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A military veteran who is also a McDonald’s employee celebrated his 92nd birthday Saturday in Dayton, Tennessee. 

Groups of teenagers in Georgetown, Texas, are donating their own money to nonprofit organizations to do good to those around them.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The three survivors of a South Dakota plane crash that killed nine members of an extended family from Idaho are in stable condition at a hospital.

A Georgia man was reunited with his cat recently after it disappeared from a truck stop in Ohio last July.

Hundreds of people in York, Pennsylvania, received much-needed warm winter clothing Saturday, thanks to two nonprofit organizations. 

A Canadian woman arrested in 2009 for not holding onto an escalator handrail has been awarded $20,000 in damages by the country’s Supreme Court.

A couple in Sioux City, Iowa, recently shared the story of how adoption made them a family of 12. 

Santa Claus worked with volunteer firefighters in Connecticut to put out a house chimney fire during a parade on Saturday.

More than 100 Community members packed a small church in Taunton, Massachusetts, to honor a veteran who died without family November 22. 

Several vandals were caught on camera allegedly slashing a Missouri family’s Christmas decorations, according to a video of the incident.

Nine people have died in a plane crash in Brule County, South Dakota, Saturday afternoon, an official confirmed to a local news outlet. 

An Indiana teen’s quick actions saved his next-door neighbors from a house fire that could have been worse if he did not intervene sooner.

A woman was reunited with her favorite horse last week in Redding, California, while she recovered from major surgery.

Sheriff’s deputies in Kansas got a two-for-one Black Friday special when they caught two brothers who stole two different SUVs just hours apart.

A World War II veteran said he was thankful to be alive this Thanksgiving after a Good Samaritan saved his life. Now, he is searching for that young man who saved his life.

Two Illinois state troopers made it their mission this week to save a heart transplant in danger of not making it to the hospital in time.

A senior citizen brought home the prize of her life this week after a hunting trip with her son in Phillips, Wisconsin. 

GLENPOOL, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma police chief says an officer bought Starbucks for 911 dispatchers working on Thanksgiving only to find that the word “PIG” was printed on the cups’ labels.

A mother in Malden, Massachusetts, recently received the sweetest gift she could ever have imagined from her disabled son.

A beloved dog was reunited with her owner Thanksgiving Day after she went missing on Halloween night in Kansas City, Missouri.

A father and son met for the first time in Denver, Colorado, on Thanksgiving Day thanks to a simple DNA test. 

San Francisco saw record-breaking cold on Thanksgiving Day with temperatures plummeting to 48 degrees, ty ing the city’s record for November, according to a report.

A father and son were arrested Tuesday after posting video of themselves allegedly drag racing through Lincoln Tunnel. 

Firefighters with Phoenix’s fire department rescued a 17-year-old girl who got stuck in a chimney reportedly for more than one and a half hours Wednesday night, according to a video of the incident.

Eleven suspects were arrested this week for allegedly running a UPS drug trafficking ring out of Tucson, Arizona, for nearly a decade.

A businessman is making sure people in need receive a free Thanksgiving meal this year in Orlando, Florida.

A Texas couple really paid it forward after they handed the keys to a car to a Denny’s waitress who served them breakfast.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A day after bringing havoc to the Rocky Mountains, a powerful winter storm rolled across the Midwest on Wednesday, threatening to scramble Thanksgiving plans for millions of people during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year.

NEW YORK (AP) — The beloved balloons were flying, if lower than usual, as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade began after an anxious weather watch Thursday morning.

Heavy snow caused local authorities to close Interstate 5, the “Grapevine,” north of Los Angeles, as a winter storm continued to pound California on Thanksgiving morning.

Hours before he passed away, Norbert Schemm spent his last evening having a drink with his three sons from his hospital bed.

The family of a fallen soldier now has a place to call home just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday this year.

A New Jersey hospital admitted that doctors gave the wrong patient a kidney transplant because the person had the same name as the intended recipient.

The United Way and Catholic Charities of Boston said they are teaming up to give Thanksgiving meals to thousands of Boston families this year.

A Massachusetts widow received more than $126,000 in donations to help pay off her mortgage after she fell behind her mortgage payments following her husband’s death.

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — A Marine deserter wanted in the fatal shooting of his mother’s boyfriend was captured Wednesday after a weekslong, multistate search that had schools and neighborhoods on alert in Roanoke, Virginia.