On October 7, 2001, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks. Captain Ahmad Khalid Noori served as an ...

Pam Brown Bryant, the main dance coordinator for the hit show Soul Train who worked in that role for the program's entire 35 ...

Paul Henry was an enthusiastic, funny, and affectionate father who loved quality time with his daughter Alexia – whether singing in the car or their weekend movie marathons. But on June 12, 2016, when ...

Some things you just have to learn on the job. This week, stories from funeral directors, garbage collectors, firefighters, and Golden Gate Bridge ironworkers about how their occupations challenged ...

This is the story of an April Fools’ prank involving two iconic American Bells. One is the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia; the other is the fast food chain, Taco Bell. And the prank made national news.

John Marboe is known to many as Reverend Doctor Garbage Man. He’s a Lutheran pastor, a professor, and a garbage hauler. Growing up in Alexandria, Minnesota, he admired his local garbage man. In fact, ...

Dan Bigley’s life was transformed in 2003 when he was mauled by a grizzly bear while fishing on Alaska’s Kenai River. He was lucky to survive, but he didn’t feel that way. He emerged from a 12-day ...

As a kid growing up in the late 1950s, Sandra Bears used to sit at the top of her basement steps, and watch her older brother’s singing group practice. She and her girlfriends decided they wanted to ...

StoryCorps’ annual Gala is an evening of storytelling, connection, and celebration—and a key fundraising event in support of our mission: to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity ...

On March 13th, 1964, one of one of the most infamous crimes in American history occurred in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York. At around 3 AM, 28-year-old Catherine “Kitty” Genovese was ...

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