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While stories of online bullying make headlines almost weekly, some teens are combating the cyber abuse by using social media to encourage their peers and highlight others' strengths.

This summer, high-school football captain Kevin Curwick anonymously started targeting bullied teens with kindness on Twitter.

And now another student's kind tweets are in the news.

In late 2011, Jeremiah Anthony, an Iowa City teen, read a story about cyber-bullying and decided to take action. He created a Twitter account to compliment his peers at West High School.

Do you remember the recent publicity involving waiters or waitresses writing things on patrons checks? Like the bartender who found himself in hot water for referring to customers as “fat chicks” on a bill and a pizza employee who wrote something slang on an asian womans receipt about her eyes!

I bring this up because there’s been more writing...

A toddler is safe, and his father is in police custody, after a statewide Amber Alert.

The alert was canceled late Wednesday afternoon, when a few quick-thinking truck drivers spotted the pair on Interstate 24.

It started in Houston County, where authorities say 23-year-old Austin Whitehead got into an argument with his wife that turned physical.

Then he took their two-year-old son, traveling more than 150 miles, before being stopped in Marion County.

My brother told me a story last night that just shocked me! It made me wonder how often this happens at the workplace, because you know it does!

He is a delivery guy for Exide Battery. He loads up the batteries into his truck and then heads out and delivers to their retailers. And he is up EARLY, and many times he does not get back until 9 or so at night.