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Flash Mob Helps Lift Sick Patient’s Spirits in Kansas City
Friends of a young man who recently underwent a bone marrow transplant for a serious blood disorder created a flash mob outside his hospital...
Kansas Farmer Who Built 150-foot Replica Finally Sees Real Golden Gate Bridge
Four decades after "a scared 19-year-old kid" rolled over the Golden Gate Bridge on his way to combat in Vietnam, and after promising his...
Update on Chelsea Clinton Arkansas Story: After NBC Show Donations Flood in
Annette Dove had no idea that an NBC Nightly News segment would cause an avalanche of donations for her Pine Bluff program that feeds...
Chelsea Clinton Files First Good News Report: Miracle Worker for Kids in Rural Arkansas
Now working for NBC, Chelsea Clinton files her first "good news" report from her home state of Arkansas about a woman in rural Pine...
$800 Million Kansas Wind Farm Set for 2012
BP announced plans on Monday to build an $800 million wind farm in Kansas next year, providing a lift for the US wind power...
Rural Doctor Shortage Prompts Opening of Kansas Medical School
A Kansas college hopes young doctors will be more willing to practice in small towns if they go to a medical school in a...
GM Announces Investment of $67 Million in US Car Plants in Ohio, Kansas
General Motors says it will spend $47 million at a factory in Defiance, Ohio, so it can build more parts that go into the...
Kansas Town That was Flattened by Tornado Rebuilt Green; Can Others Do the Same?
As the cities and towns ravaged by tornadoes slowly shift their focus from relief efforts to long-term rebuilding, they might want to take a...
Renewal in Kansas City Jazz Scene Encouraging
Much as prognosticators claim to see green shoots in the nation’s struggling economy, Kansas City’s jazz scene demonstrated encouraging signs of renewed vigor after...
(Updated w/ Video) Golden Retriever Adopts 3 Tiger Cubs at Kansas Zoo
Lots of people wrote in telling me to link to the photo and story of the Golden Retriever nursing three newborn striped tiger cubs...
Good News in History, November 21
This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—November 21.
Good News in History, November 20
66 years Jim and Jane Henson established Muppets Inc. The company has produced many successful television series, including The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and...
Couple Uses Wedding Fund to Pay for Surgery on Injured Dog Found on Side of Road: ‘She Deserved a Chance’
A couple in Arkansas have emptied their savings and wedding fund to save a 10-month old dog found stricken by the side of the...
95-year-old Pickleball Player Dominates the Courts: ‘I Keep moving’
From Kansas comes the story of a timeless American: a great-great-grandmother who sings, dances, and plays pickleball twice a week.
Lois White puts the elder...
When Missouri School Wanted to Rename Their Building, They All Agreed to Honor the Longtime Janitor
A Missouri K-8 school was debating long and hard over what to rename their school.
The decision-makers could have picked any number of famous Missouri...
Good News in History, October 23
Happy 70th Birthday to Ang Lee, the filmmaker who was a stay-at-home dad before gaining fame for directing the Oscar-winning films Brokeback Mountain and...
Good News in History, October 14
157 years ago today, Masaoka Shiki, considered one of Japan's four masters of haiku, was born. He wrote more than 20,000 stanzas of this...
Good News in History September 25
55 years ago today, the charter establishing the Organization of Islamic Cooperation was signed in Rabat, Morocco. The OIC consists of 47 members that...
Good News in History, September 8
Happy Birthday to the singer-songwriter Pink, who turns 45 years old today. Before fame, she dreamed of being an Olympic athlete from Pennsylvania, but...
Good News in History, August 23
Happy 73rd Birthday to DC's own Lisa Halaby, famously known to the world as Queen Noor of Jordan. The second-generation Washingtonian married King Hussein...