Country Music News

Contests

[empowerlocal_ad localstories]

Facebook

Top News

Trending

daily-dose-of-uplift-2

Teen Graduates While Awaiting a Heart

“People” magazine did a story on a kid in Chicago named Taevion Norris, who missed his high school graduation because he’s waiting on a heart transplant.  So school officials threw him his own graduation at the hospital. Despite his health issues, he pushed to get all his schoolwork done in time to graduate.  So they decided he deserved an official ceremony.
daily-dose-of-uplift-2

Lawn Care for the Animals

Half-a-dozen lawn care companies in Kansas joined forces last month to help people out and raise money for charity.  They mowed and weed-whacked more than 30 yards for free, and partnered with an animal rescue charity. One of the companies was SB Mowing.  The owner is big on social media, because he goes around offering to clean up people’s yards for free.  He ended up finding and rescuing a litter…
daily-dose-of-uplift-2

Happy World Sea Turtle Day!

Zoo Miami gave a Father’s Day shoutout to one of its residents this weekend.  Goliath is a 500-pound Galapagos tortoise who became a first-time dad this month at age 135.  A spokesperson for the zoo called him “living proof that where there is a will, there is a way.”