The parents of a 7-year-old boy who died after an upstate New York car crash have fulfilled his wish that they get married, and they did it at the child's funeral.

A New York man is donating his 320th pint (half-a-liter) of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons.

A tiny rural school district where nine out of 10 students come from needy families is offering high school graduates $5,000 a year for four years to fulfill their college dreams.

Three Texas boaters missing for a week were reunited with their families early Sunday after they were found alive, sitting on top of their capsized catamaran 180 miles from land, the Coast Guard said.

Rita Van Loenen had no idea that a trip in Thomas Chappell's taxi cab could end up being the ride that saves her life.

A retired South Carolina state employee who spent two bucks on the lottery last week is the winner of a $260 million Powerball jackpot.

Few things can be more neighborly than offering your kidney to a friend.

A lucky lotto player in Tuscany won Italy's record $211.8 million state lottery Saturday, pocketing what has been billed as Europe's biggest jackpot.

A wheat farm has become a field of dreams for an Ohio woman whose boyfriend spelled out a marriage proposal on the land and took her up in a plane to see it.

The three homeless men stand before well-groomed Frank Kelly, "America's Best Dressed Real Man" of 2007, according to Esquire Magazine. He's there to help them get work.

A New Zealand man who promised his wife he would find his wedding ring after it fell into the capital's murky harbor has succeeded — 16 months later.

The economic crunch has drastically improved for one lucky Powerball lottery player who bought a ticket in South Carolina.

The two were reunited Monday at Miami International Airport, where Sunshine happily shook her tail and licked Head's face.

A 63-year-old woman trapped on a small raft caught in river brush wasn't discovered until five days later by a fisherman on his way to his favorite hole, the woman's son says.

Shimon Peres has been a prime minister and a peacemaker. Now he's a poet.

Divine intervention? Or just plain luck? No matter what the circumstances, a Michigan church is $70,000 richer courtesy of the Michigan Lottery.

Aug. 12: Rachel Maddow reports that three companies have donated baseball equipment to the Iraqi national team and the team’s excited to receive the gear. (Other)

"It was horrific" is how Joel Rechlitz described the scene when he and his brother, fellow off-duty firefighter John Rechlitz, helped pull a 4-year-old boy out of a blazing, overturned SUV that had also trapped the child’s mother and 2-year-old brother. The brothers burned their hands on melting metal freeing the child, who is expected to recover.