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There is ample media attention to the bad, ugly, perverted, and the horrific. Today's Good News was started to let people know that in the midst of the negative news there is also good news. News about people helping people, amazing escapes from tragedies, miraculous rescues, and even supernatural verified healings. It is our goal to inspire our readers and to give them hope in these troubled times.
It should be noted that Today's Good News is not about “prettying” up the bad news. Often the positive and negative go hand in hand in a news story.
Also, the reality is that the world is not getting better, but worse.
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Felicia Lettieri, who's 72, left her purse in a Manhattan taxi on Christmas Eve. It contained traveling money for her and six relatives.
Police told them not to get their hopes up about finding it.
The cabbie drove about 50 miles, to a Long Island address he'd found in the purse. No one was home, so he left his phone number and later returned with the money.
Lettieri's daughter, Maria Rosaria Falonga, told Newsday from Pompei, Italy, that the cabbie also left a note.
He told her: "Don't worry, Felicia. ... I'll keep it safe."
"When I was 5 years old, my mother told me, 'Be honest, work hard and you will raise your station,' " said the driver, Mukul Asaduzzaman, to the New York Post newspaper. He refused a reward.
Bacteria which glow green in the presence of explosives could provide a cheap and safe way to find hidden landmines, Edinburgh scientists claim.
The bugs can be mixed into a colourless solution, which forms green patches when sprayed onto ground where mines are buried.
Edinburgh University said the microbes could be dropped by air onto danger areas.
Within a few hours, they would indicate where the explosives can be found.
The scientists produced the bacteria using a new technique called BioBricking, which manipulates packages of DNA.
Alistair Elfick, from the university's school of engineering, who supervised the student-led project, said: "This anti-mine sensor is a great example of how innovation in science can be of benefit to wider society.
"It also demonstrates how new scientific techniques can allow molecules to be designed for a specific purpose."
Each year, between 15,000 and 20,000 people are killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance, according to the charity Handicap International.
Some 87 countries are riddled with minefields, including Somalia, Mozambique, Cambodia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Source: BBC News
Yankees manager Joe Girardi capped a victorious World Series night by helping a woman who had crashed her car on a suburban New York parkway.
"Obviously, there's a lot of joy in what we do, but we can't forget to be human beings where we help others out. I think that's the most important thing we can do in life," Girardi said during an interview on WFAN-AM radio.
Girardi was driving to his Westchester home with his wife around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, hours after the Yankees' World Series win over the Phillies, when he came across a vehicle that had crashed into a wall.
"Her SUV looked horrible," Girardi said. "We pulled off to the right, I had my wife call the police, I ran across the street because as bad as the car looked, I was really concerned. When I got there she was on the phone talking to the police.
"She only had a little cut. She couldn't open the door and I said, 'Ma'am, you need to get out of this car because if someone comes around the bend they're going to hit the back of your car.' "
Police arrived a few minutes later.
"She had no idea who I was," Girardi said of the driver, Marie Henry of Stratford, Conn.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Two Wisconsin Goodwill workers made a surprising discovery while sorting through a load of donated shoes -- $13,000 in cash.
Jerry Schmitz, 30, and Len Nyen, 55, are used to finding loose change and knick-knacks when unpacking footwear from boxes and binding them with rubber bands, but two weeks ago they found a yellow envelope full of $100 bills dated from 1981.
"My mind kind of went blank for a couple minutes," Schmitz told the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune. "And I didn't really know what to think. I guess I was in a state of shock, you know."
A mother and daughter torn apart by cold war politics and tyranny in Eastern Europe were finally reunited this week after almost 40 years.
Petra Hoffman, now 55, was just 16 when her daughter was taken from her shortly after birth and given up for adoption in East Germany in 1971. The Stasi secret police had her labeled as an unfit mother because the baby's father had been jailed for speaking out against the then-Communist government, according to UK's Daily Mail.
Her efforts to regain her baby earned her a brief prison term and label of enemy of state. After being freed, she gave birth to a boy in 1974.
"They came to the door at night, pushed me aside, and stole him from his bed," she told the Mail.
She continued to fight to get her children back and eventually landed back in jail for a six-year stint.
Her release from prison coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall an the end of Communism. She was released and then resumed her quest to find her offspring through a variety of methods but to no avail. Hope seemed lost until six weeks ago when she received a revealing letter that read: "You don't know me at all, but I believe you are my mother."
Mandy Reinhardt, 38, was a mother of two who had been searching for a birth parent since 1992. She had been adopted by a couple who supported the former ruling party.
"My foster parents were lovely people but she is my real mother and I have waited so long for this day," Reinhardt told the Mail.
Hoffman and Reinhardt embraced for the first time this week and wept together over what each had been through.
Reinhardt said her foster parents also had information on her brother who she vows to find as well.
For Full Story, go to: UK's Daily Mail
Astrid Thoenig got dressed, went to work and sat at her desk smiling Thursday as she slid her finger gently under the envelope flap of yet another identical birthday card. They don't make that many that say "Happy 100th."
Thoenig was interrupted by a steady stream of deliverymen bringing bouquets, chocolate-dipped strawberries and stacks of cards to the Thornton Insurance Co. in Parsippany where she's been answering phones, keeping financial records, handling payroll and typing up documents for more than 30 years.
"It's another day — it's hard to explain," Thoenig said of turning 100. "I don't feel old, and I don't think old."
A big-spending Atlanta man came close to blowing an investment in a shiny new asset when he lost an $8,000 diamond just a month after he bought it.
Ole Krarup purchased the two-carat gem to celebrate his 70th birthday in August, only to lose it last week, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Krarup told the paper that the diamond was set in a ring designed to match his cowboy belts.
Last Thursday, he wore the ring to dinner at Chops Lobster Bar, a nearby eatery that he frequents several times a week. Unfortunately, it wasn't until later on that he realized his prized stone had fallen out of the ring.
Krarup returned to the restaurant to see if the diamond had been recovered, only to be disappointed.
Chops manager Brian Fogarty told him he was out of luck. But soon after, Fogarty spotted the sparkler on the floor.
"I looked down on the floor, and there it was," Fogarty told the Journal-Constitution. At once he contacted Krarup and told him to come and retrieve his diamond.
"How’s that for honesty?" Krarup told the Journal-Constitution. "Most people would take that and get it re-set."
He even planned to reward the Good Samaritan with a $1,000 check -- an offer that Fogarty politely declined.
For more on this story, check out Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Source: Good News Now
