Most people thought he was poor. He clipped coupons and took a bus — not a cab — to a University of Washington alumni luncheon he attended in his later years. Only a tight circle of family and friends knew that MacDonald was nurturing a secret fortune.
Joel Hartman was digging through a dumpster, hoping to find someone's leftover food. Instead, he found a French woman's wallet. Not only did he not keep the contents, he searched four hotels in order to find the woman. This story has many happy endings, beginning with a generous four-diamond hotel that rewarded him in a big way for his good deed.
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 California university student has reformed her old ways of crime and drugs after being abused and neglected as a child. She has a perfect record in school now, volunteers to teach karate, and is active in a church. But all the improvement in her life didn't seem to fill the void of not having loving parents. So Jackie Turner, 26, went on Craigslist asking to rent a family for the holidays -- but she created a new family instead.
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.
A San Francisco reporter spoke with a homeless man in early December who was rummaging for valuables in Oakland. The man, who identified himself as Marcus Malone, told Stanley that he was a landscaper and a music composer. He also said he once played percussion with the original Santana blues band. The news team at […]
25 year-old Abiola Ogungbenle moved from Nigeria to Hanover, Pennsylvania in 2013 to be with his wife, and has been eagerly awaiting his first winter snowfall ever since. When snow began to fall in early December, Abiola was enjoying the sight of his whitened street, an inspiring photo was taken that has gone viral online.
Sam Bashor with Fort Human Peoples delivered holiday care packages to homeless men and women. They gave out new backpacks full of gifts.
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At the age of four, some boys love super heroes. Some love football. Some love both. Mycal Bickings of Levittown, Pennsylvania has only one passion -- trash trucks -- and your heart will melt when you see the relationship he has with the trash collectors who come to his home every Thursday. His father made a video in honor of the boy's Buddies because the town hired a new waste company and last week's was the last garbage pickup at Mycal's house.