Natalie Crowe was a bored teenager during the summer of 2012 when she stumbled across her mother's old address book in a storage bin and decided to search for a specific name. The first person to pop into her head was Austin Tatman, who was her best friend when they were 5 years old. The two had lost touch after she moved from Florida to Connecticut with her mother and siblings.

Some people who saw Paul and Kris Scharoun-DeForge from a distance felt pity for them. Others discouraged them from getting married. But the couple, both of whom were born with Down syndrome, believed they were the luckiest people in the world. In fact, their family believes they might have had one of the longest marriages of any couple with Down syndrome. And one of the happiest marriages of anyone — with Down syndrome or without.

Cooper Baltzell bonded with Gregory Watson during walks to the hospital popcorn machine. Some little boys model superheroes. Cooper Baltzell prefers a real-life hero. Four-year-old Cooper pushes a toy mop while imitating Gregory Watson, the janitor who cleaned his room at University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital.

Missing the school bus leads to the "best birthday ever" as US police come through for bullied 9-year-old.

Rangers at a national park in northeastern Thailand have rescued six baby elephants that were trapped in a mud pit. Park officials said the elephants were unable to climb up the pit’s slippery banks. Rescuers took five hours on Thursday to dig a path for them to clamber out. A video taken by rangers at Thap Lan National Park in Nakhon Ratchasima province shows the baby elephants climbing one by one from the muddy ditch.

A Georgia man in Florida for spring break went against the grain last week by picking up after hundreds of rowdy fellow college students — and the good deed quickly went viral. Joshua Caraway, 19, a freshman at the University of West Georgia, told news outlets he had come to Miami Beach on vacation with his friends, but that was no excuse to leave the place worse than he had found it.

A 104-year-old woman has been granted her "greatest wish" — to be arrested by the police. Anne Brokenbrow was handcuffed at her residential care home in Bristol, in south-west England, and smiled as she was charged with being "an upstanding citizen". The centenarian was then ushered into a waiting police car and driven away with the sirens and blue lights blazing.

An 8-year-old living in a homeless shelter has won the New York State chess championship for his age bracket. “I want to be the youngest grandmaster,” Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a Nigerian refugee who goes by Tani, told The New York Times. Tanitoluwa placed first in the New York State Scholastic Championships tournament for kindergarten through third grade — a remarkable win for anyone.

Billy's Donuts has now gone viral thanks to a caring son's social media post. Social media has served as a facilitator for small doughnut shops to draw big crowds on multiple occasions. Last fall, a hole in the wall cafe in Seal Beach, California, began to sell out early every morning when a note to help the owners went viral on Facebook. Earlier this year, a gourmet doughnut maker had even longer lines out the door when patrons discovered he prevailed after a near-death experience.

A nursing student who left a car dealership in tears because she couldn’t afford a vehicle got the ultimate surprise when a fellow customer offered her his car for free. Kayla Cooper — who works two part-time jobs when she’s not studying nursing — visited the Auto City pre-owned car dealership in El Cajon, California, to look for a new ride in February, she told local ABC affiliate KGTVthis link opens in a new tab.

A McDonald's employee went viral over the weekend—and collectively restored our hope in humanity—after paying for a customer's meal last Friday. Andrea Duncan, who took to Facebook to share the encounter, ordered at the Reading, OH, drive-thru before realizing she had left her wallet behind at work. When Duncan pulled up to the window and tried to cancel the meal, a Mickey D's team member offered to pick up her tab.

When a Kingston, Ont., grocery store left its doors unlocked on the Family Day holiday last month, nothing was stolen and instead customers left cash and IOUs for the Food Basics, the district manager said.

At the far end of Islington Road in Newton, Massachusetts, lives a little girl near and dear to the neighborhood. Two-year-old Samantha Savitz is deaf, but she loves to talk to anyone who knows sign language. "She's super engaging. She wants to chat-up with anybody." said her father, Raphael. "Yea, her whole personality changes when it's someone who can communicate with her," said her mother, Glenda.

World War II veteran Edmund Rusinek turns 92 years old in a few days. To mark that milestone, he treated himself to a rather extravagant gift – the honor of buying some $1,500 worth of meals for military families who happened into the Rossmoor Chick-fil-A last weekend. It wasn’t the first time Rusinek surprised active service people with his largess, nor will it be his last. But it was his most generous.

Heather O’Donnell ordered a few tacos and a quesadilla from the drive-thru at the Taco Bell in Fairmount Sunday, and got a welcome surprise in her bag. "I got this message that said ‘when you reach the end of your rope tie a knot around it and hang on- Franklin D. Roosevelt,,'' she said. “It made me stop in my tracks and smile. Knowing someone took time out of their work or life to write this is another example that there are still good people out there.”

A father taking his son to a concert is one of the ultimate bonding experiences, creating memories that will last forever. Richard McDeid and his son Mason have seen approximately 1,200 bands together, something which gives them both a great deal of enjoyment. It has, in fact, changed the course of their lives together. Mason has cerebral palsy, but that doesn’t diminish the joy he gets from attending shows with his dad.

An 87-year-old woman is counting her blessings after her neighbor's dog found her lying in the snow outside her Minnesota home during last week's dangerous cold snap, CBS Minnesota reports. The alert pooch, named Midnight, came across the woman needing help when the temperature was about one degree below zero. Midnight is Tim Curfman's 4-year-old black Labrador mix. Curfman was taking out the garbage on Jan. 28 when Midnight sensed something was wrong next door.

A stranger who showed a little girl “kindness and compassion” at the airport is now her superstar. On Saturday, Kevin Armentrout, a public speaker in Las Vegas, wrote a Facebook post about a traveler named Joseph Wright, a field sales manager at Samsung in Oklahoma, who took joy in entertaining his 16-month-old daughter, Carter Jean, at the airport.

A young boy has been reunited with his beloved teddy bear after a social media post sparked a nationwide hunt. Four-year-old Atticus lost his beloved cuddly bear Boeuf last Friday after a hospital appointment to prepare him for radiotherapy. His mum Emily Feduchin-Pate posted a heartfelt appeal on Facebook in a desperate attempt to reunite her terminally ill son with his beloved bear.

A farmer who became too upset when taking his lambs to the abattoir gave his flock to an animal sanctuary. Sivalingam Vasanthakumar, from Totnes, Devon, took the 20 male lambs nearly 200 miles (321km) to Goodheart Animal Sanctuaries, near Kidderminster. Mr Vasanthakumar, a farmer for 47 years, said: "I just couldn't cope any more and I had to say no." The sanctuary said the "lucky" lambs would have fetched about £9,000 if they had been sold.