An Arizona couple with two biological and seven adopted children have just welcomed two more adopted siblings into their home, making them a family of 13. The proud parents, who call all their kids “precious jewels,” claim God directed them every step of the way. Elementary grade school counselor Maria Hansen-Quine, from Phoenix, and her…

Buying and selling babies is illegal in China. However, some have found ways to evade detection. According to a September report from The Paper, a Chinese state-owned digital newspaper, a couple in China successfully registered a baby that they bought, through illegal channels, by claiming that the baby had been “abandoned.” Zhang Xing and Liu…

A search party located the body of a man who had gone missing in California. He was with his dog at the time, and the loyal friend (who survived) had refused to leave his side for two days before they were found. The man, David Deshon, is survived by his daughter Shona, who told CBS Sacramento she…

In July 2018, a sheriff’s deputy came across a starving baby girl living in squalor, inside a filthy trailer with her father. The deputy was responding to an unrelated call in San Bernardino County, California; and fearing for her life, the officer intervened. Almost three years later, the little girl is now thriving in a new…

A 5-year-old boxer mix that was abandoned in a church parking lot in Abilene, Texas, with a litter of nine puppies is now recovered after being adopted by her forever family. A local took a picture of the dog, now named Dory, nursing her litter next to a Rubbermaid tote covered in duct tape, where…