Count your blessings this Thanksgiving: A Seattle college kid managed to walk away unscathed after a huge tree fell on his car last week. He was driving home when it landed on top of his car and crushed it, but there was just enough room, and he wasn’t hurt. It took 90 minutes for firefighters…… read more »
A bunch of people in New Zealand banded together to save dozens of beached pilot whales on Sunday. They used sheets to lift them up and get them back in the water. Four didn’t make it, but more than 30 whales were saved……………. A British couple met while working at a grocery store in 2017,…… read more »
M.I.T. announced that starting next fall, they’re waiving tuition for families that make less than $200,000 a year. They say that includes around 80% of incoming students. Normal tuition is around $60,000 a year………….. Iowa-based grocery store chain Hy-Vee announced it’s scaling back and getting rid of their self-checkout machines at a bunch of locations. …… read more »
A 17-year-old in California named Sophia Park just became the youngest person to pass the state’s bar exam. She got her law degree this year after enrolling in law school at 13. She also earned some serious bragging rights, because the record used to belong to her brother, Peter, who passed the bar a year…… read more »
OR man Ken Reese is pushing 70, but one of his kidneys just turned 100. His mom Doris gave it to him in 1975 when he was battling kidney disease. He likes to say she gave him life twice . . . once when he was born, and again with the kidney. Donating her kidney…… read more »
Firefighters in Colorado used the jaws of life to save a stray kitten trapped in a dumpster. It was stuck in the bottom with its head sticking out through a tiny hole. The kitten’s fine. An animal shelter took it in…………..In bigger cat news: First responders in Southern California rescued a cat that got chased…… read more »
Firefighters near Fort Worth, Texas recently pulled a two-year-old kid from a burning building, and there’s chest-cam footage of the whole thing. He was trapped on the second floor of an apartment complex, and they had to go in through a window. His mom got emotional talking about it. She said firefighters don’t get enough…… read more »
One of the biggest alcohol companies in Northern Ireland is stepping up to prevent people from driving drunk over the holidays. Starting this week, designated drivers will be able to step up to a bar and get a non-alcoholic beer for free. They just have to flash their car keys………….. A couple sailing off the…… read more »
A coyote that had a plastic jug stuck over its head for at least a week was rescued by members of the public in Illinois. She was scared and dehydrated but is now recovering at a wildlife rescue…………..Speaking of rescues, a miniature horse named Butter fell 15 feet down a well in Southern California recently,…… read more »
Someone in Florida saw a possum spinning around in circles for hours and thought he was injured. But a wildlife rescue place took him in and realized he just had a really bad ear infection. It basically gave him vertigo. They gave him some antibiotics, and he’s doing much better. They’re planning to release him…… read more »