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To me, the reason why negative news get so much attention is because of how much of it that there is to say anything about. In order for good things to be talked about, those good things have to happen first.Thanks, too bad most would rather be negative.
Yes. If you come across a good story, please post it. Maybe we can get something started. Too much negative news getting all the attention.
Thank you for your input, but I said in the OP, "Nothing controversial or political."
I would appreciate it if you could adhere to that request. Surely there are enough threads here to discuss gun control w/o spoiling this one with controversy.
^^^ Thank you for sharing that! I love stories like that!
God bless you and that man and woman always!!!
Holly
P.S. I dropped my billfold at my local K-Mart on Christmas Eve several years ago and whoever found it turned it in and when I got it back, all of my money was still in there!
You know.....................EVERYONE should know about the good news that happened in Atlanta over the past week. It seems that there were a lot of people who were stranded due to the way that the city planners handled the storm, but even so, when the crap hit the fan and people didn't have a way home, not only did private citizens open up their homes to those they didn't know, but many businesses said they would gladly put people up until they could return to their homes.
Kudos (and much good Karma) to the lady that put up the SnowedOutAtlanta Facebook page that helped people connect with those willing to help out. They even helped to save a pregnant woman and her child.
Facebook helps good Samaritan rescue pregnant woman in freezing Atlanta storm - NBC News.com
Yanno...................just about the time that I start to become disenchanted with the human race because of the political divides and all the other crap we do to one another, a story like this comes out and renews my faith in my fellow human beings.
It also happened during the California wildfires a couple of years back, and also happens any time that some catastrophe comes along like Hurricane Sandy.
Yep, given the chance in desperate circumstances, fortunately, most people will do the right thing and help out others.
BTW.................one of the main reasons that I give money to people standing on freeway off ramps or on corners with signs saying that they're hungry, is because I know that even if they buy something other than food, I've made their life a wee bit better for that day, and that gives me good feelings all over.
I have enough, and a little extra that I can share. I like to share. I wish more people felt like that.
Woman Charged with Kidnapping after Missing Wisconsin Baby Found in Iowa Gas Station
Federal kidnapping charges have been filed against a Denver woman in the case of a missing 6-day-old boy who disappeared in the middle of the night from his Wisconsin home.
The woman, Kristin Smith, could face life in prison if convicted of snatching her half-sister's newborn, Kayden Powell.
U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil filed the charge against Smith on Friday afternoon, hours after the child was found alive near an Iowa gas station half a mile from where Smith was arrested.
Police recovered Kayden around 10:15 a.m. Friday, just a day after he disappeared from his home in Beloit, Wisc., while his parents and other family members were in the house.
"Despite frigid temperatures, Kayden was found alive and appears to be doing very well," Beloit Chief of Police Steve Kopp said in a statement. "In the words of the EMS officials, he is in 'excellent' health."
Police say Smith was at the house the night Kayden disappeared, but left the house around 1:30 a.m. without explanation to drive back to Colorado where she lives.
Kayden's mother, Brianna Marshall, 18, told authorities Thursday that she woke up around 4:30 a.m. to find her son gone, missing from his bassinet in the same room where she slept.
Investigators said there were no signs of a break-in at the home, and the parents were cooperative. The baby's father, Bruce Powell, 23, and two other people were also staying in the house, including Kristen Smith, police said.
Authorities were able to reach Smith on her cellphone, and she pulled off the highway in Iowa. Police arrested Smith at a convenience store along the highway on an outstanding fraud warrant from Texas. They found baby clothes, a fake pregnancy belly and a stroller in the woman's car, but not the baby. FBI agents then went to Iowa to question Smith.
The boy was found when the police chief of West Branch, Iowa, heard the baby crying, the Associated Press reported. The chief, who had been checking sites along Interstate 80 along with other officers, located the infant's cries and found the boy wrapped in blankets inside a bag.
Before Kayden was discovered, federal, state and local police combined forces to launch a massive search that included checking dumpsters, police said.
Kayden's maternal grandmother, Tracy Bennett, told ABC News affiliate WLS-TV on Thursday that Smith had spoken to her about moving the family to Colorado.
