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Texas airport falls silent as Vietnam war pilot’s remains return home on flight flown by his son

On August 8, Dallas Love Field fell silent, something that doesn’t happen very often at an airport. Jackson Proskow, the Washington Bureau Chief at Global News, was at the airport that day and witnessed the emotional moment ...

How Robin Williams saved a grieving widow’s life after her husband’s suicide

It was no secret that Robin struggled with depression and had fought alcohol and drug abuse. Tests on the actor’s body revealed he had Lewy body, one of the most common causes of dementia. After ...

Ron Howard’s son is all grown up and he looks like a real-life Richie Cunningham

Away from the big screen, Howard married his teenage sweetheart, Cheryl in 1975. In 1981, the couple welcomed their first daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, to the world. Ron and Cheryl would go on to have ...

Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter found dead

Saoirse Kennedy cause of death Saoirse Kennedy Hill was at the compound (where her grandmother Ethel Kennedy lives) when first responders were called on Thursday afternoon, the New York Times reports. When emergency personnel arrived ...

Woman celebrates 107th birthday, and gives her secret for a long life: don’t get married

Louise Signore turned 107 on July 30. Born way back in 1912, she’s a lifelong New Yorker and has lived in the Bronx since she was 14. She is now a resident of the JASA Bartow ...

Army veteran sees the hunger problem in his community, so he sets up a food bank on his lawn

Army veteran Roman Espinoza spent 25 years serving in the military. When he got out, he decided to go back to school, enrolling in Jefferson Community College in Watertown, New York. In 2017, research for ...

Twin babies found dead after father leaves them in hot car for eight hours

Juan Rodriguez, 39, is a disabled Iraq war veteran and social worker for homeless veterans at a Bronx hospital. By all accounts he has always been a committed, doting father to his five children. But ...

Convicted murderer, 77, guilty of eerily similar crime years after judge said he was too old to be a threat

Several weeks before Albert Flick murdered Sandra Flick in January 1979, Sandra served him with divorce papers. She wanted him to collect his belongings and when he stopped by he stabbed her multiple times. “I ...

NJ judge resigns after nationwide backlash for showing leniency to rape suspect ‘from a good family’

Troiano, who retired eight years ago, but was recently recalled to work until 2021, was accused of being too lenient when in 2018 he ruled that a 16-year-old boy accused of raping a teenage girl ...

High school students give silent standing ovation for classmate with ‘severe autism’

When it came time for Jack Higgins, 21, to graduate Carmel High School in Carmel, New York, his parents wanted him to attend. They already knew he probably wouldn’t hit other milestones like graduating college ...