Indiana town honors longtime gravedigger who lifts people up
Turns out that the man who lifts up the people of Galveston is the same man who puts them down.
On the Road
7th grader who took the wheel of a school bus called "a hero"
Not having a cell phone helped seventh grader Dillon Reeves make a stunning rescue.
A clerk created art on billing statements to help a patient heal
Every month during her physical therapy, Melody Morrow's billing statement arrived in the mail with a new drawing.
Indiana nurse adopts teen mother and her triplets
Katrina Mullen has a reputation for going above and beyond. But the lengths she went to for a set of triplets and their 14-year-old mother was beyond compare.
Wrongfully convicted man freed after nearly 3 decades meets longtime pen pal
Lamar Johnson and Ginny Schrappen struck up a fast friendship and corresponded constantly for decades.
Daughter secretly gave an organ to her father as an anonymous donor
When John Ivanowski's kidney began to fail, his daughter was the best source of a transplant, but he didn't want to take an organ from her.
Maine school custodian helps turn chess team into a real-life "Queen's Gambit"
For the students at Weatherbee Elementary, the only thing more unlikely than their success as state chess champions, is where they found it: in the broom closet.
Teens help seniors learn how to use technology — and make friends along the way
Residents of a senior living center had trouble working their cell phones until a group of computer savvy Gen-Zers came up with a plan to save the day.
Referee who survived heart attack reunites with player who saved him
John Sculli, a basketball referee, was officiating a semi-pro game when he collapsed.
Detroit artist wrongfully imprisoned for decades becomes unlikely art phenom
Richard Phillips was arrested for murder in 1971 and exonerated in 2018 after 46 years of wrongful incarceration.
More From CBS Evening News
When grocery stores reject imperfect produce, this company steps in
More than 20 billion pounds of produce are rejected by U.S. grocery stores each year.
Holiday cookie box deliveries make spirits bright
The most important ingredient in Christmas cookies isn't the flour or the sugar -- it's the love and care that go into baking them. Major Garrett has more.
As beef prices rise, small butcher shops adapt to changing demand
With higher prices for beef, customers are looking for alternatives.
9-year-old delivers teddy bears to hospital kids
For more than a century, young kids have awakened on Christmas morning to find a teddy bear waiting for them under the tree. That gave one child an idea: getting teddy bears and the comfort they bring to the children who need them most. Tom Hanson has the story.
The business turning rejected produce into savings
Abhi Ramesh launched Misfits Market in 2018, an online grocery store that buys rejected produce from farmers and packages it for sale across the country. Skyler Henry reports.