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Update: Boy thrown from Mall of America balcony leaves intensive care

Things looked bad for little Landen Hoffman when he fell almost 40-feet to the ground after being thrown by 24-year-old Emmanuel Aranda in an unprovoked attack on April 12. The 5-year-old boy suffered severe head injuries and broken ...

Frugal carpenter saved $3 million to send 33 strangers to college

Years before Kira had even begun to think about college, that man, Dale Schroeder, visited his lawyer. The frugal carpenter from Iowa said he never had the opportunity to attend college and wanted to help others ...

Chick-fil-A manager jumps up to change flat tire for elderly veteran customer

Daryl Howard has been a manager at the Chick-fil-A in Severn, Maryland for about nine years. He was working the counter on Thursday—but suddenly he took on a responsibility that wasn’t in the job description. That ...

Five Guys staff sees a customer too weak to order—so they feed him a free meal

It was late June, at the Five Guys in Detroit’s Greektown neighborhood. Justin Hollon, the franchise’s general manager, saw a familiar face at the burger joint: a man named Leonard. But he noticed that the customer ...

Mom sends autistic son on flight with a note, when the flight lands she receive a text from her son’s seatmate

“I was feeling anxious and [Landon] was super excited to get to his dad and cousins,” Alexa told Bored Panda. “I was more worried about missing him than how HE would do on the plane. ...

Kindhearted woman picks up dinner tab for 11 teenagers on their way to prom

Therese de Leon and 10 of her friends barely had a chance to look at their menus at Ted’s Bulletin when their waiter approached them. Their server, Antonio, explained there was a usual customer in the ...

Church pays off $2.2 million in medical debt for 1,600 families in Kansas

This year, Pathway Church, a church in Wichita, Kansas, decided to forgo their usual advertisements about their Easter services. In place of sending out flyers advertising Easter weekend services, Pathway Church mailed a different type ...

Man asks widowed elderly woman to share a meal with him and his friends

In a Facebook post, Howard shared that he and two friends were out to eat at a restaurant in Oxford, Alabama when the trio noticed an elderly woman dining by herself. He thought about her ...

Man buys Chick-fil-A for two soldiers. When 9 more show up, he immediately pays for theirs too

Jonathan and Stephen Full had taken their kids to Chick-fil-A when they saw two military members enter the restaurant. No sooner had they got through the door than did Jonathan stand up. He told WTVD: “It’s ...

Police officer protects injured dog with own jacket until help arrives – help us pay tribute

I would like to take a moment to personally thank Deputy Sheriff Josh Fiorelli for going above and beyond the call of… Posted by Russ Gibson on Sunday, December 16, 2018 It was a cold day ...