Washington Nationals baseball phenom Bryce Harper hit two home runs in his first two at-bats on opening day. Harper is the youngest player in Major League Baseball History to go yard twice on opening day. Harper was the National League Rookie Of the Year in 2012, and doesn’t look likeContinue Reading
Carnegie Hall is an impressive feat for any musician, but for the Afghanistan National Institute of Music’s youth orchestra, this was almost unimaginable…until now. One may ask how this would be such an impressive event? In Afghanistan, the Taliban banned music. Fortunately, there are good people in the world thatContinue Reading
Megan Erickson and Jarrod Vancannon had their Iowa wedding all planned. Megan made her $100 deposit on her $1035 dress and they were ready to wed! Unfortunately, Jarrod got injured at work and suddenly they could not pay for their dream wedding. Megan went back to Pure Bridal and toldContinue Reading
Billy Ray Harris, a homeless man in Kansas City, was asking for money when Sarah Darling came by. Sarah, opened her wallet and dumped all of her change in his cup…along with her expensive diamond engagement ring. “My rings were bothering me, so I put them in my coin purse.”Continue Reading
Leonard Cooper, won the ‘Teen Jeopardy’ tournament this week with a $37,000 score and a $75,000 toal for first place. It wasn’t just the impressive amount of money that he came away with, or the even cooler afro that he was sporting, but it was his answer to final JeopardyContinue Reading
Can you imagine staying with one company for 73 years? That’s pretty difficult for many to comprehend because the average time that individuals stay at a particular job today is between 4 and 5 years according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Rose Syracuse Richardone began working at Macy’s flagshipContinue Reading
Ask yourself honestly: You find a big wad of cash on the ground, there are no surveillance cameras in sight, and nobody is watching you, what do you do? Jennifer Jacobson, a stay-at-home mom in Maine, admits that she had to think about it for a minute when her eight-year-oldContinue Reading
PORTAGE – The North American Wood Bison is still on the endangered species list, but its numbers are thriving at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. The Wood Bison Recovery Program started at AWCC almost ten years ago with 13 bison from Canada. Now there are 120 and dozens more onContinue Reading
A Texas kindergarten teacher has given a life-saving gift to one of her student’s parents. Marie Bell donated one of her kidneys to a the father of one of her students. “People have said things to me like, ‘You’re a hero. You’re an angel. This is extraordinary.’ And to me,Continue Reading
If you’re feeling stressed, maybe the best thing you can do is crack a smile. New research shows that smiling — and especially genuine smiling (where your eyes and mouth muscles are engaged) — may play a part in lowering heart rate after you’ve done something stressful. The study willContinue Reading