As a child growing up in Panama, Juan Vasquez didn’t wonder too much about his father. He knew his parents had met at a dance club while his dad was stationed by the United States Air Force in the small Central American country, but the only information his mother had about her mysterious dance partner […]
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There are countless reasons to adopt. One of those is the life you will impact. There are still thousands of kids waiting in foster care for the right. November is National Adoption Awareness Month, and one mother from Hope, Indiana wants to share why she chose to give her son a life she couldn’t provide. […]
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A dog named Kingston is back with his family 101 days after he jumped out of their truck as they fled a devastating Northern California wildfire. The 12-year-old Akita was reunited Monday with the Ballejos family, who fled the town of Paradise late last year, Sacramento television station KXTV reported. “When I found out, (it) just […]
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Sargon Isaac looks at his family with tears in his eyes during Christmas dinner when he thinks of what it took to get to this moment. At 68, the unmarried San Jose man recently discovered he’s a father and grandfather. In the 1970s, Isaac was a touring musician in England. He says he opened for […]
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A family has been reunited with their cat after it stayed behind the deadly Camp Fire last month that leveled their home in Paradise, California. Courtney Werblow and her family returned to her parents’ burned home in Paradise over the weekend and found their beloved cat, Timber, standing near the ruins. Werblow recorded a video […]
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On the morning of Nov. 8, Jim Sherbourne’s evacuation order didn’t come from authorities. As the flames of the so-called Camp Fire, which became California’s deadliest, raced toward Sherbourne’s house in Concow, it was his 2-year-old German shepherd, Jake, who woke him up in time to escape. But after days of breathing the smoky air […]
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If you’re like us, we can’t get enough of military homecomings. This time it was mom who was deployed for six months. Air Force Staff Sgt. Chelsey Speciher left just before her son Bennett turned 2. They spoke often on camera but she could wait to see him again. However, she was nervous about how […]
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Two deputies who helped save a 9-month-old boy’s life in Lakewood were reunited with the child Monday and thanked by his grateful parents. Steven Hanna’s parents brought him to the Lakewood sheriff’s station to see deputies Tyler Milton and Alissa Farrington, whose boss, Sheriff Jim McDonnell, was on hand to witness the reunion. On Aug. […]
