Information on Today's Good News
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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Crooks beware: There are good kids out there looking to thwart your dastardly — and dumb — deeds.
Or as Donna Myers sees it, her son returning a stolen purse with nearly $2,000 cash is good beating evil.
On Saturday morning, Myers and her three kids helped their Fisher Park neighbors plant and water 12 trees in the park near North Elm Street .
Myers and her oldest son, 11-year-old Edward , went to retrieve water from the creek and spotted a waterlogged purse on the bank.
Nevaeh Lawrence is a bundle of energy; a happy-go-lucky kid who's learning how to read. The 5-year-old is taking on the world and learning important lessons from her mom.
Things were calm Wednesday, but that was not the case Monday.
"I remember taking a bath because it was cold and I don't remember anything else after that except waking up and the cops and EMTs," mom Kimberly Lawrence explained.
When millions would have done anything to get out, one remarkable British soldier smuggled himself into Auschwitz to witness the horror so he could tell others the truth.
Denis Avey is a remarkable man by any measure. A courageous and determined soldier in World War II, he was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a camp connected to the Germans' largest concentration camp, Auschwitz.
But his actions while in the camp - which he has never spoken about until now - are truly extraordinary. When millions would have done anything to get out, Mr Avey repeatedly smuggled himself into the camp.
Now 91 and living in Derbyshire, he says he wanted to witness what was going on inside and find out the truth about the gas chambers, so he could tell others. He knows he took "a hell of a chance".
"When you think about it in today's environment it is ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous," he says.
"You wouldn't think anyone would think or do that, but that is how I was. I had red hair and a temperament to match. Nothing would stop me."
John Dietsch wasn't scared – then or now. While working in the engine room of World War II Allied warships in the North Atlantic, he faced the threat of Nazi mines, warships and U-boats.
"You would hear the guns go off above us. You could feel it all around you," said the 84-year-old.
"There really wasn't time to be scared."
It was the same on Thursday afternoon, when a gunman stormed into a Royal Canadian Legion in Scarborough, demanding thousands in poppy donations. Dietsch and three others had just finished counting through $10,000 at Oakridge Legion, Branch 73, near Danforth and Warden Aves.
The four men entered the room at Orient Road Jail to news cameras rolling and reporters firing questions.
Jerry Dieguez Jr., Terrell Carswell, David Schofield and Hoang Vu have received a flurry of attention since Wednesday when word got out how the four inmates came to the rescue of Deputy Kenneth Moon, who was being strangled by another inmate.
The event was caught on tape and the dramatic video has made the men into worldwide celebrities. The sheriff's office already has fielded calls from "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Inside Edition" and TV stations from as far away as Norway. All wanted interviews with the men.
Pittsburgh steel baron Andrew Carnegie started the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in 1904 after hearing rescue stories from a mine disaster that killed 181 people. Since then, $31.8 million has been awarded to 9,304 people. Medalists, or their heirs, receive $6,000.
Recipients of Carnegie Hero medals, which were awarded Tuesday:
_Mark John Thanos, 48, of Chesterton, Ind. and his father, John Mikel Thanos, 74, of Chesterton, Ind., drowned attempting to save an 11-year-old, 11, from drowning when he was caught in a flooded drainage ditch after heaving rains in Chesterton on Sept. 14, 2008. The boy escaped with their help.
A British army combat medic put the safety of her comrades above her own in saving seven fellow soldiers in the aftermath of a grenade attack in Afghanistan.
Lance Cpl. Sally Clarke, 22, was serving with her patrol in the country's Helmand province when they came across a field mine. While waiting for a team to dispose of it, they came under a surprise attack from Taliban insurgents who fired a rocket-propelled grenade into their midst, according to Britain's Daily Telegraph.
After ducking for cover, Clarke realized that she had shrapnel wounds in her back and shoulder from the explosion -- and that seven fellow soldiers were also down with injuries.
Clarke immediately began moving from soldier to soldier, treating each for their wounds despite the searing pain from her
own wounds, the Telegraph said.
The worst injuries were suffered by Cpl. Paul Mather, 28, who had serious puncture wounds in his arms, legs and buttocks.
"One of the pieces of shrapnel had torn a fist-sized hole through his skin," Clarke told the Telegraph. "I applied field dressings and a tourniquet to one of his wounds, while we waited for the Medical Emergency Response Team to arrive."
Clarke continued caring for all six other soldiers as well and even aided them in reaching a helicopter evacuation point.
However, when it came time for her to take seat on the chopper and to get away from the battlefield, she refused on the grounds that the rest of the patrol required a medic and she couldn't abandon them despite her pain and injuries.
"I didn't feel like my injuries were bad enough to go back to the hospital particularly as I was the only medic on the ground at the time," she told the Telegraph. "I didn't want to leave them on their own."
Clarke later received medical attention and is headed home from Afghanistan.
Source: Good News Network
Firefighting brothers John and Joel Rechlitz of Milwaukee were preparing for a family birthday Sunday when John’s wife Joy called him in a frantic state — just four blocks away, an SUV had flipped over and burst into flames, trapping a mother and her two young children inside.
The Rechlitz brothers arrived on the scene within moments to find a group of good Samaritans already at work, struggling to free the family from the blazing vehicle — but it took guts and a combined 29 years of firefighting experience to save the life of the 4-year-old boy trapped inside by his car seat.
