‘Unbelievably beautiful’: Giant ice castles light up in Colorado
The experience is built using hundreds of thousands of icicles hand-placed by professional ice artists.
Try this on for size: College student creates her own 12-foot social distancing dress
Shay Rose, a 21-year-old UCLA student, proved there’s a dress for every occasion after designing a 12-foot gown to help her stay socially distant.
Army son surprises St. Pete police sergeant with holiday homecoming
Lieutenants with the St Petersburg Police Department helped to orchestrate a homecoming surprise for one of their colleagues on Christmas Eve.
Emotional video shows local high school teenager sharing college acceptance email with late mother
A local high school teenager shares her acceptance into Duke University with her late mother at her grave.
‘This shows who they are’: Deputies buy van for woman who walked miles to work
Christine Wheeler’s daily routine got a lot easier after she was gifted a free van for the holidays by sheriff’s deputies who saw her walking miles to work to support her family.
Student sells Pokémon cards for thousands to pay for graduate school
A University of North Georgia student transformed his childhood passion into an investment for eventual medical school, purchasing a series of Pokémon cards as a teen and building on his interest founded as a six-year-old.
Hundreds turn out to thank Virginia UPS driver for deliveries, kindness: 'He makes you feel like a friend'
UPS driver Anthony Gaskins was moved to tears after members of a community banded together to thank him for his record number of daily deliveries during the coronavirus crisis.
Kentucky man goes viral for clearing snowy driveway with flamethrower
Timothy Browning stunned fans after a relative filmed him standing in his driveway wearing nothing but a white bathrobe, socks, slippers and a hat, recreating Cousin Eddie from the iconic holiday movie "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."
‘I actually like cried’: A struggling photographer tweets about looking for work, Oprah responds
Malcolm Manning was about to break away from photography when he captured his biggest client: Oprah Winfrey.
Paralympic medalist cheers on little boy taking first steps with prosthetic leg
"You’re doing great!" Leeper says to KJ, walking towards him. "You’re doing awesome!"
Love it or hate it: Flamin' Hot Cheetos tamales divide family at Christmas
A Washington man decided to create a Flamin’ Hot Cheetos tamale to spice up his family’s Christmas Eve tradition but his family were not so thrilled with his rendition.
‘We had our time and it was wonderful’: Husband writes wife love letter before dying from COVID-19
Sonya Kypuros tears up thinking about the last words her husband emailed her from the hospital before dying of COVID-19.
Hospital develops 'hugging curtain' for sick children to touch loved ones
A hospital in Rome has come up with a unique solution to allow families to have personal contact with children who are patients while also minimizing the risk of them catching the coronavirus.
Anonymous donor gifts Cy-Fair family $100K on Christmas Eve after fire destroys their home
Two days before Christmas, Catherine Modlies and her 11 children, ranging in age from 2 to 23, lost their Cy-Fair home when a fire started in the garage and spread. The next morning, the anonymous donor reached out to FOX 26's Natalie Hee asking to help facilitate the delivery of a $100,000.
North Texas company donates new cars to four COVID frontline workers
Christmas came a little early for four people who are on the frontlines of COVID care in the form of a new car.
Hip Hop artist Papoose holds toy giveaway
For many people here it wasn't just about the gifts for the kids, it was a whole sense of community with people coming together at a time when so many feel so isolated.
New COVID-19 treatment saves local great-grandmother just in time for Christmas
A new COVID-19 treatment saved a Houston-area great-grandmother just in time to celebrate Christmas. And she didn't have to be hospitalized.
Man rescued after 10 hours in car buried by snow plow
A man who drove off the road in last week's snowstorm spent 10 hours trapped in his car after a passing plow and rapidly accumulating snow buried it, finally managing to get a 911 call through and being rescued in the nick of time by a New York state trooper.
Deputies respond to cheetah sighting in Oregon that turned out to be stuffed animal
Multnomah County deputies are poking fun at themselves after responding to a prank call of a sighted cheetah that turned out to be a stuffed animal.
Deputies buy car for mother of 2 after finding out she walked 6 miles to work
Deputies and community members teamed up to buy a car for a mother of two in Ottawa, Kansas, on December 15, after learning she had been walking six miles to and from work every day.