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Judy Pugh was one of the victims of the devastating tornados that leveled Tuscaloosa last month. Surveying the wreckage of her house, it’s a miracle that Judy made it out alive. As the tornado hit, Judy made a desperate attempt to grab her beloved cat Cadie through the heavy flying debris. Just as she was…

Ask most little girls what they want to be when they grow up and you’ll hear “princess” or “mermaid” from many. For Nadya Vessey, her dream was just to walk. As a child, the now 50 year old Nadya, had a rare condition that kept her legs from developing and she was forced to have…

It started like any other day for Kevin Burgess. He pulled into his driveway and felt a haunting thump. It was his two young children, Tanner and Thomas. Thomas, the younger of the two was trapped beneath the tires of the 8,000 pound truck. Kevin’s wife Tiffany watched in absolute horror from the porch and…

On the battlefield in Herat, Afghanistan, Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Lee, Private 1st Class Ben Bradley and two other soldiers with the Red Platoon, Bulldog troop found themselves in peril. A rocket propelled grenade penetrated their fighting position putting them in direct line of deadly sharp shrapnel. That’s when Valdo, a 7 year old combat…

Sports fans are notorious for being harsh. Most the stories you read about are hooligans brawling in the stands, unruly crowds throwing beer bottles or the infamous incident in Philadelphia when Eagle’s fans booed Santa Claus off the field. Last week, Boston Red Sox fans did something completely unexpected at a sporting event. It was…

It’s been 5 years since Jason “J-Mac” McElwain ignited the world by coming off the bench at a Greece Athena High School basketball game to score 20 points in the last 4 minutes of a game against Spencerport High School. Scoring 20 points in less than 200 seconds is an epic feat, but that’s not…

Hirotada Ototake, a Japanese sportswriter, threw out the first pitch at a Seibu-Rakuten game. It’s something many young boys dream about but for Otto (his playful nickname) it seemed like an impossible dream, not to throw out the first pitch at a pro game, just to throw a ball at all. He was born with no…

Willard Wigans was born with a learning disability and as a child he often felt small and insignificant. That set him on a life’s mission to prove that there could be immense beauty in something that was so small that the human eye could not even see it. He decided to express himself through art,…

This may be one of the feel-good stories of the year.  Carlos Flores, New York’s newest subway hero, met the man he saved at the hospital after the incident.  Thomas Grant was on his way to volunteer at a soup kitchen in Manhattan when realized he was going to have an epileptic seizure.  He blacked…
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