Mom didn't have much time left. So this couple changed wedding plans. (Tissue warning!)

A customer walked into his pizza shop and changed Philadelphia with $1 and a single Post-it note.

Man desperately trying to get out of the cold dies on stairs in front of homeless shelter

As sub-zero temps swept into much of the country, Kenneth Winfield made his way to a Louisville homeless shelter in November:

"He started crying," recalled Maria Price, executive director of the day shelter. "He said, 'Please help me find an apartment. I don't want to die out there.' "
He returned again last week, but was apparently too late:

Winfield was found on the steps of the St. John Center amid sub-zero temperatures Thursday night and later died, Price said.
An autopsy is being conducted to determine the cause of death. Although Winfield had been living on the streets for years, he'd been trying to find a place to live:

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North Carolina frees innocent man after spending half his life in jail

After DNA testing on the contents of a long-forgotten envelope opened another path to innocence, a 70-year-old African American prisoner who has lived behind bars in North Carolina for more than 36 years was cleared on Friday of the double murder for which he was convicted.

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A Teacher Tells A Story About A Boy In Her Class. It Has A Beginning, A Middle, And No End.

"This is a boy who is trying to learn how to carry the one while his life is in upheaval."

"I'M NOT A BUM, I'M A HUMAN BEING

The Navy ‘Hero’ Who Pimped an HIV+ Teen

On paper, Jeffrey Chadwick Wright was a good sailor, a recipient of the National Defense Medal and the Humanitarian Service Medal. M.L. Nestel reports that Wright led a seedy double life, turning a teen girl into a hooker—then enlisting his mother to cover up the evidence.

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New restaurant staffed with deaf waiters

They Put Her In Solitary Confinement For 7 Months. Before That, She Was In A Prison Full Of Men.

At 16, Johanna Sanchez was brutally raped by several men in a field in El Salvador.

One of the men said to her, "Faggot, isn't this what you like?"

Johanna decided she had to get out of El Salvador to escape danger, so she ran away to the United States, "where she heard life for women like her would be better."

Why was Johanna's life in danger? And why did the man call her a homophobic slur?

How Ferguson showed us the truth about police

More Homeless Children Now Than Any Point in US History

A new report on child homelessness in America finds that 2.5 million children experience homelessness annually.

First grader left hungry by lunch lady over account balance: ”Guess what, you can’t have a lunch’

arents of a first grader attending school in Snohomish, Washington want answers after an elementary school cafeteria worker denied their son his school lunch program meal, telling him, “Guess what, you can’t have a lunch,” reports Fox 13.

According to the 7-year-old, identified as Xavier, the lunch lady was passing out bag lunches to students at Cascade View Elementary on October 20, when she refused to give him his lunch.

“It was a sack lunch. It was in a bag, she was passing it around to everybody. The lunch lady said, ‘Guess what, you can’t have a lunch.’ She said that. She said I can’t have a lunch,” said Xavier.

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Woman Survives 45 Minutes With No Pulse

A Florida woman is at home and looking after her new infant less than month after she survived without a pulse for 45 minutes following complications from a routine Caesarean section. A team of medical workers spent three hours attempting to revive 40-year-old Rudy Graupera-Cassimiro after a rare amniotic fluid embolism. Doctors were preparing to announce her death when a blip on a monitor indicated a heartbeat. “She essentially spontaneously resuscitated when we were about to call the time of death,” said Thomas Chakurda, a spokesman for Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Graupera-Cassimiro gave birth to a healthy daughter and suffered no brain damage from the ordeal.

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Heroic Navy Diver Sacrificed His Life

Though their superiors made poor choices that ultimately proved fatal, Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Harris made the heroic decision to stay with his trapped fellow diver rather than let him die alone under water. Harris and Petty Officer 1st Class James Reyher both died on February 26, 2013 during a training dive at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The Navy's investigation into their deaths revealed that the fatal accidents were a result of weak leadership on the part of their superiors combined with a series of bad decisions, including doing a dive where there was poor visibility and conducting a training exercise when there was “insufficient air capacity.” Reyher became tangled in the shoddy equipment underground, but Harris refused to cut the line connecting them and swim to the top. Instead, “Harris exhausted himself in an attempt to save Reyher,” the investigator stated. “Both divers resisted the natural instincts of self-preservation, in order to expel his last breaths in an effort to save each other.

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14.5-Pound Baby, Born In Massachusetts

Meet Carisa Ruscak, the second-biggest baby ever born at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Carisa came into the world on Tuesday, weighing 14.5 pounds -- nearly double the size of the average American newborn.

"Everyone in the operating room was like, ‘Oh my God, look at the size of this baby! Let’s get her on the scale, what does she weigh?’” mom Caroline told WHDH.

"It validated me because I was in a lot of pain when I was pregnant, so to hear the size, it made sense," she told WCVB.

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What If You Stick A Gay Person And An Anti-Gay Straight Person In A Room And Ask Them To Hug?

Giraffe Shares Touching Goodbye With Dying Zoo Worker

A dying cancer patient who worked at a Dutch zoo returned to say goodbye on Wednesday. Lying in a hospital bed placed in the giraffe habitat at Rotterdam's Diergaarde Blijdorp, the 54-year-old man, identified as only Mario, waited for the animals to approach.

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110 People Found in Stash House

Authorities raided a house in southeast Houston on Wednesday, believing a woman and her children were held there. Instead, they found 110 people imprisoned in a “stash house.” The people, presumed to be in the country illegally, were locked in the house by smugglers until they could pay for their freedom. A tipster told authorities he was being extorted by these men over relatives from Central America. Three suspected smugglers were arrested when they tried to run. The prisoners were forced to sit on each others’ laps, they were hungry and thirsty.

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Ralph Waite Dead: 'The Waltons' Patriarch Dies At 85

Ralph Waite, who played the kind-and-steady patriarch of a tight-knit rural Southern family on the TV series "The Waltons," died Thursday, his manager said. He was 85.

Waite, who lived in the Palm Springs area, died at midday, manager Alan Mills said. Mills, who did not know the cause of death, said he was taken aback because Waite had been in good health and still working.

Waite appeared last year in episodes of the series "NCIS," in which he played the dad of star Mark Harmon's character. He also appeared in "Bones" and "Days of Our Lives."

"The Waltons," which aired on CBS from 1972 to 1981, starred Waite as John Walton, and Richard Thomas played his oldest son, John-Boy, an aspiring novelist. The gentle family drama was set in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia.

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16-Pound Baby Born In California Is One Of The Largest In History

My cootch hurts!

There must be something in the water in California.

Just one week after a Southern California baby was named one of the largest ever born in the state, a Northern California baby has come forward to steal the title.

When Sosefina Tagalu of Daly City, Calif. delivered Sammisano Joshua Talai Otuhiva in August 2013, she had no idea he might be the biggest baby ever born in the state.

"Everyone was guessing before we weighed him," said Tagalu to The Huffington Post. "The nurses were guessing 10 or 11 pounds and the doctor guessed 14."

The result when they put him on the scale: a whopping 16 pounds, 1.7 ounces.

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