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A Jersey City, New Jersey, police sergeant is being hailed as a hero for assisting a wounded police officer who had been shot in the shoulder while ducking for cover under a stream of gunfire.

A Navy veteran received an early Christmas gift this year after a few sponsors at a recent Charlotte Checkers hockey game teamed up to present her with a car on Friday night.

Starbucks Coffee Company has apologized after two sheriff’s deputies in Riverside County, California, said they were refused service.

The community in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is coming together to rebuild a family’s home after their 12-year-old son with schizophrenia caused extreme damage to their home.

A former bank employee from Charlotte, North Carolina, was busted after he allegedly stole $88,000 from his bank’s vault, prosecutors said.

Volunteers laid hundreds of thousands of wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery and nearly 1,600 additional locations across the United States this weekend to honor those who served. 

Two coffee shop owners in Oak Grove, Oregon, put friendship before competition Wednesday to walk through a crisis together.

A Missouri church did its best to honor the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris by creating a 7-foot tall gingerbread replica of the church.

A Salvation Army bell ringer in Noblesville, Indiana, recently found a coin worth more than he ever imagined inside his red kettle. 

A special education teacher in Milledgeville, Georgia, made sure her students played an important role on her wedding day. 

A church in Virginia recently helped pay off $18,000 worth of its neighbor’s school lunch debt in Stafford and Spotsylvania Counties.

Detroit has failed to remove thousands of dead voters from the list of registered voters, a lawsuit filed in federal court alleges.

A generous Secret Santa paid off $20,000 in layaway accounts at an Auburn, Alabama, Walmart on Monday morning, focusing on accounts with children’s toys.

A Michigan girl is spreading joy to others by giving them a new set of wheels this holiday season.

A girl from Orlando, Florida, with a rare form of cancer found a bone marrow donor just in time for the holiday season.

A secret Santa in Rigby, Idaho, is making the holidays a little easier this year for a widow and her teenage grandson. 

A young boy in Sarpy County, Nebraska, is being praised for saving a drowning child during a pool party in June. 

A man’s quick actions saved a small dog from what could have been a horrible accident after its leash got caught between an elevator’s doors.

A mystery woman recently made the Christmas season a little easier for a single mother of three in Warrington, Pennsylvania.

Hundreds of rescue pets found new homes last week after an animal shelter in Hazard, Kentucky, asked for community help.

A wounded Navy lieutenant who joined the military in 1991 and served for more than 20 years as a Navy SEAL received a mortgage-free home Tuesday thanks to the nonprofit Building Homes for Heroes.

Chilling footage of two suspected gunmen with their firearms drawn while storming a Jersey City kosher supermarket emerged online Wednesday.

A woman’s Christmas light display in Lenexa, Kansas, is rubbing neighbors the wrong way because of its graphic nature.

The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) signed Tuesday will provide “significant long-term economic benefits” to California farmers, the Fresno Bee reports.

Parents in Stockton, California, fought off an alleged carjacker Sunday when he tried to drive off with the kids still inside.

The Tampa Police Department is selling its own version of “art” to mock the banana art installation priced at $120,000 in a Florida art gallery.

Employees of a Baltimore, Maryland, real estate firm got a surprise bonus for Christmas this year.

An unidentified man was arrested Tuesday after attacking two security guards at the largest U.S. Catholic church, according to WTOP.

An Oregon mother is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy at her daughter’s school after connecting with him through Snapchat.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning consumers of an E. coli outbreak linked to salad sold in three states and Canada.

A generous nine-year-old girl asked only one thing for her birthday this year— that the toys from her birthday party be donated to Toys for Tots so kids in need could enjoy them.

Pierce Bush, the grandson of the late George H.W. Bush, is entering the race for an open congressional seat in Texas on Monday, according to an email from his father Neil Bush.

A 5-year-old in a remote Alaskan village carried a toddler a half-mile to a neighbor’s house after they were left home alone in sub-zero temperatures, police said.

An anonymous donor couple in Big Lake, Minnesota, is making sure their neighbors enjoy the Christmas season this year.

A Maine man has been accused of turning a child’s playroom at a Methodist church into a lab that produces methamphetamine.

A New Jersey man and former Connecticut supermarket employee has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for his role in a $3.2 million food stamp fraud scheme.