A would-be mugger thought he’d easily overcome a slender female alone at night, but when he pulled his “secret weapon” on her, things didn’t go as planned. She was a UFC fighter, and when she noticed his weapon was “too soft,” she decided to show him what she does for a living, teaching him a lesson he won’t soon forget. Polyana Viana, a 27-year-old UFC strawweight fighter weighing less than 115 pounds, was leaving her apartment around 8…

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A mom happened to glance at her son’s hands on picture day, and she saw something she hadn’t noticed before. The second she saw his hands, she lost it — knowing all too well what it meant. Cassandra Lane is a loving mother of five, and she knows better than most people how expenses can pile up. Although we want to give our children the world, as our responsibilities and children grow, their desires become…

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A US Army veteran and avid Second Amendment supporter said he was booted from the Indianapolis Zoo for wearing a sweatshirt with five words on the front which the staff found “offensive.” Take a look and decide for yourself if there was an issue with his clothing. Anthony Edmonson claims he was asked to leave the Indianapolis Zoo for wearing a sweatshirt featuring the image of a bullet and a sexual innuendo. The 31-year-old US Army…

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She heard the tap again. It was the third one that night. Deciding enough was enough, she went into her husband’s study and turned on the cameras. Another tap sang at the door. She swiped through the different cameras, breathlessly searching for the porch. Her mind relaxed when she found the camera, but what she saw made her run for her husband. Kelly was unlike most twenty-six-year-olds in her neighborhood. She was done with grad…

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He was gone for days. She had enough. She rummaged through his drawers, hoping to find a clue that would lead her to his whereabouts. Her heart pounded as she read the address written in his late wife’s handwriting. She grabbed her keys and began a journey that would lead her to the unimaginable reason he refused to take his wedding ring off. It was supposed to be like any other day when Joanne Williams…

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She looked at her paycheck and chuckled, shaking her head at the nine dollars that stared back at her. This was her pay after working for seventy hours. Life was already difficult. Her bills were due, most of which she was already behind on. She couldn’t continue working this hard for such little pay. She would have her revenge. Many people describe adult life as hard. Life after high school demands that a person becomes…

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She couldn’t believe what they had done to their little girl. She was only 7 but they brought down such harsh punishment for something so small. And to think it was just how she had written her name down on her test paper. She would make them regret it. Alyssa was an ordinary 7-year old girl. She loved her parents, would giggle at most things, and loved the color pink. But she knew how to…

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A red car pulled up to the gate. Only the passenger door opened and an old man jumps out. Before anyone could react, the car was gone, leaving the old man behind. The family was stunned. They could not believe their eyes. It had been too long. Surely this must be some kind of joke—it was like seeing a ghost. Bacau, a city in Romania is well known for its colorful culture. The outskirts of…

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A dog found living on the street after his family ‘moved away and abandoned him’ was rescued by a passer-by – but has been waiting for a new home for months. Initially things looked bleak for the 8-year-old pooch, who lay in the dirt for months behind a warehouse in California, across the street from his former home. He had no food or water, relying on the good will of passing truck drivers to give…

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Every year on Christmas day, a special delivery makes its way to some very deserving shelter dogs. It’s the arrival of Santa’s sleigh at Best Friends Animal Society, a shelter for homeless pets in Kanab, Utah. The sleigh is piled high with new, donated toys and treats for the dogs, who live at the shelter in an area known as Dogtown. The tradition, says Chief Sanctuary Officer Judah Battista, goes back “to the beginning of the Sanctuary,…

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