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.
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.
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, no