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Carnegie Hero Award is New Start for Felon who Saved 91-Year-old Woman
In saving a life, Pierre Johnson may also have transformed his own.
Locked up in a Minnesota prison over the past year for selling cocaine,...
Carnegie Hero Fund Cites 21 for Extraordinary Heroism
The Carnegie Hero Awards were announced today. The bronze medallion and $4,000 were awarded to 20 individuals who risked their lives to an extraordinary...
Disabled Man Breaks up Robbery with Knife, Awarded Carnegie Hero Award
The Carnegie Hero award is given to persons who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives...
4 Heroes Given Carnegie Medal for Extraordinary Bravery Saving Lives
Risking your life to save someone else sounds heroic. We'd all like to think we'd do the same thing, but actually jumping into action...
21 Extraordinary Acts of Heroism: Carnegie Medals Announced
21 people were named Wednesday by the Carnegie Hero Fund to receive the Carnegie medal, given to those who risk their lives to an...
Carnegie Medals Awarded to 22 for Extraordinary Acts of Heroism
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission this week named 22 individuals as recipients of the Carnegie Medal, awarded throughout the U.S. and Canada to those...
Pakistani Man is True Hero in Dramatic Cable Car Rescue After Youths Were Stranded 15 Hours–WATCH
A rather unassuming young man with kind brown eyes is being hailed as a hero for his volunteer efforts to rescue 7 teenagers trapped...
All His Training Pays Off: Slackliner Wins Carnegie Medal for Ski Lift Rescue Over Cables
Up on the Colorado ski slopes in 2017, a man was suspended from a chairlift by the strap of his backpack coiled around his...
Hero Award Recipient: ‘I Can’t Let This Baby Die’
Tom Porter says he doesn't think he's a hero, but he'll soon have a bronze medal that says he is.
The Texas resident was awarded...
19 Awarded Carnegie Medals for Bravery
A Wisconsin man who lunged in front of a train to save a 3-year-old from certain death and a New York man who twice...
Good News in History, April 15
136 years ago today, Corrie ten Boom was born in Haarlem. A Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, ten Boom...
Good News in History, November 10
100 years ago today, one of the most famous dogs in the world, Hachikō the Akita, was born in Ōdate. He is beloved, revered,...
Farmers Were Organized to Collect Eggs of Endangered Wildfowl, Which is Saving a Species in Australia
There are 25,000 Malleefowl left in Australia, but only 2,800 in the densely-populated state of New South Wales. But an unlikely group of heroes...
Good News in History, June 10
64 years ago today, one of the greatest football managers of modern times, Carlo Ancelotti, was born. With his calm demeanor, raised eyebrow, and...
Good News in History, May 11
1,693 years ago today, Constantinople is dedicated as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire by Emperor Constantine the Great. It would go on...
Good News in History, May 5
50 years ago today, ridden by Ron Turcotte, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby in 1 minute 59 seconds and 40 milliseconds, the record which...
Paleontologists Uncover Rarer-than-Rare Fossil of Oviraptor on Nest of Eggs With 24 Embryos Inside
A jaw-dropping fossil has been found of an oviraptor crouching upon two dozen eggs containing fossilized embryos inside—with 7 containing “babies” mere hours from...
Watch Stars Perform in David Bowie Tribute Concerts This Weekend for Charity
It's been three months since David Bowie the British rock visionary left this world of mortals to venture on among the stars – but...
President Obama Honors 15 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
Today, President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian honor, to fifteen diverse recipients. The Medal of Freedom is...