If you haven't watched the short film 'Caine's Arcade' yet, we highly suggest that you do. It's about a nine-year -old named Caine Monroy who built a crazy innovative video arcade using mostly cardboard boxes. It's also about the internet bringing people together to recognize something that is really cool, and wouldn't have been recognized otherwise.
Nothing irks us more as writers than thinking up a great idea and forgetting it because we didn't commit it to paper. This very lucky writer ain't got nothing on us.
Jacob French is a real life Stormtrooper. He's a member of the 501st Legion, a volunteer organization whose members wear the iconic white armor to Star Wars-related events. But unlike the Stormtroopers in the world George Lucas created, these soldiers are the good guys, and the events they show up at are often for charity.
13-year-old Jeremy Wuitschick got to drive, something most kids his age only dream about doing. However, the circumstances in which the seventh-grader took the wheel were far from ideal.
When one thinks of teenagers descending on a warm locale for spring break, heroic deeds isn't the first thing that comes to mind. But instead of making fools of themselves during their trip down to Florida, Cody Decker and Luke Vaughn saved two lives.
Detroit woman Texana Hollis was evicted from the home her late husband bought over 60 years ago last September when her son failed to pay property taxes linked to a reserve mortgage.
Two days after she was kicked to the curve, HUD, the federal agency who did the kicking, reversed course and decided the 101-year-old could move her stuff back into her home. The only problem was the house had been condemned in her absence, and now nobody was allowed to live in it.
In a touching show of charity, five firefighters who won $10,000 in the Mega Millions lottery will donate a portion of their winnings to help a fellow firefighter stricken with a rare and aggressive brain tumor.
A video of a man wearing an awesome Batman suit whose black Lamborghini was pulled over in Maryland for not having proper tags went viral last week. And why wouldn't it?
Well, it turns out the man behind the mask isn't really Bruce Wayne, despite having a couple hundred grand to blow on a fine Italian sports cars. But Lenny B. Robinson, a 48-year-old businessman from Baltimore County, is a hero in his own right.
In one of the most poignant ways of honoring a fallen comrade we've ever seen, former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell recently went to a Newtown, CT, pub and offered to pay the owner enough money to buy a random person a pint of Guinness every hour for the entire day.
As further proof that teachers don't get paid nearly enough, a heroic elementary school teacher recently rescued a toddler from a SUV that had caught fire in the pickup lane at Cameron Ranch Elementary School in Carmichael, CA.