It’s World Compliment Day, so feel free to hand out a little unsolicited praise. (For example . . . tell a stranger they’ve got a nice butt. Can’t possibly backfire. No, on second thought, don’t do that. Just tell them they’re awesome.)…………..A guy in California recently fell off his boat near Santa Barbara at night,…… read more »
A woman in Maryland wrecked her car this month, and luckily escaped injury, but her car had to be towed away. She decided to use the license plate numbers to play the lottery, and ended up winning $25,000…………………..A State Trooper in Michigan rescued a deer that got its leg hung up on a fence. He spoke…… read more »
On Saturday February 19th, WSFL travelled to the marker in Eureka chosen to honor those lost in the B-52 Nuclear Mishap, which was erected by the North Carolina Office of Archives and history in 2012. The Marker is at the intersection of West Main St. & North Church St. According to The Historical Maker Database,…… read more »
What’s with all the moose-on-ice stories right now? There was one last week about a group of loggers in Canada who saved a moose that fell through a frozen lake. Now a group of friends in Alaska just saved a moose that got stuck in a frozen creek, by shoveling the snow and ice out…… read more »
Nancy Wilson is going on tour as Nancy Wilson’s Heart . . . without her sister Ann. Her lead singer will be Kimberly Nichole, a former finalist on “The Voice”. It sounds like there might still be some tension between Ann and Nancy from their falling out in 2016. Nancy says Heart was offered a…… read more »
The line of cars and people was astonishing for the Empty Bowls Fundraiser on Thursday, 2/24 at Temple Church in New Bern. Empty Bowls is a partnership between Religious Community Services and Craven Arts Council and Gallery. These events raise money for local stop-hunger and arts programing in Craven County by selling tickets for Empty…… read more »
(photo credit: Benaroya Hall, YouTube) Mark Lanegan, a singer for Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age and an integral part of the 1980s and 1990s grunge scene in the Pacific Northwest, died on Tuesday at his home in Killarney, Ireland. He was 57. Eddie Vedder paid tribute to him during last Tuesday night’s…… read more »
A guy in Pennsylvania recently saved his neighbors from a fire. They were trapped upstairs, so he grabbed a ladder . . . crawled under the smoke . . . and pulled a woman out. Then he went back in to get her baby . . . went in a third time to save another…… read more »
According to a new study, Viagra can be a promising treatment for dogs with a fatal eating disorder. The rare condition causes an enlargement of the esophagus, where it won’t move food to the stomach…………….An Instacart worker from Georgia named Jessica Higgs is being credited with saving an older man a few weeks ago. She…… read more »
A dog was reunited with her family in California this month, after being missing for 12 YEARS. Her name is Zoey, she’s 13 now, and she’d been dropped out on a rural property. Someone saw her, and took her to a vet. They scanned her microchip, and discovered that she’d been reported missing in 2010 .…… read more »