Cathy Free

Oct 27, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Cathy Free

“I kept talking and reassuring them they were good dogs, and they could do it,” said Mitchell Rudy, who broke a Guinness World Record.

Oct 25, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Cathy Free

“It was sad to think of all he’d been through in his life, and he didn’t even have a headstone,” said Kendall Peruzzini, 13.

Oct 7, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Cathy Free

Chrystal Rinehold, left, with Shane Naidoo and the half marathon medal he cut in half and presented to her on Oct. 3. (Friends of Shane Naidoo)By Cathy FreeOctober 7, 2024 at 8:10 a.m. EDTEmergency room doctor Shane Naidoo was nearing the halfway mark of the New Jersey Half Marathon at Newport on Sept. 28 when a woman running in front of him collapsed on the greenway in Liberty State Park in Jersey City.

Oct 5, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Cathy Free

Sarah Elizabeth Hughes, right, with Sarah Marie Hughes (now Sarah Blundo), at their first meeting last month since a balloon connected their lives more than three decades ago. (Marisa Blundo)By Cathy FreeOctober 5, 2024 at 8:10 a.m. EDTSarah Elizabeth Hughes was 8 years old when she decided it would be fun to release a yellow balloon into the sky on a frosty December night.

Jul 12, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Cathy Free

“We just really hit it off,” said Dhilan Stanley, 13, who volunteers with Janine Oberrotman, 98, at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.