A video of a candy shop owner in Calgary is making the rounds after a social media do-gooder popped in for a treat. He wanted to buy something for $4 but claimed he only had $3.50. She said that was enough, but after he paid, he pulled out his wallet and tried to hand her…… read more »
Sam Perkins’ parents are in their 70s and live just outside of Asheville. After Helene, he hadn’t heard from them for 48 hours, so he filled a backpack with supplies and started the 11 mile, 3.5-hour trek to get to them. He said “I can’t tell you how many landslides and collapsed roads and trees…… read more »
Vets at Virginia Tech saved a three-month-old donkey named Harper that ate a towel. Pieces of it were blocking her digestive tract, but they did emergency surgery, and she’s back home on the farm….. Atrium Health owns a bunch of hospitals in North Carolina and Georgia, and recently announced they’re forgiving more than 11,000 people’s…… read more »
Here’s a social media trend we can get behind: People are leaving $100 gift cards in boxes of diapers at department stores, just to help out new parents…………. Clowns might seem creepy to some, but a study found they can actually help kids leave the hospital faster. The term for the kind that visit sick…… read more »
A fifth-grade teacher in Paw Paw, Michigan is in the news after posting a video about why he eats lunch with his students every day. He thinks connecting with them in a real way is the first step and everything else follows from that……….. A couple from northern California took their cat on a camping trip…… read more »
Rescuers in northern Canada found a six-year-old girl with autism who’d been missing for three days. There’s a video of her mom overcome with emotion as she carries her out of the woods. A ton of volunteers pitched in to help find her, and you can hear a bunch of them cheering in the background…………… A…… read more »
A cop near Detroit named Nicole Miron stopped an out-of-control truck by climbing in through the window of her patrol car. It was only going around five miles per hour, so her partner drove alongside it. It turned out the 63-year-old driver was having some sort of medical episode. Luckily, no one was hurt…………………. Two…… read more »
Some guy went viral on TikTok after dusting off his old Pokémon card collection and finding out it’s worth at least $5,000 and maybe more. He has his mom to thank for most of them. She kept buying them for him even as he got older and didn’t care anymore. She only stopped in 2017……………….…… read more »
It’s seemed like we might never win the war against opioid abuse, but a new report found fentanyl overdose deaths fell 10% over the past year. That’s based on initial numbers, but experts think it might be an even bigger drop than that once all the stats are in……… A fire department in Washington state…… read more »
Around a year ago, a woman near Toronto was devastated when a painting went missing from her wall. Her son threw a party, and one of his friends, who was probably drunk, walked off with it. Then they got tired of carrying it, left it on the street, and it vanished. It’s not worth much,…… read more »