The Red Cross honored two men who rescued a skier out of a life-or-death emergency.
And after John McCartney and Steve Swanson saved the skier, they found out she was McCartney’s wife, Laurie.
John McCartney went to Crystal Mountain with his wife Laurie following 5 new inches of snow. He was a few minutes behind his wife [...]

A lucky bargain hunter became a millionaire after finding an original print of the Declaration of Independence in the frame of an old painting.
Every now and again, one of these “windfall” things turns out to be for real.
In 1989, a Philadelphia financial analyst discovered something unusual in an old picture he’d bought [...]

The day Ahmad Al Halabi, an Air Force translator at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was arrested, he was more puzzled than alarmed.
His focus had been on getting to Syria for his wedding before his non-refundable airline ticket expired. It wasn’t until he had been jailed in a windowless cell and told that he could face the [...]

Many successful organizations are built out of the ashes of a tragic situation. The Violent Trauma Awareness Project (formally The VOW Foundation) is no exception. After a thirteen year career in banking, our Founder , Michelle Renee, and her young daughter were kidnapped and held hostage for nearly fourteen hours by three masked [...]

Lorenzo Odone is 25 years old and lives in Washington. Eighteen years ago he was diagnosed with an incurable disease and given less than two years to live.
His remarkable survival is due to his parents’ single minded refusal to accept the doctors’ grim prognosis.
With no scientific training they took on the medical establishment and set [...]