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A Texas woman was awarded over $229,000 because a cable company placed 153 automated calls to her cell phone. Araceli King said, the calls were meant for the person who had the cell number before her, and even though she told the company, the calls did not stop. The cable company said the calls were…

When the “Our Place Restaurant” in Manfield, Texas ran out of soup, they would not discount their Saturday Special or offer a substitute to Dwain Downey. Instead of shrugging it off, Downey, who happens to be an attorney, sent them a demand letter for $2.25, along with an additional $250.00 fee for writing…

Billy Ray Harris was panhandling on a Kansas City street corner when a passer-by dropped her diamond engagement ring into his cup. When Sarah Darling realized later what she had accidently done she retraced her steps and Harris happily returned it to her. Darling’s fiancé set up a website fund for Harris…

The movie Argo is set in November 1979 Iran and depicts a mob of angry locals outside the gate of the United States embassy. Tempers erupted. Cries of angry voices blared. Sounds of breaking chains and windows reverberated through the embassy compound. Finally the Iranians rushed into the building. That…

Adam Grant, who is the youngest tenured professor at Wharton College in New York, recently conducted research about how helping others can increase overall productivity. His research work began with a person observation, while Grant was working selling ads for a travel guide series. He realized that…

Bismark Mensah, an hourly employee at the Walmart in Federal Way, Washington was helping a woman load groceries into her car. As she drove off, he noticed she had dropped an envelope. The envelope contained $20,000 in cash. Mensah, who immigrated to the United States from Ghana, flagged the woman down…

Darnell Brown is a one-year-old adventurer. Venturing out in East Point, Georgia, Darnell fell into a storm drain and became trapped. The only rescuer who was small enough to reach him was Rosa Tullis, who stands only 4 feet 11 inches tall. She squeezed down the hole where she reached little Darnell…

The biggest free agent in the history of the National Football League signed with the Denver Broncos. In the beginning, no one mentioned the Broncos as a possible landing place for All Star Quarterback and future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning who was seeking to continue his career with a new team. Doing…

Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert wrote: "In a study conducted by Sukhwinder Shergill and colleagues at University College London, pairs of volunteers were hooked up to a mechanical device that allowed each of them to exert pressure on the other volunteer's fingers. The researcher began the game by exerting…

In the Castine, Maine, corner drugstore, I overheard two local residents discussing the virtues and shortcomings of an old-timer who had just passed on to his reward. One of the men asked the other if he would be going to the funeral. “Nope,” replied the other. “He ain’t comin’ to mine, so I ain’t goin’…