You prayed for a jam to get you through the rest of your work week and Janelle Monáe answered. The rebel android queen has just released a cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" and it's bound to have you dancing in your seat. » 4/02/14 6:32pm 4/02/14 6:32pm

A Girl Scout troop in Houston is credited with helping stop a couple of shoplifters a local grocery store. » 3/16/14 9:30pm 3/16/14 9:30pm

Meet Amber, hero dog and loyal, loving companion. She is credited for saving the life of her owner after a snowmobile crash left him stranded in the woods for more than 26 hours. » 3/06/14 10:30pm 3/06/14 10:30pm

Saddest: Firefighters say an 8-year-old boy who saved 6 people from an early morning fire in Penfield, New York lost his life while trying to save a 7th person — his disabled uncle. » 1/22/14 1:20pm 1/22/14 1:20pm

This month's issue of Elle contains a profile of WNBA player Brittney Griner made me fall in love with her a little bit. And it will probably make you fall a little in love with her, too. » 11/07/13 7:00pm 11/07/13 7:00pm

When Dorothy "Dot" Lewis, a former Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, passed away this September, her son wanted to do something special to honor her and the other 1,073 WASPs. What better way to honor such an important but largely forgotten aspect of the US Military than with the US's most historic… » 11/07/13 1:30pm 11/07/13 1:30pm

Eeeeee! There's almost nothing I love more than a totally ineffectual power-flounce, when someone announces that they're taking their ball and going home in order to "punish" people who didn't even want to play with them in the first place. And today's big flounce is even better than usual—actor, comedian, and noted … » 10/01/13 8:30pm 10/01/13 8:30pm

In the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December, NRA head Wayne LaPierre famously quipped that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I guess no one told Antoinette Tuff, who just yesterday prevented a standoff with a gunman from turning into another… » 8/21/13 4:50pm 8/21/13 4:50pm

To coincide with the tribute to U.S. Astronaut Sally Ride's life that occured at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in D.C. last night, President Obama has awarded Ride — the first American woman to ever make the voyage into space — with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The honor was bestowed… » 5/21/13 12:20pm 5/21/13 12:20pm

Today in FINALLY, SOMETHING NICE HAPPENED: Twenty Florida high school seniors were prom-bound in their limousine when they saw a van hit the highway median and flip over. Feeling the clarion call of heroism, the teens unstrapped their cummerbunds, tossed aside their Jessica McClintock boleros, and leapt from the… » 5/16/13 2:40pm 5/16/13 2:40pm

Victoria Roman, a trash collecter in NYC, was doing her job last week when she noticed a garbage bag move. Seeing as that was very weird, Roman opened the bag to find month old delivery food that had come to life. JK, it was way worse, a tiny Shih Tzu in very bad condition — her eyes were matted-shut and her toenails… » 4/16/13 8:23pm 4/16/13 8:23pm

On Saturday, a secret service Belgian Malinois died while working to protect Vice President Biden in New Orleans. They were doing an explosives sweep of the parking garage adjacent to the Ritz-Carlton when the dog fell from the sixth floor to his death. » 1/28/13 9:30am 1/28/13 9:30am

Carlie and Lacey Parga, ages 5 and 8, were walking their dog Lucy, when she (much bigger and stronger than they) caught a scent in the woods and pulled them off the path. The girls were gone for two hours when their dad and neighbors began searching fruitlessly for them. » 8/04/12 4:15pm 8/04/12 4:15pm

In a recently released clip from BURN, a documentary following a year in the Detroit Fire Department, firefighters rush to save two dogs from a burning home while the distressed owner is forced to stand by. The outcome looks bleak when the dogs are finally removed from the house — both, one only a puppy, are… » 6/12/12 6:55pm 6/12/12 6:55pm

I try ignore the whole "real life superhero" trend, because it seems pretty clear that they aren't really concerned with fighting crime so much as fighting not-getting-enough-attention. At the newspaper I used to work for in Seattle we would get spammed constantly with "tips" about these people—when pretty much the only… » 5/10/12 3:20pm 5/10/12 3:20pm

When the driver of his school bus started shaking and "acting all funny," 13-year-old Jeremy Wuitschick of Milton, WA (south King County! Woooooo!) jumped into action. As you can see in this fucking awesome security video, the 7th-grader grabbed the wheel and brought the careening school bus to a stop while other… » 4/10/12 4:00pm 4/10/12 4:00pm

Seven-year-old Floridian Rita Lawlor was given an award by the Sarasota County Fire Department for her bravery and composure in the face of what would be a terrifying situation for anyone— her mother wouldn't wake up, even when slapped across the face with a piece of pizza. Master Shredder would be so pleased. » 1/26/12 2:20pm 1/26/12 2:20pm