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Family Goes to Playoff Despite Cancer – With Encouragement From 49ers Themselves
Even though his favorite team, the San Francisco 49ers, lost yesterday, Brian Rozelle, who has terminal cancer, will never forget the cheers echoing from...
Prison Gardens Help Inmates Grow Their Own Food — And Skills
A vibrant movement of prison vegetable gardens is spreading across the country that provides inmates with satisfying work, marketable skills and fresh food to...
Mystery Donor Erects Batkid Billboard To Thank Him For Saving ‘Gotham City’
Remember the boy with leukemia who donned a batman suit last month and was treated to a day of 'pretend crime fighting' that involved...
City Comes Together to Cheer Bat Kid Whose Wish Came True
A conspiracy of kindness in an American city made a wish come true for a five-year-old battling cancer.
San Francisco turned into the comic book...
This OB/GYN Rocks Out Before Undergoing Mastectomy (WATCH)
She may be attuned to the importance of the mind-body connection because moments before surgery to remove her breasts, an Ob/Gyn and mother of two,...
Nonprofit Retrofits Buses as Mobile Showers for the Homeless
For the 3,000 people living homeless on the streets around San Francisco, there are only a total of 16 public shower stalls. To remedy...
Shipping Industry Agrees to Slow Down for Threatened Whales
Persistent prompting by an Auckland scientist has persuaded the shipping industry to rearrange its schedules, for a whale. After a six-year campaign led by...
Entrepreneur Starts his Version of Harvard, Tuition-free
Minerva Schools of KGI doesn't yet have accreditation, a campus or even a full faculty roster, but it is offering something even Harvard can't...
Police Thank Homeless Man Who Came to Officer’s Aid
Officers at a San Francisco police station Friday thanked a homeless man who came to the aid of a colleague who was attacked when...
Amazing Gift: Bride With Terminal Cancer to Have Dream Wedding
35-year-old Jen Bulik received some bad news about lung cancer and wanted to get married before time ran out. As often is the case,...
Google Rigs its Technology so Sick Boy Can Virtually Throw Ceremonial Pitch From Miles Away
13-year-old Nick LeGrande has always dreamed of throwing out the first pitch at an Oakland Athletics baseball game. Wednesday night, with a life-threatening illness...
Woman Reunites With Abandoned Baby She Found in 1951
A 62-year-old woman's desire to find her birth mother led her back to California and into the arms of the resident who found the...
Italian Ingenuity: Europe’s First Zero Waste Town
Capannori, a rural town in the Italian province of Lucca, in Tuscany, boasts a proud history. Six years ago, it became a trendsetter and...
SF Giants Pitcher Returns $500,000 After Noticing Mistake in Contract
Jeremy Affeldt makes $6 million a year pitching for the San Francisco Giants, but he gave a half-million back after a clerical error was...
Friday Is Bike to Work Day: Ten Best Biking Cities in America
12,000 people have signed up to ride their bicycle to work Friday in the Washington, D.C. area in celebration of the 57th annual Bike...
Basketball Stars Gift Hundreds of Local Kids with Tickets to NBA Game
Hundreds of California youngsters got the chance to experience a live NBA basketball game for the first time after the athletes themselves reached out...
United Airlines Holds Plane So Passenger Can Say Goodbye To Dying Mother
Kerry Drake needed to get to Lubbock, Texas, and fast. His mother was dying, so he booked the next flight from San Francisco. “I...
Mark Zuckerberg Helps Extend Human Life by Co-Sponsoring $33M Prize
Tech world celebrities including Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sergey Brin have donated part of their fortunes to help extend human life through...
California Developer Building a Better Haiti
On Jan. 12, Haitians solemnly marked the three-year anniversary of the catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake that decimated their homeland. Today, a few of the...
Super Bowl: Real Life ‘Blind Side’ Players are Survivors in Life and On Field
Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman Michael Ohre, who was made famous by the movie "Blind Side", will be facing a player on the opposing team...