Larry Swilling is on a month's-long quest: He's been searching for a kidney for his wife.

The 78-year-old, who has been  looking for a compatible kidney donor for 76-year-old Jimmie Sue since last September, has caught the attention of the Web.

But almost a year later, and despite lots of good will and plenty of offers from around the globe, he’s still searching for a match.

It all started when Jimmie Sue Swilling, who was born with only one of the vital organ, began to experience kidney failure.

Larry Swilling, who has been married to his wife for 57 years, told CBS News last year that his wife is “my heart,” and would not accept the two-to-three-year long waiting list from deceased donors.

Neither Larry nor other family members are suitable matches, which depends on blood and tissue compatibility, among other things.

There is no waiting list for someone who offers to donate their kidney specifically to that person, as long as it’s compatible.

Larry Swilling began a lonely quest to

For Spanish businessman Paco Santos, the safest place to keep money is still under a mattress—or rather, inside it.

Santos, according to NPR, who was laid off from Spain’s largest mattress manufacturer three years ago, is the inventor of the Caja de ahorros Micolchon, or “My Mattress Safe." It's a plush, padded mattress with a keypad-equipped, armored safe built into the side.

After being contacted by NPR, Santos said the mattress was no joke. "We’re completely serious,” he said. “And we’ve sold many, many of these mattresses.”

According to NPR, My Mattress Safe sells for more than $1,100. Santos said the investment was worth it: “We’ve got big economic problems in Spain, and people have really lost their confidence in banks."

In a 59-second video that Santos made with the help of a son who works in PR, the inventor explains that his company wants to “reinvent the traditional method of saving money.”

Cary Collings holds up his winnings. (Photo via Facebook)

It's better to be lucky than good. Just ask Cary Collings: He recently found himself with a high-scoring scratch-off ticket, and then, when he bought another, he had one worth even more—all in the same 24-hour period.

According to the Facebook page for Washington's Lottery, Collings' day started off on the right note when he won the $55,555 prize on a scratch-off ticket. Not a bad day's work, but Collings wasn't finished. On his way to cash in his ticket, he stopped at a store to buy some more. One of them ended up being worth $200,000.

Q13Fox.com reported that Collings, who lives in Puyallup, Wash., plans to use some of his winnings to pay off debts. He said he is undecided on what to do with the rest of his windfall but has no plans to quit his job.

While Collings' feat is extremely rare, he isn't the first person to win big more than once. Earlier this year, Stephen and Terri Weaver of Arkansas won a $1 million jackpot. Then, later that same weekend, they won an additional $50,000,

Click map to enlarge (John Nelson/IDV Solutions)

A series of stunning heat maps—created by a man who's probably a little better with Excel than you are—shows the places in America most prone to natural disasters.

John Nelson, a mapping manager for IDV Solutions, created U.S. maps of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires using publicly available data and Excel—a process he describes as "the kitchen-sink school of thematic mapping."

Nelson's map of wildfires tracks hot spots since 2001, while his tornado travel map tracks the direction tornadoes have traveled in the U.S. over the past 63 years. An updated version of that map includes the deadly EF-5 tornado that killed 22 people in Moore, Okla., last month, while a new version of a map tracking hurricanes and tropical storms since 1951 includes Superstorm Sandy.

The earthquake map, using data culled from the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of California, Berkeley, shows the location of all major seismic activity since 1898.

Other maps posted on the company's

A pair of California teens were rescued by helicopter from atop an 8,600-foot cliff after they became stranded and were unable to climb down, CNN reports.

The California Highway Patrol dispatched a helicopter and a small plane to retrieve them. With winds gusting up to 30 mph and the teenage boys, 16 and 17, perched on a narrow edge of the cliff, the rescue wasn't simple.

The rescuers lowered harnesses and barked instructions through a loudspeaker. One at a time, the two teens were brought to safety in a scene that resembled a Hollywood blockbuster.

The pilot told CNN that it took four passes.

The teens had been hiking on a family vacation in the Sierra Buttes in Northern California. After the rescue, the teens told reporters they thought they'd be able to walk across the ridge once they reached the top.

"When we got up there and saw the other side, it was heartbreaking," said Austin Deschler, one of the rescued teens.

Earlier this year, authorities rescued another pair of teens from

The FBI and the New York City Police Department announced on Tuesday an award of up to $65,000 for information leading to the identification and arrest of the suspect or suspects behind the unsolved 2008 bombing of the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times Square.

Additionally, the FBI released videos of the key suspect and a photo of the explosive device used in the bombing. In the footage the suspect appears to be working alone, but the FBI, in its press release announcing the reward, noted that “he or she may have had a lookout or surveillance team of as many as five other individuals in Times Square at the time of the attack."

On March 6, 2008, the unknown individual placed a small bomb in front of the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times Square. Security videos from the area show the bomber fleeing the scene on a bicycle, which was later recovered in a dumpster some seven blocks away near Madison Avenue and 38th Street.

“Someone, somewhere knows something

Not all bears are out to maul you. Some just want to say hello.

A hunter learned that firsthand while sitting high up in a tree in the forest. A bear approached the tree, apparently spotted the hunter and then began to climb.

We're not experts, but we'd wager that most of the time when a bear meets an armed hunter in the woods, somebody's going to get hurt.

Not so this time. The bear climbed the tree, stuck its nose into the hunter's perch, and then turned around and, we presume, trotted off to find another (unoccupied) tree in which to chill out.

The charming encounter reminded us of another unexpected meet-and-greet from earlier this month, when a baby sea lion hopped aboard a fishing boat and snuggled up to fisherman J.R. Gilkinson.

The man who engraved former New York City Mayor Ed Koch's tombstone has apologized for putting on the wrong birth date.

Tommy Flynn, the owner of Flynn Funeral and Cremation Memorial Services, told NBC's New York affiliate that he inadvertently listed Koch's birth year as 1942 instead of 1924. Flynn says he feels "terrible" and has vowed to correct the grave error, which was discovered over the weekend.

Koch, 88, died in February of congestive heart failure. He was buried in Trinity Church cemetery in Manhattan.

According to Koch's former Chief of Staff Diane Coffey, the Democratic mayor, preparing for his death in the 1980s, had planned "every detail of [his] burial," including the headstone.

Koch, the city's mayor from 1978 to 1989, bought the plot in the New York Washington Heights neighborhood in 2008. "I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone," he said at the time.

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According to NBC 4, Koch