GOOD NEWS

It’s a happy reunion for a dog and its owners thanks to a homeless man who found the pup after it ran away from a grooming shop on the Upper East Side.

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.

The boy accidentally called 911 on his mom’s phone, and when police came to the house to check on the call, he told them he wanted a police car. So the department got him a special gift in time for his birthday. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

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.

The vehicle wasn’t in park — and started to roll forward onto a sidewalk where students were standing, officials say. The parent wasn’t anywhere near the car.

There is some good news for the people who are looking for a first-time salaried job. We all know college loans are rising dramatically, but at least salaries seem to be now, too. The National Association of Colleges and Employers said the average starting salary for the class of 2020 is up about 2.5% from the year before. And more…

Over the past few years, the average starting salary for college graduates has gone up by thousands of dollars.