Everyday people making an extraordinary difference in their local communities.
Community Heroes
Vanessa Antonino lost her chihuahua, Flor, twelve years ago in Chicago. This week, a storm just over the state line in Gary, Indiana turned up a scared, wandering dog -- and an outdated microchip that a volunteer group refused to give up on.
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A species declared extinct in the wild in 1991 has officially been upgraded to "endangered" after conservationists in Australia released 100 genetically rescued eastern barred bandicoots onto Phillip Island near Melbourne this past April — the largest reintroduction of the species ever att
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After watching a neighbor lose thousands to a scammer, Las Vegas teenager Ishan Abraham built a free nonprofit, TechBud, to protect seniors from scams — and it's already helped over 3,000 people.
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Roy Harrington has spent 15 years coordinating free wheelchair ramp builds across Texas — over 1,200 in the Brazos Valley alone. He built one for a woman so she could sit on her porch again. Weeks later, it was how she escaped a house fire.
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A four-year-old boy sat alone in an Omaha hospital, hours from heart surgery, with no family beside him. His anesthesiologist, Dr. Amy Beethe, couldn't stop thinking about him — so she adopted him, then found loving homes for all five of his siblings too.
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Dave Whitlow, 73, isn't a doctor or a nurse — but for eight years he's shown up twice a week to hold the tiniest, sickest babies in the NICU at Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU. Every time he sets one down, he whispers the same three words: grow strong, grow smart, grow kind.
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A boat crash threw four people into Montana's Yellowstone River — and left one man being swept downstream. Fourteen-year-old Jory Thomas wasn't a lifeguard or a first responder; he was a ranch kid with a rope, and he caught the man on his first throw.
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A 14-year-old on a bike spotted 75-year-old Theresa Morgan wandering alone in 103-degree heat in Gilbert, Arizona. Royal Cothrun walked her into the shade, helped her remember her son's phone number, and stayed with her until help arrived.
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A deputy in Covington, Tennessee kept seeing the same boys mowing lawns in the July heat with a weed eater that wouldn't hold a charge — so he asked his town to help, and Covington delivered a riding mower, new gear, and coolers of ice cream to their door.