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Byline: Cathy Free Scott Legried was driving to pick up some gravel in the small farming community of Frost, Minn., in mid-August when a German shepherd puppy ran into the [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Hongjian Duan and Zhenyu Yang wanted to get married for over two years, ever since they began dating in their home province of Chongqing, China. 'We've been [...]

Byline: Cathy Free The city of Andernach, Germany, planted 101 varieties of tomatoes in the town center and told everyone to pluck and take whatever they wanted. It was such [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Ronal Bassham wishes he could look back fondly on his 22-year Air Force career as a ground crewman. 'I'm proud of my service, but I am not [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Marcia Noel was devoted to her two dogs, Ernesto and Roger, and the feeling was mutual. The miniature pinschers slept with her, played fetch and cuddled with [...]

Byline: Cathy Free At the end of her freshman year at the University of Tampa in May, Kira Rumfola packed her bags and headed to the airport with her favorite [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Ray Ruschel was standing in line to get his uniform after making the football team this summer at North Dakota State College of Science when he noticed [...]

Byline: Cathy Free The only people at school who knew the truth about Jeremiah Armstead's home life were his basketball coaches. Armstead, 18, was tired a lot, sometimes from sleeping [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Joseph Henney's emotional support animal WallyGator goes with him almost everywhere, from the grocery store to walks in the park. They hug each other and sleep in [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Identical twins Brittany and Briana Deane were inseparable as girls growing up in Delaware. Their lives were so intertwined, in fact, that they hoped to one day [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Brayden Nadeau was 2 when he helped his grandpa steer a John Deere tractor, and he was 3 when he helped feed the hogs and chickens on [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Adele Larson Stoneberg tried on a white satin wedding gown at Marshall Field's department store in downtown Chicago and decided the gown, which cost $100, was the [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Ainsley Muller, 11, went to art camp and theater camp in summers past. This summer, she was presented an opportunity she couldn't refuse: Learning how to use [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Gerry Keene was 500 feet underground on a cave exploration adventure in Missouri when his headlamp shone on something he'd never seen this deep in a cave: [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Brian Standefer was 10 years old in 1995, when he and three friends decided to write a note on a piece of cardboard, roll it up inside [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Naliyah Rueckert went through a hard time after her parents split up. But at age 13 she found an outlet for her anger in an unlikely place: [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Lori Carlson arrived for work at the Licking County Humane Society one morning to an alarming phone call from a police officer with the Newark, Ohio, animal [...]

Byline: Cathy Free High school senior Dominique Claseman grew up hearing the stories of his father and other family members who served in the U.S. military. 'I wanted them all [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Jake Manna was on a job installing solar panels at a home when he saw a woman frantically run down the street. 'My special-needs daughter is missing! [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Nicholas Bostic was on his way to get gas one night last week around midnight when he saw flames leaping from the front of a two-story house [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Nadia Abdullah was on the hunt for an affordable apartment in the Boston area a few months before she graduated from college. 'It was a little frustrating [...]

Byline: Cathy Free With book bans, heated political debates and a pandemic to deal with, it isn't an easy time to be a librarian. In cities and small towns across [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Maria Carrillo stepped outside the back door of her office to walk her two dogs one evening when she noticed a plastic fast-food bag had been dumped [...]

Byline: Cathy Free As a soldier in World War II, William 'Willie' Kellerman was captured three weeks after he took part in the Utah Beach invasion in Normandy. He managed [...]

Byline: Cathy Free A 10-acre wildfire fueled by dry vegetation and strong winds was racing toward a condominium complex in West Sacramento, Calif., last month when the flames suddenly slowed [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Five days before he was supposed to graduate from California's San Gabriel High School in 1962, Ted Sams was suspended for goofing around in the halls and [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Michele Dugan was in foster care as a child and was eventually adopted with her brother by a couple in Southern California near where she was born. [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Vicky Umodu had just moved into a new house in Southern California to be near her daughter and help care for her grandchildren. She was looking for [...]

Byline: Cathy Free The 22 Asiatic black bears had spent their entire lives locked in small metal cages at a South Korean breeding farm. There, their gallbladders and bile were [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Trinidad Cervantes said she felt humiliated last year on her high school graduation day in Cedar City, Utah, when a teacher pulled her aside at the ceremony [...]

Byline: Cathy Free It wasn't until Jonathan Conyers was an adult that he realized how much his debate coach helped him as a struggling high school student with two parents [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Brittany Davis longed for a big dog, and she had her heart set on one of the largest and lankiest of all: a Great Dane. She got [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Morton 'Mort' Block was smitten with someone he met on the beach in Atlantic City in 1958, but he was worried she might not feel the same [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Edward Morgan was having a relaxing Sunday at his home near Atlanta when a frantic call came in from a beekeeper in Alaska. She had an urgent [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Jeremy Salda and Pam Patterson had been dating for nearly two years, and had plans to get married in Mexico in August. But earlier this week, they [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Kelvin Simmons was sitting in the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta awaiting sentencing on assault charges in September when a surprising offer came in: Would he be [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Three firefighters from Virginia's Fairfax County were close friends after three years of working and living together at Station No. 465 on the Fort Belvoir Army base. [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Merrill Pittman Cooper, 101, had a distinguished career as one of the first Black trolley car drivers in Philadelphia, and a powerful leader in the union. But [...]

Byline: Cathy Free As World War II escalated, Romay Johnson Davis's five brothers enlisted, despite segregation and profuse discrimination both within the armed forces and society as a whole. Davis [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Avi Schiffmann climbed into bed after attending a demonstration in San Diego protesting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but sleep wouldn't come. 'I couldn't stop thinking about what [...]

Byline: Cathy Free From his first day on the job more than a year ago at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York, Grant Llera has felt the [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Security officer Ricardo Castro spends most days on his feet at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where he answers a lot of questions: 'Is this the way [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Since the Russian invasion began in Ukraine, Anna Afanasieva has been heartsick with worry for her parents and sister who live in Odessa, in southern Ukraine. 'I [...]

Byline: Cathy Free The diverse group showed up, one after another, so that when the pews were full, people spilled into the aisles at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Kidney donor Bobby McLaughlin had just joined an online Yahtzee tournament while he was stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, when he received a surprising offer: [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Anthony Alexander Jr. was resting on a park bench after playing basketball with friends when a girl ran up to him crying. 'She screamed, 'Hurry! You've got [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Each Thursday morning, Norma Matthews and her twin sister, Edith Antoncecchi, carefully style their hair and sometimes put on coordinating outfits. Then they catch a lift to [...]