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Unemployed Coal Miners Install Solar Panels Now
A group devoted to creating alternative energy jobs in Central Appalachia is building a first for West Virginia's southern coalfields region this week –...
Entertainers and Fashion Icons Pitch in With Storm Relief Donations, Benefit Concerts, Auctions
Stars from Hollywood to Virginia are pitching in to help New York and New Jersey recover from Hurricane Sandy. A celebrity auction has even...
80-year-old Volunteer Heads into Hurricane, Joins Rescue Teams From Across US
An 80-year-old Utah man arrived on the East Coast Monday to help feed evacuees from Hurricane Sandy. Vern Gillmore, who says his hobby is...
Fish Oil Helped Save Boy in Coma
After a dramatic recovery from serious brain injury experienced by the first patient Dr. Michael Lewis treated with fish oil, the physician urged its...
2 Missing Hikers Found Alive in Montana
Two Virginia veterinarians reported missing while hiking in Glacier National Park were found alive yesterday, after their families raised the alarm Friday when they...
Paying Forward the Gift of Life – Young Girl’s Organ Donation Inspires Football Fans
A fifth-generation Texas lawyer (pictured) wore West Virginia colors to the Univerity of Texas football game recently in honor of the 12 year-old organ...
School Behind Bars Elevates Juveniles Who Need Hope
There is a school at one Virginia county juvenile detention center where troubled youths work toward high school diplomas and credit their teachers with...
GNN Names First Ever “Good News Ambassadors”
Two notable women were named 2012 Good News Ambassadors last week during a sunset award ceremony aboard a river cruise on the Potomac in...
GNN Names First Ever “Good News Ambassadors”
Two notable women were named 2012 Good News Ambassadors last week during a sunset award ceremony aboard a Potomac River cruise in Washington, DC.
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Bringing Civility to Congress on GNN’s 15th Anniversary: Good News Goes to Washington!
"Can't they all just get along?" was the cry going out from a chartered yacht on Sept. 9, 2012, sailing up the Potomac River...
Auto Body Shop Stands up for Bullied Gay Teen, Restores Vandalized Car
A Radford University student has a newly restored car and added security system thanks to Virginia businesses that took a firm stand against bullying....
Simultaneous Acts Of Kindness In Five Cities
A guerrilla kindness event held simultaneously in five cities provided a scavenger hunt of sweetness for volunteers on a mission to put a smile...
Free Online Courses From Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Transform Learning Worldwide
A new online education platform founded by Stanford Computer Science Professors is on a mission to change the world by educating millions of people...
True Independence: How to Remain Grateful During 6 Days Without Electricity or Running Water
After nearly 15 years of looking at the bright side as publisher of the Good News Network, I instinctively knew over the last 5...
Finding Homeless People Living in the Woods Motivates Starbucks Manager
A regional manager at Starbucks in Fredericksburg, Virginia discovered that there were homeless people living in the woods behind the shopping malls, where they...
Military Families to Get Free Passes to National Parks
Members of the U.S. military and their families are being given free annual passes to national parks and iconic national monuments as part of...
Space Shuttle Soars Around DC Monuments in Route to Smithsonian Retirement (Video)
Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital Tuesday before landing for the...
All Graduates of Chicago Urban HS Accepted into 4-Year Colleges for 3rd Year in a Row
For the third consecutive year, 100 percent of the graduating seniors from the Urban Prep Academy, the nation's first all-boys public charter high school,...
Youngest Musher Makes Iditerod History
Dallas Seavey won his first Iditarod Championship as thousands of fans lined the street in Nome, Alaska to greet the youngest person to ever...
Americans Deliver Fishing Boats to Japan on First Anniversary of Tsunami
Family fishermen in Japan took delivery of a very special donation, on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that wiped out their...