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Misplacing items is a fact of life for most of us. It's bound to happen sooner or later. But there are certainly different levels of panic that ensue depending on ...

Being approached by a police officer can be intimidating, even when you haven't done anything wrong. Many police departments have been working on their community presence by participating in local ...

The Atlanta Humane Society, Hancock Animal Friends and the ASPCA headed out to a property outside of Milledgeville, Georgia, on Saturday to remove dozens of dogs that were in terrible ...

Aleta Cyvertsen from River Bend, North Carolina, was being a good Samaritan on April 12, mowing her elderly neighbor's yard -- but that decision nearly cost her her life. Cyvertsen, ...

"We come together as a community."

Lincoln is a flat-coated retriever from Seattle, Washington, who has already accomplished much in his five years of life -- but he almost never got the chance. When he was ...

Not everyone has a platform from which to help millions of people or funds to help end world hunger -- but everyone has the capacity to make the world a ...

When firefighters in Sacramento, California, showed up to a blaze last week, they walked away from the scene with one more in their crew than they arrived with. A fire ...

It can be difficult to know how to commemorate a good father, how to come up with the perfect gift that acknowledges not only all the hard work they've put ...

Many times when we want to help others, we're encouraged to draw from our skillsets and knowledge bases to provide unique services to those who need them. But sometimes, the ...

Macario Chism of Missouri spends most of his days as a sanitation worker with Waste Pro USA, taking care of people's trash. But on one day in January, that very ...

Last year on New Year's Eve, a driver at the Lynchburg Ferry Terminal in Baytown, Texas, made a grave error. For whatever reason, the driver did not stop in time ...

Editor’s Note: Our readers responded strongly to this story when it originally ran; we’re reposting it here in case you missed it. Have you ever done something that you thought ...

If you have a dog that means the world to you, you know how dire your situation would have to be to force you to give it up. A young ...

Nikki Mediouni and her family were excited to go on a trip she had planned last October. She, her husband Malek and their two boys -- ages 6 and 3 ...

When Erin Sorensen and her dog Scout were out for a walk on March 3, Scout noticed something out of place: a toy, ragged and dirty, on a road in ...

Every person is unique in his or her gifts, and when people tap into those strengths to help others, a beautiful and creative variety of charitable outreaches are born. For ...

In July 2021, a woman came across a moving post online that prompted her to ask her husband a question: Would he be willing to donate a kidney to a ...

It can be difficult to know how to help people far away who are dealing with realities that most would consider a nightmare. Some people seem to have obvious options ...

When Flaik the cat ventured into a storm drain, he bit off more adventure than he could chew. His owner, Wendy Olivier, was worried sick when he disappeared into the ...