A gifted musician who was shot in the head during the "Dark Knight" massacre last week will likely not sustain any major brain damage thanks to a birth defect that her pastor called a miracle.
Three of the hospitals taking care of people wounded in the Colorado theater shooting said Wednesday they will limit or completely wipe out medical bills for the 22 victims. Wednesday they will limit or completely wipe out medical bills for the 22 victims. Some of the wounded, many of them young, are uninsured and face mounting hospital bills.
The previously untold story of how an unprecedented network of high-achieving women from the world's largest companies, innovative startups, philanthropic organizations, government, and the arts combined forces to change the lives of girls and women everywhere.
Massachusetts Transit workers took time from their busy rush hour jobs to make sure a little girl's stuffed animal was rescued from a crushing blow by commuter trains Wednesday. Michelle Carey-Brown's 3-year-old daughter Riley saw her beloved stuffed animal bunny, Nummy, fall into the pit between the platform and the train. A MBTA worker who […]
For their their senior project, six Marquette University engineering students chose to design and manufacture a device that would help a young girl to feed herself. Without the device, Kailyn Pieper has to bring her mouth right down to the plate, when eating in the school cafeteria with her friends.
When Derek Amato crashed headfirst into the hard bottom of a pool, he was scared about what he might have done to his brain. But amazingly, the accident brought Amato an unexpected gift: it turned him into a musical savant. Amato now plays the piano like a virtuoso, making up melodies from the patterns of black and white blocks that stream across his brain in endless succession.
The social media community of Reddit has once again responded with incredible generosity to a personal story of tragedy posted on their website. Jake Villanueva, 23, was given six months to live after a surprise diagnosis of terminal kidney cancer and he posted his story on the website. Not to ask for anything, but just to talk. What happened next is the stuff of Reddit legend.
Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill, and J.K. Rowling have all lit fires in the bellies of graduates with their words. Whether or not you've walked across that stage, commencement speeches can be helpful to anyone, no matter their age. Here are a dozen inspiring graduation quotes.
The Automotivation program began eight years ago after the founder of San Antonio-based Operation Comfort talked with a soldier in Brooke Army Medical Center's burn ward. She said to the badly burned Aaron, What on earth can I do to make you use what hands you've got? He replied, If you put an engine block out there on that patio area I'd be working on it 24/7.
A mom racked up some good karma by recycling her son's old computer -- good karma that came in handy after she found out her son had stashed $300 inside the old PC. When they learned of the mishap, the facility that collects the used hardware from the New York landfill really wanted to solve the problem. We were very happy with Max's mom that she went the distance to recycle, so we wanted to go the distance to try to help out.
They thought cell phone service would be impossible, stranded on the remote Idaho mountain after their plane crashed. But then the Brown family heard a voice echoing into the night: "You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen…"
A former bus driver, who in her senior years works as a bus monitor, sat patiently through ten minutes of relentless and brutal bullying by middle school kids on her route, as a video camera rolled. The video went viral and an online social media community so sympathized with her that they raised money to send her on a vacation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.