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Marine Mom Adopts Platoon
Maureen O'Haire gave birth to five children, adopted another four and cared for more than 50 foster kids. But now she's playing mother hen...
U.S. Mayors Band Together Against Illegal Guns
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino teamed up two years ago to launch Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group that...
Waiter’s Flawless Service Rewarded With Full College Scholarship
A full scholarship to a $34,000-a-year private college for an excellent waiter! Always doing your best pays off... (Boston.com) Thanks to Linnea for the...
Top Ten Good News Stories of 2007!
Looking back and choosing the top good news stories of the year was a happy exercise and I've concluded that 2007 was a good...
Enduring Truce Keeps Memories of Victim Alive
"When a 20-year-old Boston gang leader was gunned down in November 2006, some community members feared the truce he helped lead between two city...
No Trash Cans for This 100% Green Burger Joint
Boston's Grille Zone may be the first burger joint in the nation to be certified green, composting all its cups, plates, and cutlery while...
Hospital’s Help to Dying Man Prompts Flood of Messages
A Boston Globe reporter was swamped with notes from people reacting to his story on Patrick Conway, a dying homeless man taken in by...
Homeless Hospice Patient Forges Friendships With Care Staff
He was diagnosed with a tumor that would end his life in a few months. "The homeless man with virtually nothing to his...
American Youths Bridge Religious Divides
"Teens in a Boston suburb lead the way in building relationships among religious faiths in their community through Interfaith Action, a program that has...
Bear Rescued from Sierra Bridge Ledge
Rescuers used a huge nylon net bought at an army surplus store to save a bear dangling over the edge of the 80-foot-high bridge,...
NYC School System Honored as ‘Model of Reform’
New York City public schools have won the 2007 Broad Prize for Urban Education, a $1 million award honoring the most improved school systems,...
New ‘Great Mentors’ Audio Series: GNN-i Presents Free Access to Leaders in Fields of Success
"Keep in mind that happiness is mostly dependent on our state of mind, not on our status or the state of our bank account."
GNN-i...
Neighbors Unite Around ‘Loner’ Among Them
For years, Bill Judge had been a loner, known in his neighborhood for the five old cars in his driveway and his eccentric habits....
Water Hope for Darfur
Boston University researchers have discovered a massive underground lake in the arid Darfur region of Sudan. By digging 1000 wells they hope to quell...
Ode to the Founding Fathers on the Fourth of July
Editor's Blog -Happy Independence Day to all Americans!Do you remember the French newspaper headline the day after 9/11: We Are All Americans Now... I...
Visiting Battlefields and WWII Memorial Brings Closure to Elderly Vets
The Greatest Generations Foundation, established in 2004, has so far helped more than 100 World War II veterans return to Europe to battle sites...
NIKE Donates Shoes to Every Teen in New Orleans
The Nike Summer Shoes program kicked off in New Orleans, La., yesterday with a free pair of shoes for every middle and high school...
The Martin Luther King of Football Dies (Tribute)
Eddie Robinson, the legendary football coach of Grambling State University for 56 years, has passed on but is being hailed as one of the...
Sharpshooter Frees Trapped Eagle with One Shot
Biologists who gathered on the shore with binoculars could see the reason for the eagle hanging from a tree and over a cliff. Its...
States Take the Lead on Health Care Reform
Massachusetts has accomplished the improbable: It got Democrats and Republicans to agree on how to provide nearly every resident with health insurance. And it...