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Lloyd Devereux Richards wrote the novel “Stone Maidens” 11 years ago. This year, his daughter’s viral TikTok helped it go number one on Amazon.

A man made a unique discovery while at a Pennsylvania state park recently – one that dates back 50 years.  When Joe Fresetta spotted a bottle on the ground at Fowlers Hollow State Park in Pennsylvania’s Perry County, he assumed it was trash, he told NBC affiliate WGAL8 News. He found a message in a bottle containing several faded pieces…

Performing acts of kindness may ease anxiety and depression symptoms and promote well-being, a new study found. Experts explain the advantages of healing by helping others.

A heart-wrenching post from the owner’s daughter has brought former regulars and new customers pouring into the 20-year-old family business.

“John Gladwell is my hero,” Philadelphia Eagles fan Billy Welsh told TODAY about Gladwell, a Kansas City Chiefs fan and an old military friend who donated the kidney that saved his life.

A San Francisco Animal Care and Control officer managed to rescue a puppy who was found trapped under a large pile of rocks at Ocean Beach.

Josiah Vargas says he was picking up his Sausage McMuffin sandwich when he realized that the employee at the window had given him more than he ordered.

The child had dropped the doll while she was waiting for the school bus.

An adorable 1-year-old pup whose New Jersey owner allegedly tied her up outside an airport 1,000 miles from home — and then left her there as he flew back to the East Coast — has been adopted by a family who spotted her the same day she was abandoned, the animal rescue group that took her in announced Thursday. The…

The pastor for a New Jersey couple was in the middle of delivering the wedding vows when he collapsed at the altar, going into cardiac arrest — but thankfully a caterer for the wedding was also an EMT, and worked on him for a half-hour by herself to help save his life.

Dr. Steven Lome had an emotional reunion with two fellow runners whose lives he helped save with CPR when they collapsed at a half marathon last month.

Travel nurse Antoinette Smith, her husband and 6-year-old grandson found themselves stranded at San Francisco International Airport on Christmas Eve, staring down the likelihood of sleeping on the airport floor for the next few nights.

How did a massive oil tanker heading from Amsterdam to New York stumble upon the battered sailboat lost at sea, carrying the two friends from Cape May, New Jersey, and Minnie the poodle — all of whom were on the brink of death?

A suburban Chicago taco shop went viral after the owner’s daughter posted a message asking for customers for her mom for Christmas — and TikTokers delivered in a big way.

If there is a such thing as an ordinary heart transplant, this was not it. It marked the first time an HIV positive patient received a heart from an HIV positive donor.

On Sunday, more than 600 volunteers packed 103,175 meals. The non-profit U.S. Hunger, in partnership with the Ismaili CIVIC, helped coordinate the event at the Ismaili Jamatkhana in Plano.

Are healthy living and exercise the tickets to a long life? Maybe, but for one New York City woman, she says the key is much simpler — and much more enjoyable.

First responders in White Lake Township, Michigan, threw a one-of-a-kind parade for a 3-year-old fighting lymphatic leukemia.

“I was raised to know that if it’s not yours, you don’t keep it,” said JoAnn Oliver, who has been caring for her husband with terminal cancer.

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