An off-duty NY firefighter named Joe Pendergast was on his way to work Friday morning when he saw an apartment building on fire. So he rushed in with no gear on, got a guy out, and helped save four French bulldogs…………A Colorado man is lucky to be alive, and lucky he likes jewelry. Someone SHOT…… read more »
A couple in Queens, New York were magnet fishing in a park last Friday and reeled in a safe filled with $100,000 in cash. They called the cops, but it sounds like no one’s reported the safe missing. So they get to keep the money, although it is quite degraded…………….. Twin brothers in Texas became…… read more »
An Australian doctor named Richard Scolyer announced he’s still cancer-free almost a year after he was diagnosed with a type of brain cancer that’s considered terminal. He’s one of the leading experts on skin cancer, and used an immunotherapy treatment that he helped pioneer for melanoma. Experts say it’s too early to tell, but it…… read more »
A school bus driver in Suffolk, Virginia named Ulysses Whitfield is finally retiring after shuttling kids back and forth from school for 70 years. He’s 85 and started at 15. You have to be at least 18 to drive a school bus in Virginia now, but requirements were different when he got hired in 1954. He…… read more »
A guy in England is in the news after he installed a “Little Free Library” outside his house, but for DVDs instead of books . . . and made it look like a tiny Blockbuster store………… A 70-year-old flamingo named Gertrude just laid her very first egg. The director of her nature preserve in England…… read more »
Heart canceled their European tour because Ann Wilson underwent a “time-sensitive but routine medical procedure”. (Full Story) Geezer Butler says he and Ozzy Osbourne have agreed on one final Black Sabbath show. There’s no word yet on Tony Iommi or Bill Ward. (Full Story) Here’s pro shot video of AC/DC performing in Seville, Spain,…… read more »
Earlier this month, police in Columbus, Georgia kicked down the door of a burning home . . . to save an 89-year-old woman inside. The department spotlighted one specific officer for his brave, quick-thinking in a social media post: Officer Michael Coley…………An Army vet in central Pennsylvania helped save the lives of two fishermen on Memorial…… read more »
It’s frustrating that a cure for cancer has been so elusive, but we have to celebrate every achievement along the way. And THIS could be big. Scientists have just identified 618 proteins in blood, which are linked to 19 types of the disease, including bowel, prostate, and breast cancers. This might make it possible to…… read more »
A couple with a combined age of over 200 just got married in Philadelphia. Bernie Littman is 100, and Marjorie Fiterman is 102. They met at their nursing home and they’ve been together about nine years. (Here’s a photo.)……………..A five-year-old kid near Jacksonville, Florida kept calling 911 asking for a pepperoni pizza. So some cops…… read more »
It’s very expensive to have kids in America, but Tennessee is offering some relief. Tennessee’s Medicaid program will start covering 100 diapers a month for newborns, infants, and one-year-olds. According to the National Diaper Bank Network, 92% of the families receiving diapers in Tennessee ARE working, and are still unable to afford enough of them. …… read more »