RARITAN TWP. — Ten-year-old David Heard, who set a goal of gathering 220,000 origami paper cranes to inspire hope in pediatric cancer patients, died yesterday. He was the son of Susan and Hunterdon ...

Embarking on a quest to make 1,000 cranes dedicated to a friend’s healing, Liz Soares finds calm and good vibes in the process. My path to creating 1,000 origami cranes began in an unlikely place: a ...

Elementary School with boxes hoisted proudly above their heads. Inside were 1,000 paper cranes the students worked tediously to create, sacrificing recess and after-school time for months to craft ...

BRIDGEPORT -- Burroughs & Saden children's librarian Sharon Breslow had a mission Wednesday. She called to passing people walking up and down the staircase. "Come sit," she said. Breslow sat behind a ...

TOKYO — The family of a girl who folded paper cranes in hopes of surviving leukemia after the 1945 Hiroshima bombing hopes to add her story to UNESCO’s world memory program. Yuji Sasaki, whose aunt ...

A little girl in Japan once believed paper cranes can grant her a wish. The story of Sadako Sasaki, who was affected by the Hiroshima Nagasaki bombings, and her prayer cranes, continues to touch ...

Delaney Oblander and Fallon Sunrhodes, both 9, sat at a table in a Highland Elementary classroom with about a dozen other kids after school, carefully folding small squares of paper into origami ...

Need a pick-me-up this morning? Know that, somewhere in the world, there are origami cranes capable of performing synchronized dance numbers across an electromagnetic stage, and that life is kind of ...