A pit bull named Smoke is currently on a more than 2,500-mile journey home to California after disappearing three years ago and being found in Florida. It has taken a nationwide, metaphorical village and a Seattle-based pet detective to bring Smoke closer and closer to his family.
A pair of fans on their way to see the Dave Matthews Band in concert in Hershey, Pennsylvania were late -- but right on time. Instead of rushing by a stranded cyclist whose tire had blown, they stopped to help. Guess who the rider turned out to be? Dave Matthews himself, taking a pre-concert ride in the country without a cell phone, needed a ride back to the show.
Paul Williams was rushing to catch a bus home after ending work at a California Wal-Mart when he made a startling discovery in the parking lot: a wallet containing $4,000 in cash and a $1,000 check - with no ID. Meanwhile, wallet owner Lynn Andries had discovered what she'd lost while shopping in a rush, and had no faith that it would ever be returned.
Dennis Komsa was 12 years old in 1963 when, while vacationing with family along the Jersey Shore, he wrote a note, put it in a glass jar and tossed it into the Atlantic Ocean. It wasn't until after Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast last October, that the Ball mason jar was found when Norman Stanton combed through storm debris in Seaside Heights, N.J.
A dreamed-up doughnut that melds together chocolate, caramel and pecans has earned its inventor $10,000. Andrew Shepherd was crowned the winner on Monday after beating out 63,000 entries in a Tim Hortons contest..
His spirit has been rejuvenated," said Sarah Darling, who accidentally dropped her engagement ring in Billy Ray Harris' donation cup in February. Harris returned the ring, and the story inspired donors around the world. Since the fateful day that Darling's ring landed in his cup, Harris' life has take a 180 degree turn.
A French climber scaling a glacier off Mont Blanc stumbled across a treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires that had been buried for decades following a plane crash. When the honest young hiker realized the jewels -- estimated to be worth a quarter million dollars -- belonged to someone who died on the glacier, he turned in the haul to local police
Eight-year-old Nebraska football fan Jack Hoffman learned this week that his pediatric brain cancer is in remission. The boy captured hearts around the world after he ran a 69-yard touchdown during a spring college game that went viral.
The 2013 Atlantic storm season has proved one of the quietest in decades with the lowest number of hurricanes since 1982 and none of them considered 'major', according to insurance broker Willis Re.
Taryn Thompson was astonished and grateful when strangers helped find her lost family heirloom. It was a special ring that her grandmother Louise Thompson left her after she passed away in 2007. As reported by WLEX 18 News, the western Kentucky student was attending a wedding in Lexington when she stopped into the Gratz Park Inn to freshen up. That's when she must have lost the ring… but, no one at the hotel could find it.
Every once and a while someone does something that restores your faith in humanity. That is how Dayton-area mom, Andy Robinson of Bellbrook, said she felt when two Fairborn students found the wallet her son lost at a high school football game and didn't rest until they returned
A police sergeant said it was pure dumb luck how a 20 year old, Nick Simmons, was reunited with his family in upstate New York after a news photographer shot his photo huddled with homeless men on a grate in Washington, DC.
I bet Jaxxyn Wood's parents are glad Santa brought their 12-year-old son a new video game for Christmas. He was enthralled in one of the game's important mission at 3:30 in the morning when he smelled foul smoke coming from the kitchen. If he hadn't been awake, the nine people sleeping upstairs might have been trapped by a raging fire.
At 71, Margaret Ann Wolf Harris heard her father's voice for the first time in her adult life. Her dad, Sgt. Cody Wolf, died in World War II when his plane was shot down over Germany on Jan. 11, 1944. But a couple of weeks before his death, he contributed to a Christmas broadcast, produced by war correspondents of the Maryland newspaper The Baltimore Sun. His baby daughter got to hear it recently.
In October 2013, Louis Munoz donated one of his kidneys to William Lynch. The organ match would not have occurred without a bit of serendipity and a big love of football: Munoz and Lynch hadn't seen each other in years – then they found themselves randomly seated next to each other with season tickets for San Diego Chargers games.
An Illinois couple wrote a letter saying Hooray for ice storms after what they found while trying to protect their frozen pipes. Tara Catogge and her husband Ian found someone's diamond and sapphire wedding ring while trying to clear the pipes in their kitchen sink last week.
Unemployed, in debt and facing another year living on the streets in Hungary, László Andraschek spent his last remaining coins on a lottery ticket. Now the formerly homeless man is one of Hungary's biggest lottery winners, with a prize of about $2.8 million, and the 55-year-old plans to use his winnings to establish a foundation for addicts.
Raised 5,000 miles apart and speaking different languages, a chance sighting on YouTube by a friend helped them to discover a lost twin they didn't know existed.
Jona Rechnitz, who won $50,000 on the 2012 Superbowl just did it again ... by placing the same exact bet. Both times the NYC real estate mogul donated the winnings to charity -- $75,000 in total.
Detroit-based Quicken Loans, America's fourth largest mortgage lender, has joined forces with Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway to pay a billion dollars to anyone who completes a perfect bracket, predicting the winner of every game in the March 2014 men's college basketball championship tournament. Any U.S. citizen over 21 years of age who correctly enters the contest and predicts the winner in all 63 tournament games will win or share the total $1 billion prize.
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