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Tsunami Relief Heroes Honored in Japan at Baseball’s Opening Game
Although baseball's Ichiro Suzuki was the star player of the opening day game in Tokyo, this week, all eyes were on the tsunami heroes...
U.S. Health Care: The Good News – A New PBS Documentary
You don't often find the words "health care" and "good news" in the same sentence, but in a new Public Television documentary, we learn...
Restaurant Donates $10,000 in Dollar Bills Tacked to its Walls to Charity
Customers at a landmark burger joint called Fat Smitty's on Washington's Olympic Peninsula have wondered for years how much money was tacked to the...
Hero Air Controller Guides Couple to Safety After Pilot Passes Out
When one of the nation's 15,000 air traffic controllers does something wrong, you always hear about it. When one of them does something right,...
Google Joins With Angels to Bankroll Education Microloan Upstart Vittana
Vittana, the Seattle non-profit that’s facilitating micro-loans to students in developing countries, has received a $250,000 grant from Google. Seattle tech CEOs are also...
A Homeless Teen Named National Science Prize Finalist is Given Housing and Help
A dedicated marine biology student at a Long Island High School learned she was named one of 61 finalists for the $100,000 Intel Science...
The Gift of a New Roof Touches Many
Neighbors in Greenwood have banded together to give another neighbor a special Christmas present: a new roof. The story began several weeks ago when...
Girl Sends Wish to Santa on 2 Pink Balloons, Found and Answered 700 Miles Away
A little girl’s Christmas wish is coming true after a letter to Santa soared 684 miles on two little pink balloons, landing on a...
AAA Trucks Now Carry Electric Vehicle Chargers in 6 Cities
AAA is about to roll out the nation’s first fleet of mobile electric-vehicle quick chargers.
The company, which serves more than 52 million motorists, has...
Strong Consumer Sales and Big-Ticket Purchases for Businesses
Consumers ignored the scary headlines and handwringing and went clothes shopping anyway in September, creating solid sales gains for the nation’s biggest retailers.
Overall, chain-store...
Ironworkers Paint Names on Beams for Children in Hospital Windows
Looking out of the windows of Seattle Children's hospital, patients eagerly search for new names painted on steel beams by union workers constructing a...
Delta Confirms Purchase of 100 Fuel-Efficient Planes
Delta Air Lines on Thursday confirmed its plan to buy 100 Boeing 737 jets that not only offer perks for travelers including a roomier...
Microfinance Effort Matches Tiny Lenders with Kids Who Yearn for College Worldwide
Another micro-finance initiative is improving the economic outlook for poor families around the world, this time through the financing of college tuition for students.
Although...
Thousands Honor 9-Year-old’s Memory with $331,000 to her Charity
Rachel Beckwith is getting her wish -- more than 1000 times over.
One month before she was fatally injured in a car crash last week,...
Ad Hoc Efforts Help Cut U.S. Healthcare Costs
There is a glimmer of hope in the U.S. health care system for cutting sky-rocketing costs. Innovative programs have helped reduce costs by millions...
He Won $3.4 Million — Then Went Back to Work as Janitor
Five years ago, an Evergreen High School custodian was in the middle of bankruptcy when he won the Washington State Lottery’s Quinto game --...
New Bill in Congress Today Allows States to Legalize Pot
Congressmen Barney Frank (D-MA) and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX) will introduce a bill in the US Congress today that would allow each...
Farming at Leavenworth Prison Trains Inmates, Feeds Needy
A fresh foods program at the Leavenworth Penitentiary has inmates growing a quarter million pounds of produce every year, which produces free healthy food...
Obama Announces Plan to Cut Government Waste, Identifying $33 Billion So Far
President Barack Obama announced a new effort Monday to eliminate government waste, citing as an example the daily printing of the Federal Register, which...
GM Announces Investment of $67 Million in US Car Plants in Ohio, Kansas
General Motors says it will spend $47 million at a factory in Defiance, Ohio, so it can build more parts that go into the...