The night before the burial of her husband’s body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. This photo by Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News sadly shows what Memorial Day 2010 is truly about–honoring those who have lost their lives in service to…

One incredible dog is an uncontested hero for his owner and the state troopers of Anchorage, Alaska. When 23-year-old Ben Heinrichs was in his workshop fixing his truck, a fire started after a spark ignited the gasoline.  His clothes caught on fire and Heinrichs ran outside the workshop to put them out.  To contain the…

When April Capone Almon, the 35-year-old mayor of East Haven, Connecticut, saw Carlos Sanchez’s Facebook update about needing a kidney, she immediately knew what to do. Capone recalled reaching out to Sanchez on Facebook: “I sent him a private message and just said, ‘Hey, I’ll try. I’ll get tested…I really felt from the very beginning…

Would you save a suicidal person by falling 30 feet through the air with them? Robert E. Smith Jr., a 48-year-old father and grandfather from Allentown, PA, did exactly this on Monday. A 20-year-old suicidal woman climbed up a fire escape to the roof of a three-story personal care facility she was staying at in Lehigh Vallery.  News…

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