Steve Hartman

Vienna, Virginia — It started as a friendship outside the weight room of James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia, between a group of sophomore football players and the school custodian, Francis Apraku.

Oxford, Ohio — Make no bones about it, Bill Pyles' front yard in Oxford, Ohio, has bones all about it.

Oxford, Ohio — Make no bones about it, Bill Pyles' front yard in Oxford, Ohio, has bones all about it.

Swedeborg, Missouri — When residents in the small central Missouri community of Swedeborg decided earlier this year to name the primary campus

The ClemsonLIFE program gives students with intellectual disabilities a chance to learn life skills. But as much as the program offers, junior Charlie McGee wanted the whole college experience.

Jody Hartman of Freeport, Maine, went viral for giving his pets the OK to run and jump through the autumn leaf piles.

Mesquite, Texas — For Earl Guynes and his son, Jared, cars have always been their love language, bonding over Bondo and brake pads since Jared was young.

I never wanted to be this kind of reporter, knocking on the door of someone who lost a child in a school shooting. And yet there I stood, knocking, nonetheless.

Near Atlanta — Cheryl Johnson and her TNT sportscaster husband, Ernie, say they've had a blessed life, due in no small part to a decision they made back in 1991.

Ernie and Cheryl Johnson had planned to hold onto their late son Michael's quirky key collection forever. But then they met 6-year-old Cooper Kivett.