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Kindly Customer Leaves $1,000 Tip So Waitress Can Visit Italy

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:58:50 +0000

Some days, you make more in tips than others. A woman on Tumblr shared a story about how her waitress mother recently got a $1,000 tip from a customer on a $60 bill. The rather large gratuity came after the woman told the customer how her family is from Italy and she has studied art [...]

Watch a Heroic Police Officer Save a Man from an Oncoming Train

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:08:59 +0000

It looks like something out a superhero movie, but itâ€™s for real. A police officer in Columbia saved a man from an oncoming train when he tried to jump in front of it. The man appears to try and commit suicide by stepping in front of the train when the cop reached in and grabbed [...]

Fourth Grade Student Writes Awesome Essay Defending Gay Marriage

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:28:31 +0000

The debate over gay marriage has gotten a little more childish. And that’s a good thing.Â A fourth grade student who was given an assignment to write a persuasive essay tackled the controversial subject and the results have gone viral, with his teacher posting the piece on Reddit. Yes, the essay has some grammatical errors [...]

Golden Retrievers Help Newtown Mourners Deal With Their Grief

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:05:01 +0000

There is nothing anyone can do to take away the pain the community of Newtown, Connecticut is going through right now. But a charity group from Illinois is using man’s best friend to provide a little comfort to those who are mourning the loss of life from last Friday’s mass school shooting. Lutheran Church Charities [...]

Kindly Cop Wraps $100 in Traffic Ticket

Donald Deane — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:45:57 +0000

When 25-year-old Hayden Carlo was recently pulled over in Plano, Texas, for an expired registration sticker on his car, he naturally got a ticket. But the cop who issued the citation also did something entirely unexpected -- he gave Carlo $100 so he could afford the registration fee.

It's Not All Bad — There Are Some Good Kids Out There, Too

Brett Alan — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:46:13 +0000

As I sit here reading all the comments on the story about the bullied bus monitor from Greece, N.Y., the world seems like a pretty hopeless place. Kids have been disrespecting each other and are now moving on to the adults. It's sad what has happened with some of them. It would be easy to sit here and say that there is something wrong with this generation. But I have to keep telling myself, not all kids are bad.