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(UPDATE) Homeless Man Reacts to $148K Reward for Returning Backpack, $40K

After Glen James, a homeless man from Boston, found and returned a backpack with more than $40,000 worth of cash and traveler’s checks, a...
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Too Many Tomatoes? Great Recipe Helps Clear the Window Sill

My favorite recipe beckoned yesterday, after bringing home a bag of season-ending tomatoes from the farmers market here in Virginia. A guaranteed show-stopper, my Tomato...
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(UPDATE) Fund For Honest Boston Homeless Man Breaks $100,000

The fund for Glen James, set up for the homeless man who returned a backpack with $42,000 inside, has collected more than double that...
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Homeless Man Turns in Lost Backpack Stuffed With $42,000 – And Donations Pour In

A homeless Good Samaritan turned in a lost backpack stuffed with nearly $42,000 in cash and travelers cheques he found Saturday at a Dorchester...
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Sweet Story of a Returned Wallet Sparks Kindness Party

This picture, posted recently on Reddit.com, was photographed in New York City where someone was thrilled to have their wallet returned and desperately wanted...
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Man Carrying Sign Finally Finds Kidney for Wife — and Many Others

A South Carolina man who carried a sign for a year seeking a kidney for his wife finally got word of an organ match...
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Florida Teen Becomes Youngest To Pass Bar Exam

A teenager has become the youngest person to qualify as a barrister in the 600 year history of the legal profession in the UK....
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Marine Tribute to the Bravest Four-legged War Hero Ever

Sgt. Reckless became a war hero to Marines fighting in Korea 60 years ago. The small Mongolian horse hauled supplies and ammunition on the...
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Fishermen Dive Below to Rescue Endangered Right Whale From Entanglement (Video)

Virginia fishermen, Captain Pat Foster and Mate Adrian Colaprete, single-handedly rescued an endangered Northern Right Whale. They caught sight of the creature 50 miles...
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Fans Late for a Concert Help a Stranded Cyclist Dave Matthews, Star of the Show

A pair of fans on their way to see the Dave Matthews Band in concert in Hershey, Pennsylvania Saturday night were late -- but...
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Hero Daughter Lifts 5600-pound Jeep After it Trapped her Dad

After the truck he was working on fell off the jack, Adam Simmons, a Plymouth, Mass., resident, was caught under the vehicle. Simmons'...
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4th Generation Succeeds at Renewing Family Oyster Business

The Virginia family sold its first Chesapeake Bay oysters in 1899 to supplement their farming income. But the Croxtons’ son, who took over the...
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14 Year-old Raises $100,000 for Fallen Troops By Shooting Hoops

14 Year old Will Thomas is not just shooting hoops. He's using his jump shot, and Operation Hawkeye, to honor and raise money for...
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Interfaith Churches Convince Banks to Give $30 Million to Help Foreclosed Families

An interfaith group in Virginia has shown what a grassroots group can do when working together for positive change -- in this case, helping...
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Crime and Punishment: Juvenile Offenders Study Russian Literature

Something strange is happening at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center. Residents are so eager to get into a Russian literature class led by the University...
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Little Girl With Cancer Gets Surprise Of a Lifetime From “Prince Charming”

An 8-year-old girl with brain cancer found herself surrounded by a flashmob of love yesterday and it's all thanks to a man who lost...
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Boy is Freed From his Wheelchair by Magic of Photography

Twelve-year-old Luka suffers from muscular dystrophy - a cruel degenerative disease which confines him to a wheelchair and will make him weaker and weaker...
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3000 Miles Away Our Son Ran Into Someone Wearing a GNN Shirt!

Our son, who moved to LA last month, was on the Redondo Beach pier and saw a guy wearing our GOOD HAPPENS shirt! Andy...
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Billions Earned for US Treasury From AIG TARP Repayment

The controversial government bailout of the huge global insurer, AIG, during the worst days of the financial crisis in 2008, will yield billions of...
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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 –...