Once neighbors in Shoreline, Washington, learned about Frank Henderson's terminal diagnosis and his love for the holiday, they started getting into the holiday spirit, decorating their houses with lights in September to show solidarity.
A doctor in her residency at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto was not too busy to remember her old boss at a fast food restaurant and take the time to send a thank-you note three years later.
They lost their dream home in the San Diego fires this week but found something in the rubble that restored their spirits and their community's hope as well.
An energetic grandmother named Carol Flynn decided to step in and help a thrifty young mother who had been 'counting her pennies' at the local Walmart store in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was a random act of kindness, a private moment between the two women, but a watching stranger caught the scene on video and posted it online to inspire others.
Seafood Watch announced a dramatic turnaround for West Coast fisheries, upgrading 21 species from ‘avoid' to ‘best choice' or ‘good alternative,' including crab, lobster, Pacific cod, grouper and several rockfish species.
A Dallas grandmother who was tired of all the protesting has organized a grassroots effort to provide care packages for children caught at the border. Cole, who is a nurse, created a Facebook post asking for volunteers to help. She thought she might be able to fill 50 boxes, but donations and offers to volunteer exploded.
A mother of four who would likely die within a year from a terrible disorder, tried to raise the $128,000 needed to travel to the US for a pioneering stem-cell treatment that might cure her. The family failed to raise the money until an anonymous man showed up at their door.
The Rychner family of Farmington, Minnesota had little interaction with the elderly man living next door for nearly a decade. All that change last year when the family's 3-year-old son, Emmett, struck up an unlikely friendship with the 89-year-old Erling Kindem over a shared love of tomatoes and lawn tractors.
A teenage cancer survivor who lost his leg to a rare form of the disease had his dreams cut short to one day become a police officer. However, thanks to a thoughtful teacher, Kieran Maxwell was given a taste of what it would be like to ride with his blue uniformed heroes.
A woman paid back $200 she stole from a bar 15 years ago while bartending because "it was wrong and I regret it."
Every year for 30 years, she was taken on a date to Red Lobster, her favorite restaurant, by her husband for their anniversary. This year would be different, according to their daughter, but the staff in Columbia, Missouri, made sure to make the night special.
Frontier Airline Passengers flying from Washington, D.C. to Denver Monday arrived after midnight, five hours late, but most did not complain. While they were waiting on a tarmac in Wyoming for stormy weather to clear in Denver, the Frontier Airlines captain ordered pizzas delivered to the plane.