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Wedding ring found amid 10 tons of trash
Sanitation workers sorted through 10 tons of trash to recover a wedding ring accidentally thrown away by a New Jersey couple.   Full story
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Wife, 88, walks 10,000 miles to honor spouse
He wins $20,580 (in real money) at Monopoly
Priest auctions family silver for homeless
Baby OK after train hits stroller in Australia
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Gloria Estefan buys concert tickets for jobless
NYC fire Samaritan proposes on live TV
92-year-old sky diver still finding adventure
World's oldest man marks 113th birthday
Woman shoots 2 holes-in-one — in same round
Australian cat strays 2,400 miles, returns home
Afghan girls burn themselves to escape marriage
Couple get married at child's funeral
Man's next blood donation will be gallon No. 40
Mich. town to promise scholarships to all
Boaters missing for a week rescued at sea
S.C. retiree wins $260 million Powerball
Woman finds cabbie is a kidney match
Winner picked in Italy's record lotto jackpot
Mo. woman donates kidney to her neighbor
Man spells out marriage proposal in Ohio field
Persistence helps diver find wife’s lost ring
‘Best Dressed’ man helps homeless
Lottery ticket matches $260 million jackpot
Woman missing 5 days found on raft
Dallas woman reunited with dog found in Fla.
Poems turn to song on Israeli ex-leader's 86th
Hallelujah! Church wins $70,000 in lottery
  Donations equip Iraqi baseball team
Hero brothers pulled boy, 4, out of burning SUV
  Video: TV viewers step up to the plate for Iraqis
Tot survives 8-mile river ride on toy
At 84, man gets high school diploma
Saving summer: Gifts keep city pools open
Wallet stolen in 1982 found in NYC tree
Man's wallet returned after 63 years
Dogs help injured soldiers overcome challenges
Man working 3 jobs wins $39 million
Car wash, bake sale to pay for funeral
‘Boy vs. Wild’? TV tips help lost hiker survive
Carpenter nails 2 lottery wins in a week
Baby sea lion rescued on freeway
Teen makes 100-mile wheelchair trek
103-year-old throws out first pitch
Boy's essay lands him in 'Superman'
Pixar fulfills dying girl’s wish to see ‘Up’
Lottery winner plans to grow better carrots
Dolly Parton surprises Girl Scouts
Twice the luck! Man wins lottery 2 times
Kanye West performs for students
Obama writes girl a note for missing school
Grad student, 96, says all-nighters were key
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Coming to the end of Route 66
Nov. 11: Wednesday marked the 83rd anniversary of the nation's system of numbered highways. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
"End of the Trail" for Route 66
Santa's P.O. opens in Germany
Injured swan hitches ride on airplane
Money for the Met
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Widow leaves millions for opera, birds
  A Scottish widow with twin passions for birds and music has left most of her $16.6 million fortune to New York's Metropolitan Opera and a British nature charity.
‘Slow money’ gains momentum
Molly Sims joins fight against malaria
Pepsi pays to 'refresh' communities
‘Sleepers’ raise money for homeless
Madonna promises light for Malawian village
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