Category: Inspiring News

100-Year-Old Fire Engine in Rough Shape Gets Revamped for Ohio Fire Department

A century-old fire engine that had seen better days has been refurbished for the local fire department in McDonald, Ohio. The fire engine—a 100-year-old 1917 Model T—was decommissioned, left in a garage for many years, and was in rough shape. McDonald’s now-retired fire chief Todd Stitt enlisted the help of Larry Manaro, a local mechanic, to…


Grocery Store Worker With Autism Saves Baby, Gets Honored With a Day Named After Him

An Illinois grocery store worker recently received an award of honor and a surprise proclamation from the city mayor for his heroic action of saving a toddler in a runaway cart. Ben Mazur, 24, who is on the autism spectrum, is an employee of Schnucks in Alton. Mazur was on his usual routine of collecting carts outside the…


Photos: The Profound Bond Between Mongolia’s Last Eagle Keepers and Their Mighty Birds

Venturing to Mongolia to meet the country’s last remaining nomadic eagle keepers, Russian photographer Daniel Kordan turned his reverence into a series of incredible photographs. Kordan’s work, a breathtaking mixture of epic landscape photography and intimate portraiture, exemplifies the bond between the keepers and their birds—an elusive 1,000-year-old tradition that runs the risk of dying…


Video Shows Track Team Helping Fellow Runner Battling Cancer Cross Finish Line—and It Goes Viral

A high school track and field team in New York was caught on video helping their fellow runner, who is suffering from cancer, cross the finish line after enduring grueling treatment. The video, posted by the school on Twitter, went viral and has inspired viewers across the internet. Sherendehowa High School senior Yeva Klingbeil is…


Woman Is Shocked After Giving Birth to a Boy Weighing 12lb 9oz and Measuring 2 Feet Tall

A mother in England was left astonished after giving birth to a baby boy measuring two feet tall and weighing a whopping 12 pounds 9 ounces (5.7 kg). He was so big that he didn’t even fit on the weighing scales. Amy, 27, and her husband Zac Smit, 28, from the Buckinghamshire village of Cheddington,…


2 College Students Meet by Chance on Bus, Discover They Once Lived in Same Orphanage in China

A pair of Virginia college students thought they were strangers when they found themselves sitting beside each other on a campus bus. But after striking up a casual conversation, they found they had some incredible things in common: they were both adopted, and both came from the same orphanage—in China. The two students say their…


Mom Quit Law School to Raise Kids—but Son Who Died in Iraq Inspires Her to Graduate at Age 60

After quitting college to raise a family, mom of three Deanna “Dee” House held onto her dream of one day finishing her law degree. Dee had cut short her education after one semester at the University of Maine School of Law in 1992. Later, devastated when her son Joel, a soldier, was killed in Iraq, his bravery…


Unreal Photos Show ‘Super Blood Moon’ During Total Lunar Eclipse Across the Pacific

Early Wednesday morning, both sides of the Pacific witnessed an extraordinary celestial sight of notable rarity, when the largest supermoon of 2021 coincided with a total lunar eclipse. Adding to the stellar spectacle, a deep, reddish glow was cast upon the lunar disc due to an atmospheric effect—a phenomenon which gives rise to the moniker:…


Woman Neglected by Mom With Addiction Reunites With Bus Driver Who Saved Her 30 Years Ago

Noticing a 4-year-old on her school bus route living in an unsafe home situation, a New Bedford bus driver stepped in. She may not have known it at the time, but her intervention changed the little girl and her two sisters’ fate for the better. Thirty years on, Kathy Neves and now-34-year-old Amanda Joseph have reunited….


Uber Passenger Helps Single Mom Driver Clear Debt and Graduate College

An encounter with a generous Uber passenger changed driver Latonya Young’s fate, empowering her to realize her dream of graduating from college. Picking up passenger Kevin Esch from a soccer game three years ago in May 2018, Young opened up about wanting to return to school. But life was holding her back; a single mom…