A taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who earlier had given him a 30-cent tip on an $11 ride.
Hours after Osman Chowdhury dropped off the passenger, he tracked her down through a flurry of phone calls and returned the bag, which she had left in the taxi’s trunk.
The [...]

A Thai mother who was lost for 25 years after catching the wrong bus home has spoken of her ordeal after being reunited with her family thanks to simple song.
The last time Jaeyaena Beuraheng saw her seven children was in 1982 when she left south Thailand on one of her regular shopping trips across the [...]

It was Tuesday, Dec. 30, 1947 and we were all at Temple Beth Jacob on Creek Drive in Menlo Park. Rabbi Goldstein had come from San Francisco.
We were all on time: the bride, the groom, rabbi and guests. Unfortunately the shammes [synagogue helper] with whom we had made the arrangements had neglected to either open [...]

Over a block of ice, in subzero cold, David Kaiser’s heart melted.
It was a year ago Saturday, during the Waukesha JanBoree’s ice carving contest, that Kaiser used his pitiful track record as an ice chiseler to really break the ice.
Where it counted. With Kate Campbell. The two met over last year’s ice sculpting contest in [...]

Three and a half years ago West Linn resident Jan Hunt began a new beauty regimen – not cutting her long hair.
The reason?
Hunt – a second-grade teacher at Sexton Mountain Elementary School in Beaverton – says a former first-grade student inspired her to grow her hair long so that she could then donate her lengthy [...]