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Jul 17, 2014 9:48 AM CDT

Mom of 2, Age 40, Makes NFL Cheerleader

Kriste Lewis was inspired to try out by her kidney disease

(Newser) - Finally, a nice story about cheerleading in the NFL : Kriste Lewis is a 40-year-old mother of two who has a debilitating kidney disease that will ultimately require dialysis and a kidney transplant ... and she's also one of the newest cheerleaders for the New Orleans Saints. Her diagnosis inspired Lewis...

Woman Missing Part of Heart
Defies Pregnancy Odds

Jul 17, 2014 8:32 AM CDT

Woman Missing Part of Heart Defies Pregnancy Odds

After 9 months of bed rest, new mom Shanelle Ragin, baby survived childbirth

(Newser) - After surviving major heart surgery at one day old, spending a lifetime taking medication, and losing her breath just going up the stairs, Shanelle Ragin has survived both pregnancy and childbirth and is now the proud mother of a healthy baby boy with a healthy little heart. When the Maryland...

Lowe's Workers Fix Vet's Busted Wheelchair (After VA Wouldn't)

Lowe's Workers
Fix Vet's Wheelchair
(After VA Wouldn't)

Jul 16, 2014 6:27 PM CDT

Lowe's Workers Fix Vet's Wheelchair (After VA Wouldn't)

It broke down in store, and 3 employees stayed late to repair

(Newser) - A public thank-you by a Vietnam vet to three workers at Lowe's is providing yet more ammo for critics of the VA . As he explains in a letter to the Staten Island Advance , Michael Sulsona lost both his legs to a landmine during the war. He'd been trying...

Dad's Internet Plea Pays Off in Images of Baby Girl

Jul 16, 2014 3:58 PM CDT

Dad's Internet Plea Pays Off in Images of Baby Girl

He wanted help Photoshopping out hospital tubes for deceased daughter

(Newser) - Little Sophia Steffel was attached to tubes in Ohio hospitals for the entire six weeks of her life—and when she died last Thursday in Cincinnati of complications from a liver tumor, parents Nathen and Emily realized they didn’t have a photo of her without the tubes and tape...

Inspirational Toddler, Generous Pilot Lift Spirits

5 most uplifting

Jul 13, 2014 5:58 AM CDT

Inspirational Toddler, Generous Pilot Lift Spirits

Along with an honest bartender

(Newser) - Here's a look at some of the week's more uplifting stories:

'I Got It!': 2-Year-Old Teaches Self to Use Walker : As catchphrases go, this one is perfect given the circumstances. As 2-year-old Kayden Elijah takes his first steps with a walker, he repeatedly says, "I

...

Good Samaritan Buys Groceries for Strangers

Jul 11, 2014 5:19 PM CDT

Good Samaritan Buys Groceries for Strangers

Anonymous do-gooder surprises shoppers in California

(Newser) - Shoppers at a grocery store in Concord, Calif., got an unexpected surprise at the register this week: free food courtesy of an anonymous stranger, reports the Contra Costa Times . The Good Samaritan showed up at the Grocery Outlet yesterday afternoon and got the permission of the manager for his unusual...

Grandma, 71,
Graduates—
as Valedictorian

Jul 11, 2014 1:15 PM CDT

Grandma, 71, Graduates— as Valedictorian

Jerry Duncan, 71, proves age is just a number

(Newser) - "Just because you got a little age on you, don't let it stop you." Those words come from Jerry Duncan, a 71-year-old grandma and now the valedictorian of the 2014 certified nursing assistant program graduating class at Texas' Kilgore College-Longview. Duncan, who worked as an unlicensed nursing...

World Cup Fan Catches L'Oreal's Eye—Briefly

UPDATED

Jul 11, 2014 9:28 AM CDT

World Cup Fan Catches L'Oreal's Eye—Briefly

Belgium's Axelle Despiegelaere gets famous, then infamous, in a hurry

(Newser) - Argentina may be playing Germany in the World Cup final this weekend, but Australia's News Network is already anointing a different tournament winner: 17-year-old Axelle Despiegelaere of Belgium. The teen got famous in classic Internet fashion as photos of her cheering on her team went viral around the world....

911 Dispatcher Handles Call About Her Choking Son

Jul 10, 2014 4:44 PM CDT

911 Dispatcher Handles Call About Her Choking Son

Panic gives way to calmness, and all ends well

(Newser) - A 911 dispatcher in California had to handle a call that struck particularly close to home—the caller was her fiance pleading for help because their toddler son was choking. "I heard him say an address and I perked up, and then I heard him say it again and...

Bartender Returns $200
She Stole 15 Years Ago

Jul 9, 2014 6:06 PM CDT

Bartender Returns $200 She Stole 15 Years Ago

Guilty conscience finally wins

(Newser) - She was, by her own admission, a lousy bartender. What's worse, she stole from the register at Gibb's sports bar in Beatrice, Nebraska, when she worked there 15 years ago. But as ABC News reports, the anonymous woman has tried to make things right by mailing a long-overdue...

How Pilot Appeases
Stuck Fliers: With Pizza

Jul 9, 2014 9:11 AM CDT

How Pilot Appeases Stuck Fliers: With Pizza

Pilot Gerhard Bradner buys 50 Dominos pizzas, with his own money

(Newser) - Airplane delays have been known to lead to bad situations . Enter pilot Gerhard Bradner, who bought all of his stranded passengers Dominos pizza on Monday night, forking over his own money for 50 pies. As KUSA-TV reports, Frontier Flight 719, which was headed to Denver from Reagan International Airport in...

Baby Survives Miscarriage
of Twin, Abortion Pills

Jul 8, 2014 6:33 PM CDT

Baby Survives Miscarriage of Twin, Abortion Pills

Doctors weren't aware mom was having twins

(Newser) - Megan Hui is a healthy 18-week-old girl, much to the astonishment of everyone involved. As the Daily Mirror reports, mom Michelle suffered a miscarriage six weeks into her pregnancy in Ireland's County Kildare. Doctors, however, did not know at the time that she was pregnant with twins. They gave...

'I Got It!':
2-Year-Old
Teaches Self
to Use Walker

Jul 8, 2014 4:33 PM CDT

'I Got It!': 2-Year-Old Teaches Self to Use Walker

Amputee Kayden Elijah takes first steps

(Newser) - As catchphrases go, this one is perfect given the circumstances. As 2-year-old Kayden Elijah takes his first steps with a walker, he repeatedly says, "I got it," as seen in a gone-viral video spotted by MyFox8 . The New Jersey toddler was born with a slew of serious medical...

3.5K Dead
and Forgotten
Mental Patients
Now Honored

Jul 7, 2014 11:26 AM CDT

3.5K Dead and Forgotten Mental Patients Now Honored

Cremated remains were found decade ago at Oregon State Hospital

(Newser) - They were dubbed the "forgotten souls"—the cremated remains of thousands who came through the doors of Oregon's state mental hospital, died there and whose ashes were abandoned inside 3,500 copper urns . Discovered a decade ago at the decrepit Oregon State Hospital, where One Flew Over ...

Aspiring Model
Poses With Her
Colostomy Bags

5 MOST UPLIFTING

Jul 6, 2014 5:05 AM CDT

Aspiring Model Poses With Her Colostomy Bags

Plus, a new dad's tears and an act of superhuman strength

(Newser) - A photo of a model with Crohn's disease redefining our idea of beauty and a new dad's tears of joy and relief highlight this week's list of the most uplifting stories:

Aspiring Model Poses With Colostomy Bags : Bethany Townsend thought her modeling days were done for good

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After Tragedy, Dad's Joy for 'Rainbow Baby' Goes Viral

Andrew Hanson knew joy of birth could quickly turn tragic

(Newser) - When Andrew Hanson heard his son, Karson, cry for the first time, "it was like he knew that we needed to hear him," he tells the Today Show . The new father grabbed the man who’d just delivered his son safely, Dr. Bryan Hodges, and both men dissolved...

Newtown Rallies
to Honor Victim
Who Loved
Animals

Jul 5, 2014 1:01 PM CDT

Newtown Rallies to Honor Victim Who Loved Animals

State transferring land for animal shelter in name of 6-year-old

(Newser) - Before she was killed in the Newtown school massacre, 6-year-old Catherine Violet Hubbard raised money from returnable bottles and cans to buy bones for dogs at the pound and designed business cards for an imaginary animal shelter, listing herself as "caretaker." Her pretend animal shelter is now on...

Aspiring Model
Poses With
Colostomy
Bags

Jul 3, 2014 2:20 PM CDT

Aspiring Model Poses With Colostomy Bags

Bethany Townsend is done letting them define her

(Newser) - Bethany Townsend thought her modeling days were done for good three years ago when she got fitted with two colostomy bags, a result of her lifelong fight with Crohn's disease. But after a hiatus as a makeup artist, that modeling career might just be getting started, thanks to a...

Fabien Cousteau
Breaks Grandpa's
Underwater Mark

Jul 3, 2014 1:36 PM CDT

Fabien Cousteau Breaks Grandpa's Underwater Mark

Grandson emerges after 31 days in lab

(Newser) - Like grandfather, like grandson. Fabien Cousteau emerged onto land yesterday after spending 31 days in an underwater lab off the Florida Keys, reports the Guardian . The mission in the Aquarius Reef Base, located 63 feet below the surface, comes 50 years after grandpa Jacques Cousteau spent 30 days living underwater...

At Unstaffed
Coffee Shop,
You're on
Your Honor

Jul 2, 2014 3:31 PM CDT

At Unstaffed Coffee Shop, You're on Your Honor

You check yourself out, pay on the honor system

(Newser) - At The Vault coffee shop in North Dakota, you can get a cup of joe, a cup of tea, a pastry. But you get it yourself and you ring yourself up—and when you do, you're on your honor at what The Vault's owner thinks is the only...

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