High school students in Riverside, California donned bright yellow shirts and waved mood-boosting signs to interrupt the daily routines of drivers and passersby on Tuesday. Honking horns, hundreds of smiles, and supportive waves were their reward as the teens learned the power of positive encouragement.
There's some good news coming out of the rare snowstorm that hit the southern United States where localities have been paralyzed because they own no snow removal capability. Local news teams in Atlanta are reporting on several men who have taken hot cocoa and sandwiches on foot to stranded motorists on the interstates.
For James "Bim" Costello, April 15th was one of the worst days of his life. At the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bomb exploded, he suffered not only physical wounds but emotional trauma, after learning about his friends and their injuries. Recovering in Spaulding Hospital, and wondering what good could come from the tragedy, he met a nurse named Krista.
While everyone knows the best part of a Secret Santa gift exchange is finding out the identity of the gift giver, a Reddit user participating in this year's online Secret Santa gift giving got the surprise of her life during the big reveal.
A sign that read "Free Tea" convinced a pair of college students to climb inside the small school bus painted white. Thirty-year-old Colorado College graduate Guisepi Spadafora has been serving free tea out of his bus (named Edna Lu) for five and a half years. He says the project was an accident, but his desire for "genuine interaction" among people caused him to start serving tea.
Remember the boy with leukemia who donned a batman suit last month and was treated to a day of 'pretend crime fighting' that involved thousands of participants in San Francisco? (See the original story here.) Now someone has paid for a billboard featuring a picture of the 5-year-old Miles Scott dressed as 'Batkid', to thank him for saving the city.
After a Greensboro woman had her Christmas decorations stolen, strangers replaced them, giving her home more Christmas cheer than ever.
Never underestimate the power of a makeover. This homeless veteran held a negative self-image of himself and suffered from alcoholism. Watch the transformation after he gets a haircut, shave and new clothes from the Degage Ministries. He suddenly can see some potential in his life -- and now he is making the changes needed to get back on track.
Noah Fisher was devastated when an optician told him he'd have to wear glasses, fearing that he would be laughed at. But his mom, Lindsey, set up a Facebook group called Glasses for Noah, and encouraged friends and family to send pictures of themselves wearing glasses. It grew beyond Lindsey's circle and thousands have posted pics.
A teenager, who endured years of bullying, brought his classmates to tears at a school assembly that was later broadcast by a documentary in Britain. Educating Yorkshire placed cameras around the school and revealed a powerful breakthrough moment with a student who stammered, and his subsequent speech in front of the whole school.
When the students in a U.S. history classes learned that local war hero Jerral Hancock had once got stuck in his modest mobile home for half a year when his handicapped-accessible van broke down, and that the hallways of his tiny house were so narrow he couldn't get his wheelchair through most of them, they decided to build him a home. And, that's just what they did.
Another randomly positive billboard has popped up in Portland this week. The yellow sign towering above Sandy Blvd., at 35th street, declares, You are so freaking awesome.
A Chinese thief painstakingly wrote out 11 pages of telephone numbers from a stolen iPhone and sent them to the owner, state media says. The phone directory had nearly 1000 contact numbers and no backup copy.
48-year-old Thomas Graham is building a house in Texas pretty much by himself. And although that job alone isn't remarkable, just imagine trying to put up a three-bedroom, two-bath ranch without any blueprints -- and doing it in total darkness. Thomas says he started dreaming of this shortly after the day he went blind at the age of 18
All across Canada, police departments have been ticketing kids. But they're not handing out the tickets that incur fines or suspend drivers licenses. Positive Ticket citations are giving teens and children free coupons for pizza and ice cream just for obeying the law and putting safety first.
More than 2,600 people from around the world may have helped prolong the life of a dying Nebraska father by sending photos, notes and postcards all colored with sky-blue pink. His son, a digital brand manager with Red Bull, started an online campaign for people to post sunsets and skies using Twitter or Instagram to help fill his father's room with his favorite scenes.
Two video pranksters, Andrew Hales and Stuart Edge, teamed up to bring happiness to three deserving coffee shop servers in Orem, Utah. After asking them to name the biggest tip they ever got, they trumped it by leaving $200, and then hid outside in the bushes to record their surprised reactions through the window
For the second time in Alberta this week, a man has walked into Tim Hortons and slapped down cash for the equivalent of 500 large coffees for other customers. The mystery donor gave the store almost $900 to hand out free coffees to those behind him in line.
Eight members of the Philadelphia Orchestra who were stuck on a tarmac in Beijing for three hours gave fellow passengers an experience of a lifetime when they took out their violins and cello and played an impromptu concert.
When a new neighbor moved in and began writing messages on a chalkboard in his front window, the funny and inspiring messages about happiness, or finding a wife, made Ayden Byle the toast of his Toronto neighborhood.
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