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3-year-old cancer survivor serves as flower girl in bone marrow donor’s wedding
A toddler who survived cancer honored her bone marrow donor in a special way -- by serving as flower girl in her wedding last month. Skye Savren-McCormick, 3, proudly tossed flowers down the aisle for the bride, 26-year-old Hayden Hatfield Ryals. Skye walked down the aisle wearing a bracelet of pearls inscribed with her name -- a gift from Ryals.
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Anonymous person buys $1M worth of remaining toys at Toys 'R' Us to donate
America’s last remaining Toys “R” Us stores will close for good today, after a final Friday of clearance sales. One Toys “R” Us location in Raleigh, North Carolina, however, has shut its doors a little early — and for good reason — after an anonymous patron purchased $1 million worth of the store’s remaining toys …
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Stranded fox rescued from iceberg by fishermen who fed him Vienna sausages
An Arctic fox generally isn't part of a crab fishing boat's bycatch, but one crew from southern Labrador managed just that last week.
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15-year-old on Alaska AIrlines flight uses sign language to help fellow passenger
A 15-year-old is being widely praised for an act of kindness during a cross-country flight. Clara Daly was traveling with her mother Jane from Boston to Los Angeles on an Alaska Airlines flight earlier this week. During the six-hour flight that included a layover in Portland, Oregon, Clara volunteered her skills in sign language to help a blind and deaf man by forming letters with her fingers while he "read" them with his hands.
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A school worker who devotes her free time to cooking and distributing meals for the homeless gets the surprise of her life
Watch "A school worker who devotes her free time to cooking and distributing meals for the homeless gets the surprise of her life", a CBSN video on CBSNews.com. View more CBSN videos and watch CBSN, a live news stream featuring original CBS News reporting.
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‘I’ll never forget him’: Alaskan husky rescues injured hiker crossing frigid Eagle River along Crow Pass Trail
A 7-year-old Alaskan husky named Nanook is being credited with helping rescue a cold, injured hiker Wednesday night in the Eagle River Valley. "He's Alaska's version of Lassie," said Lt. Eric Olsen with the Alaska State Troopers.
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This 101-year-old Florida man still volunteers for Meals on Wheels
Edward Kydd has traveled 13,332 miles in 1,742 hours of service for Meals on Wheels. The Rockledge, Fla., man drives two routes every Monday, accompanied by his traveling companion — his 73-year-old daughter, Janet von Berg. Kydd is 101, by the way.
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7-Year-Old Breaks Down in Tears as She Meets Bone Marrow Donor Who Saved Her Life
A 7-year-old was overcome with emotion when she met the man who donated his bone marrow to save her life. Adriana Aviles, of Utah, was 4 when she was diagnosed with leukemia. Three years later she got the chance to meet 29-year-old Mike Laureano. In a video shared by Caters news, Adriana is seen breaking down in tears at the sight of Laureano and hugs him tightly while saying, "Thank you so much."
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This special ed teacher promised to one day donate $1M to her students. She wasn't kidding
About 10 years ago, Superintendent Emanuele Triggiano remembers laughing when a retired teacher told him that she was going to donate a million dollars. “I thought it was a joke,” said Triaggiano. “But then we got the paperwork.” Genevieve Via Cava, a special educator teacher for the Dumont school district, had amassed a small fortune throughout her life. When she passed away in 2011, she left her savings to help some of the people who meant the most to her: her special education students.
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Girl, 6, Raises Money to Buy Dolls for Sick Kids in Hospital
The mother of 6-year-old Brinley Williams said her daughter finally raised enough after months of planning to give back to St. Francis Children’s Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kristen Williams, of Hugo, Oklahoma, told NBC News that her daughter, who has dealt with kidney issues since she was born, had to spend a number of days in the hospital in July of 2017, raised money to buy 15 American Girl dolls.
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Toddler, 3, makes life-saving 911 call after mother collapses
Most toddlers are learning how to write or count. Thankfully, one Texas 3-year-old learned how to call 911. Dorothy Craig, of Cleveland, Texas, may very well have saved her mother’s life — or her siblings’ lives — on Wednesday when she collapsed and fell unconscious on the floor, according to Houston ABC station KTRK. That’s when Dorothy, not even old enough to go to school, sprang into action. The youngster picked up a phone and immediately called 911.
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'Spiderman' granted French citizenship after rescuing child from Paris balcony
A young Malian migrant who rescued a child dangling from a balcony will be made a French citizen and has been offered a job by the Paris fire brigade, the office of the French presidency said. Video of the rescue showed 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama climbing up four floors of the apartment building in just seconds to rescue the child, to cheers from onlookers. By the time Parisian emergency services arrived at the building, he had already pulled the child to safety.
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Anonymous donor gives $10,000 to pay Westbrook student lunch debts
Westbrook Superintendent Peter Lancia was in the middle of a TV interview Monday about student lunch debt in his district when the email arrived. The message from an anonymous donor said she wanted to help with families’ unpaid accounts. Later Monday morning, she sent a $10,000 check to the superintendent’s office. That would erase more than half of the debt students have accrued in Westbrook this year.
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A dog that transformed a 104-year-old's life
Milt Lessner has "always had dogs" throughout his life - and he's 104 years old, he tells writer Jen Reeder. So are dogs the secret to longevity? "I'd like to think so," he says. "I enjoy the familiarity with them, and the pleasantness, and the bonding - especially the bonding."
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While out for a jog, she discovered a baby buried alive. Twenty years later, they reunite
In 1998, a jogger found a newborn baby buried alive in the foothills of Altadena, his umbilical cord still attached. The baby, not more than a few hours old, hovered near death. For decades, Azita Milanian would wonder what happened to the boy after he recovered at a Pasadena hospital and was put up for adoption. This week, 20 years to the date of when she found him, the two were reunited.
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What they thought was a rusty box in their backyard was a safe with $52,000 worth of treasure
For years Matthew and Maria Colonna Emmanuel thought a piece of rusty metal behind some trees in their backyard was just part of a cable or electrical box.
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92-year-old graduate: You can make it, if you try
A 92-year-old woman from South Carolina proves you are never too old to reach your goals. Annie Dillard is donning her cap and gown, ready to graduate from Midlands Technical College with an Associate's Degree in Liberal Arts. Dillard is a widow, a mother of one, and the owner of her own hair salon. She earned a bachelor's degree in the 1960s. Then, five years ago, she started searching for something more, and decided to enroll at Midlands Tech.
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Mother told her child would die from cancer by the age of 2
A girl diagnosed with Leukaemia has miraculously made it to her sixth birthday after she was told she would die by the age of two. Mother Renee Nel moved her family of four from a rural farm in South Africa to Australia when her 14-month-old girl Linke was diagnosed with Leukaemia. She emailed 130 doctors around the world and her only response, 24-hours later, came from Dr Luciano Dalla-Pozza at Westmead Hospital, in Sydney's West, according to Weekend Today.
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An American Airlines Passenger Was Stuck Next to a 'Screaming and Kicking' Toddler. His Stunning Reaction Went Viral
Imagine your happy place. Now, imagine that in order to get to your happy place, you first have to sit next to a screaming toddler in economy on American Airlines for a few hours. We've seen this kind of thing happen a lot lately--with bad results and viral videos. There's the New York state employee who reportedly yelled at a baby on a Delta flight and lost her job (at least temporarily) as a result. There's the flight attendant who simply kicked a passenger and a fussy toddler off a plane.
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He needed a kidney. A classmate from 50 years ago whom he barely knew answered the call
Charlie Ball and Kenneth Walker went to school together more than 50 years ago and now live on opposite coasts. But despite the time and distance between them, the two are now sharing more than high school memories. Walker and Ball are alumni of Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. Even though they both graduated in 1969, the two never really spoke to one another. But when Walker sent out an email last year to his old classmates asking for a kidney, Ball said he recognized the name.
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