U.S. STORIES:
- National Day of Service calls on Americans to help others On Saturday Jan. 19 in Washington, D.C., as well as around the United States, a National Day of Service will find Americans volunteering in myriad ways to serve others.
- NJ Boy, 3, Hailed As Hero After Hearing Injured Neighbor’s Plea For Help Ethan Sojka alerted his dad to cries of Dale Cottrell, who is recovering.
- Humble Hero Pulls Driver From Watery Grave A man who saw the whole thing sprang into action and may have made all the difference.
- Guardian angel was on duty at The Kettle It’s good to know that there are still people willing to get involved.
- Passer-by walking by bank stops alleged robber Merrill Lake never heard the bank manager call for help. He read her lips.
- Service Project by 6-year-old Generates Cash Gift to HopeQuest 6 year old Seth Evaschuk designed and sold Christmas cards this past season to help raise funds for Hopequest Ministry Group.
- Kindness is Contagious: Miracle in shape of a doughnut Acts of kindness aren’t necessarily about doing things for people that they cannot do for themselves.
- Paying it forward Mom and kids show acts of kindness on her birthday.
- Jada Robbins: A 9-Year-Old Miracle She’s a trooper that the community has volunteered to rally around.
- Community Rallies to Raise Money for Nine-month-old's Prosthetic Arms Once "Hands for Jameson" was posted on the site, the donations began pouring in.
- Duo hope to foster mentors for Big Brothers Big Sisters Lisa Postas and Shannon Ansari have been hired by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County to coordinate mentoring programs in Oxnard and Thousand Oaks.
- Kids pay it forward One hundred students each received $10 from an anonymous donor the day before Christmas break.
- Alec Loorz of Ventura to receive Coretta Scott King A.N.G.E.L. Award He was named the first recipient of the inaugural Coretta Scott King A.N.G.E.L. Award — Advancing Nonviolence through Generations of Exceptional Leadership — which recognizes young leaders ages 12-25.
- My Friend, My Hero, My Mom She has spent her entire life, including a very rough childhood caring and worrying about other people.
- Sunny Shaw a Teacher, Grandmother, Volunteer, Braintree's 'Guardian Angel' The founder of Braintree's annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Peacemaker" celebration, Sunny Shaw received the 2013 award.
- NHS teacher selected as Unsung Hero Naugatuck High School teacher Karen Dupre was selected as an Unsung Hero in the Saint Michael’s College Teacher Recognition Program.
- ‘Praying for a miracle’ for Eva Hoaby It’s strengthening for the parents when strangers can look at their daughter’s face and “see how special she is,” Ashlee said.
- Children's Miracle Network Helps Family Receive Care Shelby Shores, 10, has been making great strides thanks to the help of Children's Miracle Network and a special doctor.
- Local Hero Ray Gant organizing 1000 volunteers for MLK Day service projects It is through his volunteer work that NewsWorks learned about the former drug dealer who has been uplifting the community by cleaning the city’s streets for 12 years.
- Family Promise effort gives hope to homeless She was on the verge of giving up when someone told her about Family Promise of Carteret County, a program that houses the homeless in county churches and helps them get back on their feet.
- Inauguration Day marks rare intersection with King President Barack Obama plans to use a Bible that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he takes his oath of office on the holiday honoring the slain icon, marking what some say is an inextricable tie between the nation's first black president and the civil rights movement.
- Local group aims to build $75 million veterans facility in North Texas It wasn't until one of her brothers returned from his fourth tour of duty that Stack realized she wanted to do much more than just stand behind them.
WORLD:
- Hero mum stops car thief A Woodridge mother threw herself into the path of a moving car after a thief attempted to steal the vehicle with her 15-month-old baby girl inside.
- ‘Earth angel’ buys Tamiflu for flu sufferer with MS Levair is hugely grateful to the unknown person who came to her aid. “I’m going to be on this medication, and hopefully, I won’t die.”
- John Nkomo declared national hero President Mugabe described the Nkomo as a peacemaker. Nkomo, he said, had established the John Nkomo Secondary School because of his love for the people.
- It's snow-day UK! As snowstorms sweeps the UK our readers are sending in their best pictures from every corner of the country.
- Myanmar aims to improve lives, modernize with new reforms Myanmar's government will unveil a slew of new reforms to donor countries and international organizations this weekend, aiming to consolidate achievements since the end of military rule in 2011 but also quickly improve the lives of its citizens.
- Explorer's rare Scotch returned to Antarctic stash Three bottles of rare, 19th century Scotch found beneath the floor boards of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackelton's abandoned expedition base were returned to the polar continent Saturday after a distiller flew them to Scotland to recreate the long-lost recipe.
FURRY FRIENDS:
- Panda Boot Camp Teaches Cubs Survival Skills Scientists are hoping to teach the roly-poly bears survival skills they'll need for living in the wild.
- A family pet is being known as a Perham miracle A much-loved family pet is back home after a long-journey nearly took his life.
BUSINESS:
- FedEx donates Boeing 727 to Calif. Baptist Univ. FedEx Express has donated a Boeing 727-200F to California Baptist University for its new aviation science program.
SPORTS:
- Swansea City defender Angel Rangel asks Twitter followers to aid homeless help The Spanish right-back and his wife were given bags of unwanted sandwiches from a shop in the Welsh city and decided to try to find homeless people to donate them to.
- A Real Cycling Hero Conner Long loved to ride his bike. He didn’t love that his brother was always on the sidelines.
- Vatican Invites Tim Tebow, Jeremy Lin to Help With Scandal-Plagued Sports In the battle to combat immorality and instill certain values into professional sports, the Vatican says it wants NFL star Tim Tebow and NBA sensation Jeremy Lin on its team.
- Miracle League celebrating 10 years The field, designed for special needs children, was the first of its kind in the state.
- Man Builds Backyard Ice Rink Using 15,000 Gallons of Water "The construction took five days," Vriesema told ABCNews.com. "It would have taken longer but this was our third year doing it.”
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY:
- NASA Announces Space Station Science Challenge Winners Students from two schools, one in Iowa and the other in New York, are the winners of the International Space Station (ISS) Science Challenge, NASA announced Friday.
- Stain-Proof Material Can Repel Virtually Any Liquid For the first time, lab researchers have created a "superomniphobic" coating that resists not only water and juice but everything from blood to hydrochloric acid.
- Colosseum restoration of only remaining covered passage yields 3rd century frescoes, graffiti A long-delayed restoration of the Colosseum's only intact internal passageway has yielded ancient traces of colorful frescoes, as well as graffiti and drawings of phallic symbols, indicating that the arena where gladiators fought was far more colorful than previously thought.
- Storms Turn Up Lard from WWII Shipwreck After storms lashed Scotland over the holidays, some strange World War II-era relics turned up on the country's chilly coast, including decades-old lard from a shipwreck and bunker blocks buried on a beach.
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT:
- Rock All-stars will 'Play it Forward' again for music education Music Aid Northwest has been involved in helping evangelize music education since 2006, as well as assisting in fund raising for disaster relief and other benevolence projects.
- Street Heat Band Provides Hope and Inspiration to Area Students He knows the group is making a difference in the lives of youth because of the responses he hears from kids who have been watching Street Heat perform most of their lives even into their adulthood.
- Trampled By Turtles Pay It Forward It’s kind of a nice opportunity to direct some energy some place where it can do some good.
- NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' to March in Obama's Inaugural Parade NASA's famed "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowsi will march in Monday's Presidential Inaugural Parade along with life-size replicas of the space agency's Mars rover Curiosity and Orion space capsule.
- Embrace ice: 8 cool getaways From snow villages to pyrotechnic-laced skiing theater to ice hotels built from blocks of the cold stuff, we've created a roundup of the best frozen getaways around the world.
LIFESTYLE:
- Mensa Offers Free IQ Test, Brain Tips American Mensa, the largest high IQ society in the country, is offering their online home test for free during January.
- How to Turn Your Clutter Into Cash Selling your used items is a lot easier and more profitable than the old days of a garage sale.
- Couple Glues 60,000 Pennies to Bedroom Floor "We'd been looking up options and were thinking about being green when I said we should just tile the floor in pennies."
- People who don't stink still wear deodorant, study finds The findings, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, show just how much a person's daily life is dictated by what's considered normal.
RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY:
- God is all over inauguration But through all of them, including the ceremony this Monday, God alone has maintained a consistent role.
- When God interrupts your life, good things can happen You start your activities for the day as usual. Then an unexpected, mysterious interruption happens that changes your life forever.
- I have no use for money. This is God’s work Having already given away $28bn, Bill Gates intends to eradicate polio, with the same drive he brought to Microsoft.
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