In Cincinnati, Ohio, a family dog named Gertie fell down a crevice, and then spent FIVE DAYS wedged between two concrete walls along a garage. So, on Sunday, firefighters showed up, and used a SLEDGEHAMMER to smash a hole in the wall to free Gertie. (Here’s video of the rescue.)…………..An 83-year-old grandmother in Iowa named “Grandma Bette” reads children’s…… read more »
Help clean up NC! WITN reports that NCDOT crews, contractors and volunteers have cleaned up more than 8 million pounds of roadside trash this year across the state – at this rate, the state will surpass the 10.5-million-pound record from 2019. The 2021 Fall Litter Sweep is a statewide roadside litter removal initiative, and residents throughout North Carolina can volunteer to…… read more »
AC/DC has launched a new line of clothing for kids on their website. ROBBY STEINHARDT of KANSAS has passed away at the age of 71 after a brief illness. He was a founding member of the band – violinist and vocaliist during their heyday, although he had retired from the group in 2006. ROBERT PLANT says…… read more »
A 28-year-old man jumped into the Hudson River in New York on Saturday to save his dog from drowning. He did, but he ALSO needed to be saved. The local authorities fished him out, and brought both him AND his dog safely to shore…………….The FDA approved a lymphoma treatment in dogs last Thursday. The disease affects fewer than 70,000 dogs…… read more »
If You Dig Blues, Funk, Soul, and the Roots of Rock… we’re talking Clapton, Zeppelin, Jimi, or SRV… fact of the matter is, as Chuck D eloquently put it when Public Enemy was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, “We all come from the damn Blues…” Prior to receiving their induction in…… read more »
A dad in China never stopped searching for his son, who was kidnapped in 1997. And he just found him 24 years later. A DNA test proved it’s his son, and photos of their reunion are going viral.………. A cop in Georgia recently lost his wedding ring while swimming at a state park in Florida, and left without finding it. But a…… read more »
Two AC/DC officially licensed beers will be available at select retailers soon: AC/DC PWR UP Juicy IPA and AC/DC TNT Double IPA. Here’s JACK RUSSELL’s GREAT WHITE covering LED ZEPPELIN for Great Zeppelin II: A Tribute To Led Zeppelin, which will be out on August 13. “Amazing Journey: The Story Of The Who”, the career spanning documentary is available to stream exclusively on The Coda Collection via Amazon Prime. One of…… read more »
A school bus driver in Italy was going through a tunnel when his bus caught FIRE. But he got all 25 kids off before the whole bus went up, so everyone survived.………. Microsoft just announced it’s giving its employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus. And in other ‘nice boss’ news, a company in Toronto has a new policy that gives…… read more »
About 700 people live on a small island off the coast of Maine. And the high school’s graduating class was only 13 students this year, who were SUPPOSED to go on a big senior trip. But they couldn’t because of the pandemic. So instead, they decided to take the $8,000 they raised for it, and give it all to…… read more »
In a single day last week, over a million volunteers in India helped plant more than 250 million new trees………..There’s a 75-year-old woman in Texas named Peggy Garrison who’s got pancreatic cancer. And she obsessed with flamingos. So her family got in touch with the San Antonio Zoo . . . and they surprised her by bringing a…… read more »