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Girl Becomes Superhero For a Day
Most days, six-year-old Aubrey Matthews spends her energy fighting a brain tumor growing behind her eyes. But the first-grader managed to foil crimes...
Dramatic Downward Trend in Rapes
The Justice Department’s latest annual National Crime Victimization Survey of the United States estimates that rapes and attempted rapes fell more than 80 percent...
Convict Mends Life Stitching Artwork While in Prison
The most inspirational stories to me are convicts who transform themselves with some activity or study while in prison. GNN has featured inmates whose...
Good News Network Relaunched (April 25, 2006)
Is the Media Unbalanced? One Network Asserts Public Health is Served by its Positive News Tilt, Readers Attest to Medicinal Effects
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Drug Treatment Instead of Prison Yields Encouraging Results in CA
A new study from UCLA reports California has saved about $800 million over the last five years by sentencing non-violent drug offenders to community-based...
The Media Today
No Place for Negative News? Featuring only positive news on this website is not meant to suggest that there is no need to learn...
G is for Genus Apis
EDITOR'S BLOG The full name of the honeybee that arrived at my backdoor in a huge swarming mass is Apis mellifera ligustica. We...
Rival Gangs in Jamaica Find Common Ground: A New Woman Prime Minister
"Portia Simpson-Miller, 51, who will be sworn in next week as the first woman Prime Minister of Jamaica, has prompted a rare dose of...
Why Good News? Counting the Benefits
Good news is often considered too soft and unimportant to be valuable in one’s real life. The truth is, good news can create concrete,...
Forgiving the Unforgivable
Why would Peter and Linda Biehl, a wealthy, conservative Newport Beach couple, leave their privileged community for South Africa to work arm in arm...
Fencing Program Enriches Inner City Kids
Life was frustrating amid the poverty and violence of the housing projects in Newark, New Jersey. So Peter Westbrook’s mother encouraged him to channel...
“Touched by an Angel” in Hip Hop
In a December "Touched by an Angel, the managing editor of a daily newspaper was in the habit of publishing a steady diet of...
Toastmasters Reforms Inmates While They Are in Prison
A Letter From A Louisiana Judge
According to criminal justice sources, 95 percent of crime is committed by criminals who have already been to prison....
The United Arab Emirates Focus on 2000
Two thousand prisoners and their families will receive assistance, 2,000 more orphans around the world will be helped, 2,000 poor people will receive clothes,...
Firefighters Welcome Gang Members
In a Los Angeles neighborhood full of gang activity, where bullets sometimes fly, Fire Station No. 68 serves the community of central Los Angeles,...
A Society Without Criminals
Anthropologists once examined a society that utilized a special technique for the treatment of those members who chose to break rules or violate customs,...