Even renters who have not missed a payment have been caught in the foreclosure squeeze nationwide, but now Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has taken a stand saying he would help innocent renters who are playing by the rules but whose landlords are facing foreclosure by protecting them from surprise eviction.
This year's Top 10 CNN Heroes were announced last week. Each will receive $25,000 and be honored at a televised All-Star Tribute airing on Thanksgiving night, culminating in the crowning of Hero of the Year.
While the misfortune of others lured hundreds of bargain hunters to the foreclosure auction, a Dallas woman bought a stranger's foreclosed home... and gave it back to her.
A former Colombian lawmaker kidnapped in 2000 by FARC leftist rebels has escaped with help from one of his captors. The former guerilla will be rewarded by the government and sent with his family to settle in France.
Inspiring video about one man decided to donate his kidney to a stranger, starting a chain of kidney swaps that changed the lives of 8 people, saving four.
A Long Island church has $3 million more dollars in its coffers after a donation from an anonymous parishioner. He dropped the lottery ticket in the collection basket asking only that their identity be kept secret.
Liz McCartney was haunted by images of Hurricane Katrina's destruction so she and her boyfriend decided to move to New Orleans to help families rebuild their lives. She founded St. Bernard Project, which has rennovated homes that were devestated for more than 120 families
Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose 'last lecture' about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday at the age of 47, but his inspiring message lives on.
Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic savant. He is also an extraordinary artist, able to draw an entire city skyline in detail (and perfectly counted windows) after seeing it only once from a plane.
A mother who lost her own son in a tornado helps other children in devastated towns with her mobile daycare unit, named for the 2-year-old The CBS Early Show featured the inspiring voluntary effort in its week-long series, "Extraordinary People." Video
A U.S. soldier couldn't walk past an 11-year-old Iraqi girl who was "in a large decrepit wheelchair, the stumps of her legs crusted with dried blood... He stopped to talk and he came back every day for six months, bringing her toys, gauze for her legs, a new wheelchair... When she asked for legs, that became his mission, too."
Biddeford, Maine experienced a tornado of kindness on Thursday. Residents were lifted up and spirits were tossed into unfamiliar territory as Michael Chase of the Kindness Center churned up a whirlwind of "100 acts of kindness in 100 minutes".