Richard Browne has helped put smiles back on many faces - he's returned over 100 rings in 30 years of searching with his metal detector...

Since 1982, Richard Browne has been finding and returning precious belongings to Cape Cod beachgoers.

"They give me a call and I go out anywhere on the Cape and find it for them and return it to them for nothing," Browne told the Cape Cod Times. "Two years ago, I returned 22 rings and this past year, 10."

Browne is a member of the Ring Finders, a world-wide network of metal detector specialists whose mission is to reunite people with their lost items.

Browne's heroics came to the fore recently when Reddit user abuaf shared the below story:

I lost a gold ring with sapphires & diamonds at the beach in Cape Cod. I gave my contact info to neighbors & lifeguards, posted a craigslist ad, but left the beach realizing my ring would be lost forever. Within 3 days I was reunited with my ring thanks to Rick Browne, Metal detector extraordinaire.

Browne told the Cape Cod Times that he has found a couple hundred rings during his 30 year career, and he's returned roughly 100, including one that possibly helped save a marriage.

Several of his success stories are documented on his Ring Finders blog. Check them out here.

A trip to Africa changed Dr. Benjamin LaBrot's life forever...he is literally on call around the world on his floating hospital "The Southern Wind"

A doctor who is on-call throughout the developing world!

When Benjamin LaBrot was in second grade in Southern California, he told his class that when he grew up he wanted to be two things: a doctor and a marine biologist. His teacher told him he had to choose one, but he was determined to combine his love of the ocean with his desire to help people.

He started achieving his goals in junior high school, when he worked on sport and commercial fishing boats and the Marine Science Floating Laboratory vessel as a research diver. This led him to become certified as an emergency medical technician and a scuba dive buddy for divers with paraplegia, quadriplegia or blindness.

Throughout his schooling, he and his peers went on personal medical missions all over the developing world. After college he moved to Ireland and joined the global medicine program at the Royal College of Surgeons.

It was on one particular mission to Tanzania in 2006 that he truly found his calling. With a backpack full of medicine, he set up under a tree in a desolate and impoverished village in the Serengeti. A line of 50 patients formed, all of them with a variety of ailments from tuberculosis to lion wounds to common colds.

It was not long, however, before the supplies in his backpack were depleted and the line had only grown longer. Heartbroken and driven to tears by the fact that he would have to leave patients untreated, he decided then and there that he would never leave a patient untreated, no matter what the circumstance.

Father and son Lonnie and Zachary Whitener have an unforgettable Father's Day as they each get a hole in one - on the same hole!

Lonnie Whitener has played plenty of rounds of golf over the years, some of them on Father’s Day. He’s also played plenty of rounds alongside his son, 13-year-old Zach Whitener.

By sheer availability, those two sets of circumstances haven’t coincided too often, but they did on Sunday, when the Whiteners decided to celebrate Dad’s day on the golf course. What resulted was sheer magic.

As reported by the Houston Chronicle, Associated Press and a handful of other outlets, both Whiteners recorded holes-in-one in the same round, on the same hole (the par-3 6th hole) at River Pointe Golf Club in Richmond, Texas. The pair chose to play at that course simply because Zach Whitener likes to see alligators that sometimes slink near the course, just on the edge of view.

The elder Whitener teed off from 115 yards away and scored an ace. His son shot from 100 yard and earned the same result.

"It's probably going to be the most memorable thing we accomplish together," Lonnie Whitener told the Chronicle. "I just hope we have a lot more good things to come. It's one of the coolest things you could ever do."

One of the coolest things, and rarest things statistically. The Chronicle consulted with the National Hole in One Registry, which attempts tracks all aces nationwide, and learned that the odds of two players in any one foursome hitting a hole-in-one on the same hole during the same round are approximately 1 in 17 million.

What makes those odds appear even longer are the Whiteners’ relative lack of golf acumen. The elder Whitemen began golfing 13 years ago and aims to play once a week but still holds a handicap in the 15 to 20-stroke range. His son plays only once a month.

That was all but irrelevant to former University of Texas golfer Lance Lopez, now a PGA of America golf professional, who witnessed both hole in ones go in on top of each other.

"We were speechless," Lopez said. "It was like, 'Did that really just happen?' "

 It’s likely that Lopez wasn’t the last person to be left speechless by the Whitener’s remarkable stroke of luck, which will make them golf legends whenever they take to the course.

"This was something else,” Lonnie Whitener told the Chronicle. “We'll remember this forever. Now I can tell anyone, 'Give me your best golf story, and I'll one-up you.' "

A love story 30,000 miles up - Jet Blue helps to arrange marriage proposal...

What do a smitten boyfriend, an engagement ring, and a super-accommodating airline have in common? They all worked together to pull off the ultimate wedding proposal for one very lucky girl.

Adam, from San Francisco, asked JetBlue Airlines to play a proposal video for his girlfriend, Taryn, during their flight together to Long Beach, California. The airline was happy to oblige the young man. They even kicked it up a notch by playing the video simultaneously on all 150 TVs on the plane.

In the video, Adam details how he first met Taryn when she was a hostess at a P.F. Chang's restaurant and he was a server there. He says that at first they did not get along, because Taryn thought he was arrogant. He later persuaded her to go to his birthday celebration and then to the lake. Finally, he asked her out on a first date. That was all in 2008. As the video continues, a montage of pictures from their five years together plays. Then these words appear: "You are the girl I think about. You are the girl I dream about. You are the girl I can't be without." Adam then lists all of Taryn's qualities that he loves. Of course, he follows with the big question, "Will you marry me?"

Taryn gave an emotional and tear-filled yes to Adam, and the excitement did not end there.

They were immediately greeted by fellow passengers who applauded the young couple's new engagement, and flight attendants passed out cake pops to celebrate. Once the two landed, the surprises continued. JetBlue arranged for an impromptu party with Champagne, cake, and cheers from several staff members.

JetBlue posted on its website the video of the proposal and a description of how it got involved to help Adam and Taryn get engaged. In its blog, "Blue Tales," JetBlue describes its people as "suckers for a good love story." The airline said that eight departments collaborated to create the once-in-a-lifetime moment for the couple.

Isn't it just awesome to see when a company will go above and beyond to make customers happy? Best wishes to the newly engaged couple!

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Solana Cortez didn't give up looking for her biological father Gary Fuller until she found him...proud dad finally gets to meet the daughter he never knew he had.

“Did you think about me?” a woman on the other end of the phone line asked Gary Fuller.

The question came from the 27-year-old daughter he had never met. An ordained minister, Fuller is usually good with words but says her question had him babbling.

“The call was so emotionally charged, I hardly remember what came out of my mouth,” he recalls. “I wasn’t proud of so willingly bowing out and never pursuing her.”

In the summer of 1980, Fuller was a 20-year-old Northern California college student when he began dating a nurse’s aide at the convalescent home where he worked part time. The romance fizzled by the fall, about the same time his girlfriend learned she was pregnant. To further complicate matters, the woman soon became engaged to someone else. Back in school full time, Fuller complied when asked to sign away his paternal rights.

“I didn’t know if the pregnancy went to term. I didn’t know the gender, anything,” Fuller told Yahoo News.

Not until February 2009, when his daughter, Solana Cortez, finally found the right Gary Fuller.

Growing up, Cortez saw four stepfathers come and go. As for her biological father, her mother never spoke his name.

“She would tell me it was in the past and to leave it there,” Cortez says.

But Cortez, whose curiosity grew stronger while she was earning a college degree in genetics, pressed on, searching the web with very little information to go on.

Then her mother finally caved to Cortez and turned over a Bible and a handwritten note Fuller had given her during their brief courtship.

“I assumed that she had gotten rid of everything and anything that had to do with him,” Cortez says.

IKEA store is stage for flash-mob marriage proposal by Carlos Gatos to his girlfriend Rebecca Shackelford whom he had met in the store two years earlier...

What’s in the water at IKEA?

Earlier this month, a New Jersey couple exchanged wedding vows in the picture-frame aisle at their local IKEA store, where they had first locked eyes eight years earlier. Now, in the latest romantic tale for the Swedish furniture retailer, a Miami man, Carlos Gatos, has staged an elaborate flash-mob proposal in the Sunrise, Florida store. 
For some couples, navigating the maze of an IKEA store the ultimate relationship test. But for Gatos and Rebecca Shackelford, it's the place they first met.  Two years later, on June 15th, Shackelford looked floored as a suit-clad Gatos descended the store’s long escalator, bouquet of flowers in hand. Then, at the end of a flash mob’s dance routine to Bruno Mars’s “Marry You,” Gatos dropped to his knees before Shackelford (and in front of a large crowd), saying, “You're the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. I can't think of my life without you. I love you. Will you please marry me?” She responded with a resounding “Yes!” 

Naomi Martinez is reunited with her mother after 40 years when family members reconnect on Facebook...was told as a child that her mother had abandoned her.

When Naomi Martinez was just 5, her father whisked her away from their home in Costa Rica and told her her mother never wanted to see her again.

But 40 years later, KRQE News 13 reports, Martinez has been reunited with her mother thanks to Facebook and a surprising revelation about her past.

Martinez had severely burned her arm as a child when her father, Curtis Dilas, took her to the United States under the guise of getting medical treatment for the injury. However, Martinez was never taken to a hospital for her burn and was instead told her mother had abandoned her.

“I thought she abandoned me and didn't want me and was glad to have me out of her life,” Martinez told KRQE.

Brett Beutler uses 8,000 Post It Notes to propose to his now fiance Megan Loosi...

Relationships can be sticky, but one man proved that stickiness can also be quite successful when it comes to popping the question. Brett Beutler, 26, of Littleton, Colo., surprised his now fiancé, Megan Loosli, 24, by sticking 8,000 Post-it notes all over her living room walls to ask for her hand in marriage. “I came home from work and walked in the door, and wow, it was ridiculous,” Loosli told GoodMorningAmerica.com. “We had picked out the ring and everything, but he gave me this story that it takes a couple weeks to actually get it, so I was thinking July. But then I walked in, and I was shocked for sure.”  Beutler says it took him several months to write ‘I love you’ on the 8,000 individual Post-its. “It was definitely a labor of love,” his mother, Deanna Beutler, said, taking three people seven hours to put them all up. The happy couple is planning to wed in August.

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11 year old Katie Grace Hartley gets to meet her soldier pen pal Sgt. Richard Gromek who was just back from Afghanistan...

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About six months ago, an 11-year-old girl from Columbus, Ga., wrote a Christmas card to an unknown soldier serving in Afghanistan.

Katie Grace Hartley told WTVM 9 News she was inspired by the work of armed service members and thought she'd write a letter to "see who it goes to."

In it, she wrote that she was praying for the soldier and hoped they could one day meet.

Sgt. Richard Gromek received that letter just before he was due to return home. He told the station that the troop's withdrawal timing had delayed mail delivery and prevented him from responding.

But once back, he got in touch with Hartley's grandfather, and the two set up a surprise introduction.

WTVM captured the heartfelt moment.

"I don't know how to explain it," Hartley said after meeting Gromek. "I'm just very happy right now."

It goes to prove that a little action can go -- literally -- a long way.

Unemployed teacher Candace Scott finds $20,000 and returns it...

COLLEGE STATION What would you do if you found $20,000 in cash on the side of the road - take the money and run, or try to return it?

That's what a College Station woman had to decide for herself after she found a bag of hundred dollar bills on William D. Fitch Parkway Tuesday morning.

"The only thing going through my head was whoever lost this money is having a very bad morning and I can't imagine being responsible for losing that amount of money," said Candace Scott.

What Scott did next wouldn't be easy for many people: she brought the bag of cash to the closest Chase Bank, which was one a block away. She says she handed the bag over to the bank manager.

"[The manager] said, 'That's our ATM money. We just had a courier service come and get that'," said Scott.

Scott recently moved back to town from the Panhandle, where she was a middle school teacher. She says she teaches her students to be honest people...and Tuesday, her own morals were put to the test.

"I found something that didn't belong to me...and I wanted to return it to the person it belonged to," said Scott.

Scott may not have a classroom in College Station yet, but she's already leading by example.

Chase Bank rewarded Scott with a $500 gift card.

"We are very grateful to Ms. Scott for stepping up, doing the right thing and returning the bag dropped by our courier service. It is that neighborly spirit that makes College Station a great place to live," said Chase Bank in a statement sent to News 3.

Cristina Torre, the daughter of baseball legend Joe Torre, is being hailed as a hero after catching baby...

The daughter of legendary former Yankees manager Joe Torre was being hailed as a hero after she caught a 16-month-old baby that had fallen from an awning in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

As CBS 2's Hazel Sanchez reports, everyone in the neighborhood was talking about how the baby was dangling from the awning of the Sweetie Frozen Yogurt shop at 9104 Third Ave. in Brooklyn, when Cristina Torre, 44, came to the rescue. She happened to be walking along Third Avenue near 91st Street around 10 a.m. Wednesday when she saw the baby boy -- Dillon Miller -- hanging precariously.

All of a sudden, Dillon fell, and Torre, with her quick reflexes, was able to catch the baby in her arms before he hit the ground.

Witnesses were completely stunned.

"The child was screaming, crying, and they were attending the child, and they were, like, panicking because they didn't know who the child belonged to," a man said. "So then a lady said the child belongs to one of the people who live in that apartment."

Denise Vento of Bay Ridge said Torre had the experience to know what she was doing.

"She was positioning herself, and she works with preschool kids, and she kind of knew from what he was doing; that he was going to come down," Vento said, "and she was in the right place at the right time, thank God."

"She was amazing," said Kristen Bramsen, "and I went over to her and I said, 'You're a hero! You saved the baby!'"

3 year old deaf boy Grayson Clamp hears his father's voice for the first time...

Leave it up to a child to remind us to be thankful for a natural ability most of us take for granted: A 3-year-old’s priceless face was captured on video as he reacted to hearing his father’s voice for the first time. Thanks to a microchip that University of North Carolina doctors implanted inside the child’s brain, Grayson Clamp–who was born deaf–was finally able to hear his father say “Daddy loves you.” He is the first child in the U.S. to receive the implant, which had previously only been approved for adults.

The young boy received the auditory brain stem implant as part of an ongoing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) trial. This was the second attempt at restoring Clamp’s hearing: Doctors had previously performed a standard cochlear implant, a device embedded into the side of his skull, but without the life-changing effect, since Clamp was born without a cochlear nerve, which helps the brain process the signals transmitted by the ears.

Although it is clear that Grayson hears something in the video, it’s not yet clear how much he senses. “We don’t know exactly what it’s like for him. We don’t know what he hears–if he hears everything we do. His brain is still trying organize itself to use sound,” Clamp’s mom tells local station WBTV.

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8 year-old Katelyn Delicato raises $10,000 for 21 year old paralyzed man Lukas Da Cruz's physical therapy sessions...

8 year-old Katelyn Delicato has raised $10,000 for a man who was shot and left paralyzed last year in Dallas, Texas. 

With profits from her lemonade stand, as well as donations from friends and family, Katelyn has been able to raise money for 21 year-old Luka Da Cruz's physical therapy sessions.

Katelyn started raising money for Da Cruz in February although she had never actually met him. This week, she finally got to meet the man she was helping.

Da Cruz was waiting for Katelyn at Project Walk Dallas, a non-profit dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with spinal cord injuries through exercise-based recovery programs. According to her mother, she was 'awestruck.'

Da Cruz handed Katelyn one of his soccer trophies he had earned before the unfortunate accident.

"I know that had to mean so much to him because it was something that he won doing something he loved that he can’t do now," said Katelyn's mother Shala. "The fact that he gave her that trophy, that was very telling of how he feels about her."

Griffin's Patch : Teenager Griffin Shapiro donates $5000 to purchase plants to feed those less fortunate...

Typical teen-aged boys spend their weekends hanging out with friends and playing video games. There's nothing wrong with that. But Griffin Shapiro set out on a different track when he ventured out to our orchard one Sunday afternoon in spring 2012 to get down in the dirt to help us plant more than 1,000 fruit trees - the benefits of which will stock our food pantry for DC's low-income families!

Griffin first got involved with the orchard through his synagogue, the Washington Hebrew Congregation. "There was a project to go out and plant Asian pear and apple trees. I decided to go, and I really liked it," he said. "After I did that, I really liked Bread for the City, so I wanted to do more."

Not long after helping us plant fruit trees at City Orchard, Griffin celebrated his Bar Mitzvah. And, again unlike most teens, Griffin decided to use his Bar Mitzvah gifts to help those less fortunate. Remembering his experience with City Orchard, he reached out to us and — on his own — sponsored a full crop of 2,300 strawberry bushes with a gift of $5,000. Planted just this past May, this collection of growing strawberries is now affectionately known as Griffin's Patch.

"Clients are really excited about this new addition," says Jeffrey Wankel, BFC's Urban Ag Specialist. "I mention strawberries, and their eyes light up." It will take a year for these strawberries to grow to full harvest potential, but what's great is that they're an everbearing variety, meaning that we'll be able to reap at least two full harvests per year as opposed to a single harvest in May.

Griffin's parents are so proud of their son for giving back. "My husband and I are thrilled that he has been able to volunteer and put in some of his own effort rather than just giving funds," says his mom, Nell. She added, "We really support the initiative, creativity, and healthful eating emphasis behind the notion of an orchard dedicated to helping those in need."

When Griffin returned to volunteer in the orchard this past spring, he was so excited to see the fruits of his labor literally. "I could actually see the stuff that I had planted and see how much it had grown," he said. "It's so cool to look at something that's real, that's there — something you can point to and say, ‘I made that happen.'

Tweens turning to fashion with Duct Tape and Sharpie Pens...

Sixth-grader B'Jon Fenwick-Self carries a wallet that was made to her specifications by a promising young designer—herself.

On a recent afternoon at the Georgetown public library in Washington, D.C., B'Jon layered strips of turquoise duct tape into a basic billfold design, then used a black marker to write her name in big, curly letters on the outside. "Keep out," she added inside.

B'Jon, 11 years old, also likes to make bracelets, decorate tote bags and tie-dye her own T-shirts. "I like to have different things," she said. "I don't like to be like anybody else."

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Some of Imara's many crafting supplies in her basement work room.

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A pair of jeans adorned with sparkles by Imara.

Crafting is going way beyond teachers' gifts and holiday ornaments to a whole new level of self-expression. Tweens and teens are using colored tape and glitter glue, fabric paint and Bubble Wrap to put a personal stamp on every inch of their lives, from school binders and lunchboxes to cellphones and skateboards. And after they have embellished their sneakers, glammed up bedroom walls and put 10 different designs on their fingernails, many flaunt their creations on the Internet.

Sergeant Dale Dick surprises his family at the Stanley Cup finals in Chicago when they see him standing next to Jim Cornelison during the national anthem...

Thanks to Daniel Paille's overtime goal, the majority of Chicago Blackhawks fans at the Saturday night's Game 2 left the United Center in a sour mood. But not so for the family of Sergeant Dale Dick.

Sgt. Dick had been away on deployment with the National Guard in Afghanistan for nine months, and nothing could spoil the evening for his wife and two children after they were surprised to see him standing next to Jim Cornelison during the national anthem.

What followed, as you can imagine, was a tearful and emotional reunion in the concourse.

Like many soldiers returning home from deployment, Sgt. Dick wanted to make the moment extra special for his family, so he reached out to the Blackhawks to see if they could make it happen. They did. His wife and children were called and invited to the game without being told what was in store for them.

Making the moment even more special: just before leaving for the Middle East, Sgt. Dick and his wife conceived a son. Saturday night marked the first time that he got to hold his newest child.

Appropriately, Father's Day was Sunday.

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