Teen Amputee Inspires at Triathlon
The family of a Florida teen hope a touching photo now going viral will help inspire other amputees to live active lives.
The family of a Florida teen hope a touching photo now going viral will help inspire other amputees to live active lives.
The rescue, however, proved to be a challenging one.
Obama returns to New Orleans to remember Katrina and celebrate city’s recovery.
NEW ORLEANS — The despair uncorked by Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago quickly became a symbol of so much that was wrong with America — stark racial and economic inequality, government’s inaction in the face of enormous social problems, and a deep sense of vulnerability and lack of preparedness for the next disaster.
That dark moment helped propel Barack Obama into the White House because it seemed to reinforce his hopeful argument that the country deserved a better future, and that he embodied that future.
She’s fast, she’s fierce, and she’s inspiring! Drag racer Courtney Force was in town this morning, as a featured honoree for the “Inspiring Women Night: Breaking Barriers in Sports.”
Inspiring Women Night at the Indiana Fever salutes woman who are “Breaking Barriers in Sports”
In cities across the US, police dogs working the crime beat have usually been purebreds, trained in Europe, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars for police departments.
But trainer Brad Croft in San Antonio, Texas, has shown that law enforcement can get the same work for next to nothing by simply turning to the countless future K9s that are on “doggie death row” in US shelters.
“All they need is a chance to prove themselves and these dogs will work every bit as hard as the purebred dogs that we bring in from overseas,” said Croft, the founder of Universal K9.
The man behind the latest YouTube sensation has spoken out for the first time about his global cuddling controversy. Serial hugger Juan Mann describes the free hugs he hands out in Pitt Street Mall as fast-food emotion.
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Undersheriff William Nichols of the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office in New York has been living with leukemia for about 5 years, Today.com reported. When Nichols’ co-worker, Sheriff Timothy Whitcomb visited him in the hospital earlier this month, Whitcomb was inspired to do something to show the department’s love for Nichols.
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