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For the past 20 years, Stuart Dunnings III has been the top prosecutor for Ingham County, Michigan and has built a reputation as “an outspoken advocate for ending human trafficking and prostitution.” According to the state attorney general’s office Dunnings took an aggressive approach to his job and…

Ashh Nicole posted a video to YouTube showing insects falling into the glaze as it poured onto to the pastries in a doughnut shop in North Carolina. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/10/28/Doughnut-shop-customer-films-bugs-falling-into-glaze/9151446053180/?spt=sec&or=on That video, coupled with the recent…

An unidentified Syrian refugee gave Police in Minden, Germany 150,000 Euros (over $166,000) that he found in a cupboard a charitable organization gave him. While we don’t know who he is, we do know what he is—a man of integrity. Imagine, a man with such great need, finding so much, but having the integrity…

Johnny Duckworth, a 50-year-old busboy who works at a Colorado diner, doesn’t have a full-time job, a working car, or a home of his own. But when he found an envelope stuffed with $3,000 in cash left by a customer he promptly gave it to his boss who returned it to its owner. The boss, Randy Emmons then…

A borrower returned a book to the library in Holland that he checked out 49 years earlier. The borrower, who was not identified, said he checked out a book about World War II from the library in 1967. He said, he had put it in a trunk and had only recently rediscovered it. The Library Director Diane…

Darrell Cox stopped for breakfast at a diner in his neighborhood for bacon and eggs. He paid for his meal, but did not realize he left something very important behind. After Cox left, Johnny, a worker at the restaurant found an envelope containing $3,000 in the bathroom. He gave it to the manager, who…

In his book, Making the Grass Greener on Your Side, Ken Melrose writes, “When we honestly walk our talk, we link our beliefs and our behaviors. There’s congruence between the two because why we do something is as important as what we do. Both beliefs and behaviors are integral parts of our character.…

Police in Connecticut say they were surprised when a man charged with stealing a television set twenty-seven years ago flew all the way from Florida and turned himself in. When 60-year-old Randy Iannacone heard that there was a warrant for his arrest, he immediately turned himself in. At the police station,…

In “Life Beyond the Law,” Daryl Watts writes, “As my six-year-old daughter’s birthday party approached, I tried to coach her on how to be gracious about gifts. Even as a young child, she already had a reputation for brutal honesty. I asked her, “What do you say if you get a gift you don’t like?” She…

At the Burger King drive through window in Rochester, N.H., Janelle Jones ordered a sandwich and drink. When she opened the bag there was no sandwich inside. Instead there was $2,631, mostly inside bank deposit bags. After talking with her husband Matthew, and thinking about it for a while, the pair…

Three top contenders in the Bangalore Marathon were following their guide car when the car missed a turn and led the runners 2.5 miles in the wrong direction. “The runners discovered the mistake, which occurred about 9 miles into the 13.1-mile half marathon, only when the race crowd thinned and they…

Careerbuilder.com released their 2014 annual survey of reasons for missing work. My favorite on the list was “waking up in too good a mood to work.” —Jim L. Wilson http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/10/23/Too-good-a-mood-to-work-and-other-strangest-sick-day-excuses/5251414080986/?spt=sec&or=on (accessed…

Bruce Rylant was returning home from a trip and stopped to get gas in Georgia. When he reached his next stop, Ryland realized his wallet was gone. In a panic, he cancelled all of his credit cards and rushed to replace the lost insurance cards and his driver’s license. The one thing, Ryland was most upset…

It has been said that your reactions are a better indicator of what you really believe than your actions. Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and Fox News Channel host Greta Van Susteren recently found out how true that statement really is. Graham, Van Susteren, and a group of people…

When Ben Moser’s was in the fourth grade, his friend Mary Lapkowicz had Down syndrome. He watched over her, trying to include her in the games fourth graders play. He wanted her to feel included, even though she was different than the other children. He even promised to take Mary to their high school…

A Canadian woman says she has learned her lesson about communicating clearly and being sure you understand everything you need to know. When Kristen Cockerill returned a rented Mustang to a rental agency, she followed the directions she had been given because the office was closed on Sunday. She parked…

A man who planned a social experiment by posing as a homeless beggar and then giving passersby twice their money back said his plan was foiled when no one offered him a donation. Konrad Ydhage planned to sit in a relatively affluent area and ask strangers for one Kronor (about .14 U.S.). He planned to…

A social experiment put teens in a room by themselves to play a bean-bag toss game. After they played the game researchers asked the teens to report on their own scores. Unknown to the youngsters there was a hidden camera to verify the results. They found that eighty percent of the participants lied,…

Just before Christmas in 2015, Stephen Roseman posted a picture on Facebook of a dog with the caption "badly burned and disfigured trying to save his family from a house fire. One like=one prayer, one share=ten prayers." Thousands of users responded. The good news is that the dog is OK, but it was not…

There remains a warm place in our hearts for truth. NBC Anchor Brian Williams has lost his position with NBC’s Nightly News. NBC relieved Williams when his viewers discovered that he was not truthful in personal anecdotes he told on air about adventures in Iraq and other stories. –--Jim L. Wilson and…

In 1941, a ten-year-old boy and his friend went to Lamb’s Grill in Salt lake City for lunch. After the boys ate, they realized they couldn’t pay the bill which totaled $1, so they ran away. For the next 70 years, the guilt associated with that event haunted the man who is now in his eighties. Though…

A county in Oregon decided to change the attribution for a quote on a veterans monument to “Unknown” after they were unable to prove that George Washington said it. The quote about respect for military veterans had often been attributed to the first president, so the county included that on the monument.…

Is it ever too late to admit a mistake? Evidently there is no statute of limitations for the New York Times. After the movie, “12 Years a Slave,” won an Academy Award readers began researching the Author and the original book from over 100 years ago. In the story about the author’s work published in…

Guilt is a real emotion. Sometimes it is more than we can bear and we have to do something about it. 70 years ago a 10-year-old boy realized he didn’t have enough money to pay for his meal at The Lambs Grill in downtown Salt Lake City. The bill was $1. After all this time, the man’s daughter went in…

Manuel Reija is a convenience store clerk in La Coruna, Spain. He found a lottery ticket on his counter and before throwing it away he checked the numbers. He discovered it was a $6.3 million winner. “I was standing up, but I had to sit down. I almost broke the chair, I was so flustered,” Reija told…