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- After losing both legs, a soldier in a famous viral photo recovers with sled hockey
- A Limo Driver and Waitress team up to give a Disabled Student with the only known case of his DNA disorder a great Prom experience!
- Dramatic video shows police pulling woman from a car sinking in Texas lake
- How Portland teenagers are fighting the city’s homeless crisis
- Incredible Edible: Yorkshire town’s food-growing scheme takes root worldwide. When two women began turning disused verges in the former mill town of Todmorden into free food plots, little did they realize they would inspire a global movement of growers.
- In recognition of the state’s two official languages, the University of HawaiÊ»i€˜s 10 campuses will begin issuing their graduates two diplomas€”one in English and one in Hawaiian€”during the 2017-18 academic year.
- Dog Hiding in Stolen Car Turns Up 24 Hours Later
- 76ers billionaire owner talks friendship, freeing Meek Mill
- Cute kittens reportedly freed from Florida detective’s car
- American Air Force Col. searches for his Japanese birth mother. He found her €” and the restaurant she had named after him.
- Party on, dudes: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter sign on for third Bill and Ted film. Bill and Ted Face the Music comes almost 30 years after the first film and will catch up with the characters in middle-age.
- Paralyzed football player defies odds, walks down the aisle at his wedding
- He was a senior with college dreams. Two years after being paralyzed by gunfire, Jonathan Annicks pushes forward
- Dog rescued after getting stuck at smelly Colorado wastewater treatment plant
- We’re Trying to Find the €˜Nicest Places in America’ – You Can Even Nominate Your Coffee Shop
- Moment cystic fibrosis sufferer, 24, takes first steps after successful double lung transplant
- ‘Thankful’ shelter dog saved from euthanasia snuggles rescuer during the car ride home
- Hawaii to be carbon neutral by 2045: Lawmakers, business innovators, and community advocates celebrated the passage of H.B. 2182 Tuesday, which sets the goal of €œsequestering more atmospheric carbon and greenhouse gases than the State produces as quickly as practicable, but no later than 2045.€
- Katy Perry Sends Taylor Swift an €˜Actual’ Olive Branch
- Clarksville military couple adopts twins from terminally ill mother
- Dad shaves his head to look like his daughter with alopecia
- Officers were Lit and Turnt up
- A 78-year-old man fights off robbers with a handgun
- Britain’s CO2 emissions have fallen to levels last seen in 1890.
- Microchip Helps 18-Year-Old Cat Missing for 14 Years Reunite with Her Family
- Despite Being Blind and Partially Deaf, Man Has Traveled Solo to 125 Countries on 7 Continents
- Bio-inspired membrane captures 90% of CO2 in power plant emissions
- The ʻAlohilani Resort Waikiki Beach celebrates its grand opening this evening with a pledge to plant 100,000 native trees on Oahu and the Big Island in partnership with the non-profit Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative.
- A potential new cure for baldness has been discovered using a drug originally intended to treat osteoporosis.
- Dying mother gets to watch son graduate from high school in a special hospital ceremony
- 14 Year Old Gets €˜Life Saving Award’ For Saving Man Overdosing On Heroin
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“No other explanation but God”: Boy regains consciousness after brain trauma
- Florida police officers take special needs students to ‘turnt up’ prom
- ‘They’re basically invisible’: Local teen donates time to help homeless
- Paul Kelly, the owner of Paul Kelly Motor Company, is taking all 45 staff at his Christchurch business to Las Vegas for a week to celebrate the 20th Anniversary
- This 13-Year-Old Built A Website That Matches People With Shelter Dogs
- At 16, USC Sumter’s youngest student overcomes autism, Turner syndrome
- For 30 Years, This Cute Critter Was Thought to be Extinct -Until Now
- Man Who Disarmed Waffle House Shooter Raises $229,000 For Victims
- Taylor Swift ‘Reputation’ tour: 2,000 AZ Foster kids treated to a private show
- CRISPR Could Eliminate Genetic Disease.
- 93-yr-old WWII veteran throws the ceremonial 1st pitch in Champaign
- Why this mother of 2 will attempt to run all of Ireland’s Atlantic coast
- Watch Diver Perform Expressive 6-Minute Dance in One Breath at World’s Deepest Pool
- After woman begs for the thief to return dog inside stolen SUV, yellow lab is found
- CPR Marathon: More Than Two Dozen Responders Resuscitate Neighbor for 96 Minutes
- Maryland Woman Meets Bone Marrow Donor Who Saved Her Life
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- Scientists have discovered the first example of a gene that is only found in one sex and provides protection against cancers including an aggressive form of leukemia. Understanding the genetic mutations at the root of devastating blood cancer is €˜key to developing targeted drugs,’ say experts.
- 96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million
- Entire Airport Cheers For Soldier Watching His Wife Give Birth Over FaceTime
- Traumatised bears, wolves find solace at Greek sanctuary: Orphaned as an infant, three-year-old Patrick takes a wary view of visitors. He crouches low, licks his claws and starts humming — a bear’s equivalent of thumb-sucking.
- A woman marries fiancé only days after almost dying from having her right arm ripped off by a crocodile during a canoeing trip
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- California Set to Become First US State Requiring Solar Panels on New Homes
- The Cherokee Nation is donating nearly $500,000 to 131 area volunteer fire departments.
- A student project becomes a city plan to help homeless
- Officer’s ‘extraordinary’ act of kindness goes viral
- Courtesy Clerk Gets Helping Hand From Grocery Store Customers
- Record-breaking paper water purifier operates at near 100% efficiency
- Woman wins $1.2 million on $18 bet that included Kentucky Derby
- USC Student Finds Woman Who Donated Egg That Give Her Life -And Similarities Are Striking
- Almost 100,000 Canadians signed up to become organ donors after Humboldt Broncos crash
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- Sudden Urge For A Slurpee Leads To Woman Saving Man’s Life
- For the first time ever, there’s a job opening for every unemployed worker
- Maui Company Creates Coral-Safe Sunscreen: With help from the Small Business Development Center, Maui resident Jenna Davis created Raw Love Sunscreen, an FDA approved, waterproof and coral-safe sunscreen with no harmful chemicals, preservatives or fillers.
- The statewide Point-in-Time Count, a census of Hawaii’s homeless population, decreased across all islands, indicating that the state is making progress in reducing the country’s highest per capita rate of homelessness.
- A dog was missing for more than a week. Then his whimpering was heard from a drainpipe
- Atlanta’s unprecedented subway soccer field getting global attention
- According to a news release from the county, the Pima County Regional Wastewater reclamation Department won the Project of the Year for its winning entry in the Water Innovation Challenge at the AZ Water Conference for using reclaimed water to make beer.
- A Rockport author has donated 900 books to be distributed to Gloucester and Rockport schoolchildren.
- Firefighters revive kitten rescued from a house fire
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