Category: People

Man Seen Dangling Off UK Motorway Bridge—Then Truck Driver Parks Under Him to Save His Life

A photo posted on Facebook last Thursday in the UK shows a man who climbed over the M62 motorway bridge railing, his legs dangling precariously over the ledge, and it has garnered reactions from social media users. People online praised a long-haul truck driver who parked his vehicle underneath the man to break his fall,…


Taco Bell Employee Has Bike Stolen Outside Restaurant—so Police Officer Gets Him a New One

A Taco Bell employee who had his bike stolen outside the restaurant where he worked in Ferndale, Michigan, got a pleasant surprise when a kind police officer got him a new set of wheels. Ferndale police officer Christopher Wiacek got a call about the stolen bike from the scene at Taco Bell on West Nine Mile…


Pregnant Mom Feels Baby Kick When Doctor Suggests Abortion; Now That Baby Is 6 and Thriving

As one of the tiniest babies ever delivered by her doctors, micro-preemie Naomi Bakker faced an uphill battle for survival from the first. Many medical professionals feared she had no hope. When abortion was tabled as an alternative, Naomi’s parents said no. When it seemed prayer was their only hope, they prayed. Now, at almost…


A Daughter’s First Love

Sunday is Father’s Day. In Catholic Europe, fathers had been celebrated since the Middle Ages albeit in March coinciding with the feast of St. Joseph. As early as 1908, a young grieving woman, Grace Clayton, in West Virginia wanted to honor her father who had been killed in a tragic mining accident. With 361 men…


Staff at an ASDA Store Give Girl, 10, a Gift Card After She Lost Birthday Money to Buy a Book

Staff members at an ASDA store in Milton Keynes, England, made the birthday of a 10-year-old girl special after she lost the money to buy a book. Adaya Lubega had accompanied her mother Louanna to the store to purchase a book titled “A Series of Unfortunate Events” by Lemony Snicket. With her, the little girl…


Sister of US Soldier Loses Her Hair Battling Cancer, so Compatriots Shave Heads in Support

Over a dozen soldiers, currently stationed in Kuwait, recently shaved their heads in support of a fellow teammate’s sister, who lost her hair during her battle with brain cancer. Sgt. Brandon Stafford’s older sister, Melissa Hjelle, who works as a traffic safety program coordinator in Minnesota, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in her right…


Sister of US Soldier Loses Her Hair Battling Cancer, so Comrades Shave Heads in Support

Over a dozen soldiers, currently stationed in Kuwait, recently shaved their heads in support of a fellow teammate’s sister, who lost her hair during her battle with brain cancer. Sgt. Brandon Stafford’s older sister, Melissa Hjelle, who works as a traffic safety program coordinator in Minnesota, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in her right…


‘I Didn’t Think Twice’: Woman Fulfills Late Sister’s Last Wish, Takes Care of Her 6 Children

A woman from Saskatoon, Canada, has honored her deceased sister’s last wish by taking all six of her children into her home. Rachel Smith, a mother of five and owner of Bannock Express Restaurant, took the kids in after her sister died of a seizure in late 2020, CBC News reported. Cheryl Kay had suffered multiple…


‘Thank You for Staying’: 56-Year-Old With Alzheimer’s Proposes to Wife, Again—and She Says Yes

Peter Marshall didn’t know that the woman sitting next to him—his “favorite person”—was already his wife. Suffering early onset Alzheimer’s, the 56-year-old man from Connecticut had fallen in love for a second time. Not remembering his wife, nor their first wedding, Peter had done nothing short of proposing again; and the pair actually went ahead and…


Great-Great-Great-Grandmother With 92 Grandchildren Celebrates Her 100th Birthday

Meet the family spanning six generations of females—with the great-great-great-grandmother celebrating her 100th birthday. With 98 years between Rose Sharp and her great-great-great-granddaughter Amelia, the family from Kent, England, are thrilled to be able to mark the milestone birthday all together. The 100-year-old mother of eight is the head of a huge family and has…