Viral Stories

She’s setting the bar high. One lawyer from Hawaii is unrecognizable after becoming a super-fit bodybuilder — at 60 years old. Ilene Block, who is now 63, had struggled with dieting and keeping weight off for her entire life. So, when she turned the big 6-0, she decided to take a step back from things and try…

He was red-faced and crying in the passenger seat of a white sedan, fists pounding the glass. Windows rolled up. No adults in sight. It was almost 90 out. I dropped my groceries right there in the lot and ran to the door. Locked. He saw me and started screaming louder. I called 911, hands…

He was standing next to a black sedan, sobbing so hard his whole body shook. No shoes, sunburn creeping up his neck, little fingers clutching the door handle like it would open if he just begged hard enough. I scanned the lot. No one running. No one calling his name. I knelt down. “Hey buddy,…

You don’t think when you’re running into a fire. You just go. Smoke in your throat, heat on your back, adrenaline louder than your own heartbeat. We were called in just after 2 a.m.—small house, heavy flames, neighbors yelling something about a kid still inside. Found her in the back bedroom, curled under a desk.…

SAN ANTONIO (WOAI) – A 10-year-old boy who was recently presented with a service dog decided to pay it forward by helping another young child in need. Archer Bellucci, from Cibolo, met his best friend Phish Food last fall. Phish Food — that’s the service pup’s name — comforts Archer as he battles a chronic…

This photo? It looks ordinary. A kid on a slide. Ponytail lopsided. Shirt riding up. Pink shoes full of bark chips. You’d scroll past it in a heartbeat if she weren’t mine. But that day, I remember exactly what I was thinking as I took it: Please let her feel normal for five minutes. Because…

I don’t know where the water came from. One minute I was washing dishes, and the next, it was at my ankles—then my knees. The power cut out fast, and the front door swelled shut from the pressure. I grabbed the kids and made it upstairs as the living room vanished under brown water. My…

One peaceful evening, as the sun dipped behind the trees and painted golden streaks across the still lake, something unusual caught my eye near the water’s edge. Resting gently on the rocks was a single red rose—its petals fresh and vivid against the soft glow of twilight. Attached to its stem was a note, the…