

An expanding body of research suggests people's moral compasses are active far earlier than previously thought. Young children and even babies demonstrate attributes such as generosity, empathy and a sense of justice, indicating that far from being born as clean slates, humans seem to have innate altruistic tendencies and are able to make moral choices at a remarkably young age.

By Jeanne Goddard

29 October 43 Views

DC Commuters Have Happy Mondays Thanks to Man Waving Uplifting Signs

Bleary-eyed drivers entering Washington, DC on Monday mornings, are jolted into happiness by people waving with signs with optimistic slogans from the side of the road. Held by 29-year-old Massoud Adibpour and 4 other volunteers, the signs were scrawled with uplifting messages: "Honk if you love someone!"; "Be happy"; "Don't be so hard on yourself"; and, "Smile!"

By Teresa Helton

03 September 26 Views

Church Gives Extreme Home Makeover 'Beyond Belief' for Family Hit by Tragedy

Mike and Angie Gagnon, their disabled daughter and two young grandkids were thrilled with the renovations and editions on their home provided by 150 businesses in an Extreme Makeover project organized by Cornerstone Seventh Day Adventist Church. Although it was one of the church's biggest projects yet - working at least 18 hour days for 10 days straight - "it's totally worth it," said Pastor Steven Mirkovich.

By Terri Lane Robertson

18 September 30 Views

Cop Logs Zero Complaints in 20 Years

By the very nature of their business, every Los Angeles traffic cop can expect to get at least a few complaints every year -- especially from people who are just angry about getting caught speeding. Which is why the police chief was stunned when he discovered that during the last 20 years -- through the last 25,000 traffic stops -- Sheriff's Deputy Elton Simmons has not had one complaint filed against him. Not one. CBS tagged along on his rounds to figure out how he does it.

By Jeanne Goddard

23 September 26 Views

Nurses Help Hospitalized Man Participate in Son's West Coast Wedding

The father of the groom was too sick to travel to the planned wedding of his son in California, so the nursing staff at the hospital decided to throw a wedding party in his room and arrange for a Skype web link to view the entire ceremony. From the guest book, to the cake and the sparkling apple cider, the nurses didn't miss any details.

By Jeanne Goddard

25 August 38 Views

Stradivarius Violin Found On Train, Turned In By Good Samaritan

A Stradivarius violin – possibly worth several million pounds – has been handed in to a lost-and-found office in Switzerland office after a hapless musician left it on a train. The owner had lent the precious instrument to a musician friend who took it on a train and left it.

By Jeanne Goddard

03 August 35 Views

Good Samaritan Buys Fare and Tickets for Disabled Boy to See Springsteen

Local public transportation workers are off the job in Moncton this summer, so an anonymous angel came forward and offered Jamie Vautour $200 so he could afford wheelchair-accessible transportation to attend his Nickelback concert earlier this year, plus some extra spending money. Now, the same donor has come forward anonymously again -- this time for Springsteen show.

By Jeanne Goddard

27 August 26 Views

Homeless Man Turns Over Valuables to Find Rightful Owner (Video)

A man who lives under a San Diego bridge always lives by the Ten Commandments, too. James Pitcl, who collects recyclables and trades them in for cash, has proven that he always does the right thing, no matter how tempting the alternative.

By Jeanne Goddard

27 August 34 Views