GOOD NEWS

If there is a such thing as an ordinary heart transplant, this was not it. It marked the first time an HIV positive patient received a heart from an HIV positive donor.

Are healthy living and exercise the tickets to a long life? Maybe, but for one New York City woman, she says the key is much simpler — and much more enjoyable.

First responders in White Lake Township, Michigan, threw a one-of-a-kind parade for a 3-year-old fighting lymphatic leukemia.

“I was raised to know that if it’s not yours, you don’t keep it,” said JoAnn Oliver, who has been caring for her husband with terminal cancer.

A passerby on his way to work — who just happens to be a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt — chased down an assault suspect after seeing him sucker-punch a construction worker in SoHo and take off running.

A man accused of punching people at random was taken down by a good samaritan – who just happened to be a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Adam Harding reports.

A Tennessee woman got a surprise from Chick-fil-A after sharing a story about her grandmother who looked forward to the return of peach milkshakes each summer.

It’s an all-too-familiar story: Someone hits the gas instead of the brake pedal. But they don’t all end up in bays. And they certainly don’t all have 17-year-olds diving after them.

Dramatic rescue footage showed four injured sailors stranded after their boat was badly damaged in rough seas 80 miles south of Long Island, and the daring rescue to attempt to save them.

A Brooklyn speech and debate teacher was on the verge of going broke after spending thousands of dollars of his own money to help his students compete in Ivy League tournaments — until a popular Instagram page got wind of his story.

It’s not known how much was so generously shared, but a man was seen for about a minute throwing bills into the air from the second floor of a New Jersey mall in an unusually kind gesture.

When Mary Elliott did find the ticket, some barcode-blocking coffee stains added another potential hurdle to claiming her prize.

A screen-savvy New Jersey toddler somehow managed to order close to $2,000 worth of furniture online from Walmart.

The mother was screaming and Cecilia Morales, who joined the TSA in October, tried to tell her what to do. She was too panicked — so Morales quite literally leaped into action.

An unsigned letter, a phony return address — and a cardboard box full of cash. That’s what one professor found as he was going through old mail in his office at City College of New York.

It’s enough lights to blind Clark Griswold’s neighbors — in fact, it’s 25 times as many lights as the beloved Chevy Chase character put on his house.

A little girl who lost a teddy bear she’d had since being adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage thought it was gone forever when she forgot it along a trail in Glacier National Park last year

Good Samaritans and members of TV mob show “Gravesend” acted quickly to free the 14-year-old who was struck by the out-of-control vehicle as he was walking his dog.

The owner of a New Jersey pet store said that three rare, expensive birds that were stolen from the shop over the weekend have been returned, along with an apology note.

A retired flight attendant pushing a beverage cart from Boston to New York City in honor of his colleagues who died on Sept. 11, 2001, has made it to the Bronx. Marc Santia reports.