59-Year-Old Linebacker Returns to Field

Mike Flynt waited 37 years to get back on a college football field. Once he did, he was part of his team's winning play.

N.J. Court Opens Door to Gay Marriage

New Jersey's highest court opened the door Wednesday to making the state the second in the nation to allow gay marriage, ruling that lawmakers must offer homosexuals either marriage or something like it, such as civil unions.

Google to Convert HQ to Solar Power

Google Inc. is converting its renowned headquarters to run partly on solar power, hoping to set an example for corporate America.

Ohio Girl Helps Free Bubba the Lobster

A 7-year-old Ohio girl who wanted to set a grocery store lobster free has gotten her wish. What started last month when Myranda Hutchinson won Bubba the lobster in a raffle in Cincinnati ended Saturday when the crustacean found freedom about 1,100 miles away off the coast of Maine.

Philippines Hopes to Set Tree Record

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took part Friday in a massive tree-planting campaign aimed at improving air quality in the Philippines while breaking a world record.

Dog Alerts Residents to Toddler in Danger

A toddler climbed out of a second-story window and scampered across the porch rooftops of at least eight row houses before a family dog's barks alerted residents, police and neighbors said.

Vt. Dairy Farm Harnesses Power of Cow Pies

The cows at the Audet family's Blue Spruce Farm make nearly 9,000 gallons of milk a day — and about 35,000 gallons of manure.

Half-Ton Mexican Man Loses 200 Pounds

Health officials said Manuel Uribe weighed 1,235 pounds when he made a desperate plea for help on national television in January.

Buffett Giving Billions to Gates Charity

The world's second-richest man, Warren Buffett, became one of the world's biggest philanthropists Sunday with the announcement that he would bequeath the bulk of his roughly $44 billion fortune to the foundation established by billionaire Bill Gates and his wife.

Woman Discovers Co-Worker Is Her Mother

Michelle Wetzell, who was adopted when she was 4 days old, wanted to find her birth mother. She didn't know it at the time, but all she had to do was look at the woman sitting behind the receptionist's desk in the hair salon where she worked.

Researchers Work on Alternative Jet Fuel

The spike in oil prices has prompted plenty of drivers to consider biodiesel-powered or hybrid cars for their daily commute, but what about that gas guzzler we use to fly across country?

Idaho Girl Becomes Superhero for a Day

Most days, 6-year-old Aubrey Matthews spends her energy fighting a brain tumor growing behind her eyes. But the first-grader managed to foil crimes and chase an arch-nemesis through Boise on Friday, serving the city as the superhero "Star" with assistance from the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho, The Idaho Statesman reported.

Owner Performs CPR to Save His Dog

When Jack the dog ran into trouble last month, he couldn't have had a better man around to help. Physician Dave Karli and his dog were out for a walk near their home in Edwards while a father and son were playing catch with a baseball nearby.

Man Gives Up Everest Climb for Rescue

Just days after a British climber was left to die near Mount Everest's summit, an American guide abandoned his second bid to stand on top of the world so he could rescue a mountaineer mistakenly given up for dead.

A local radio station hosted a Pink Glove dance event in downtown Albany, NY as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The fund raiser included a two-minute dance number choreographed by a local Arthur Murray Dance Studio.

Last week, a good friend of mine really laid into me. She had been harboring resentment toward me for a long time. I had no clue! Suddenly, she started detailing all of my flaws and faults, like a long grocery list.

The instinct to survive is strong - even at a young age. This story is a truly amazing tale of how an infant managed to stay alive amidst a horrible ordeal:

At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators. Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing.

An unidentified man saved a boy who fell between a train and a platform on Friday, July 31.

My daughter turned 15 two weeks ago. She's been in California visiting her grandparents all month but came home yesterday, finally. I hear so many horror stories about teenagers — how disrespectful, disobedient and disengaged they are.

Nike has a pretty cool program --- they take your worn out shoes and grind them up to make materials for playgrounds and tracks. They take any brand of shoe, but won't accept dress shoes, cleats and those with metal on them.

Excerpt: A cat in China has adopted two orphaned puppies - and is trying to teach them how to catch mice. The female cat - named Tom - nurses the puppies and washes them with her tongue, reports the Yaxin Network.

Excerpt: Giant bullfrog Brullie has hopped into history as the first of his kind to be fitted with a steel pin to repair a broken leg.

Excerpt: Darryl and Dan Culberson were cheapskates before it was cool. And they can prove it. The two brothers have been exchanging the same birthday card since 1973.

Brittiny Peters can only shake her head at what's happened since she and her husband, Gregg, decided to put most of their possessions up for sale on eBay to cover mounting medical bills for two of their children.

Excerpt: Meet the most honest little kid in New York City: Brooklyn's own Kemoy Gourzang. The fifth-grader was walking through East Flatbush on the way to school Friday morning when he found a brown leather wallet on the sidewalk.

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The estate of a New York mortician whose family was one of IBM's earliest investors has bequeathed $75 million to Georgetown University, the school's largest-ever philanthropic gift.

---Video on right side of page.-- MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - What would you do if you found a purse with thousands of dollars inside? Would you keep it or give it back? It was never a question for one Murfreesboro woman.

Led by young Tyrone Stevenson, they create two wheelers from tricked-out scavenged frames, recycled rims, and Oreo cookie wrappers.

Just a tip for waitstaff worldwide: A little courtesy can go a long way. Jessica Osborne was so nice to one set of frequent patrons of the Indiana pizza restaurant where she works that they always requested her as their server.

Times are tough for everyone, human or otherwise. Claudia Hollm knows that while the rest of us can cut back on our spending, our "best friends" still need their kibble.

If giving has always been a part of your holiday season but you're strapped for cash or don't feel very charitable, you're probably not alone. All over the Ozarks, people are stressed and donations are down at nonprofits. But that doesn't mean you have to scrap your holiday cheer.

A 93-year-old veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation has been reunited with war medals after they were recovered by scuba divers from the River Thames.

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Crime in Nottinghamshire has fallen to its lowest level for almost 20 years, according to the latest police figures. The total number of crimes in the county for 2007/08, fell by more than 11,000 to 124,880, the lowest level since 1989.

The men of Company B didn't know what they would face when they entered the Shulla district in northwest Baghdad for the first time last year.

A campaign has been launched to build a permanent memorial to a bear which spent much of its life in Scotland - after fighting in World War II. The bear - named Voytek - was adopted in the Middle East by Polish troops in 1943, becoming much more than a mascot.

The U.S. military has completed building an Iraqi National Police brigade headquarters southeast of Baghdad that officials say will greatly increase the force's legitimacy and effectiveness.