A 17-year-old just became the first woman to reach Eagle Scout status in her area in New Mexico. Her name is Gabrielle Montoya . . . and her advice for other girls who hope to follow in her footsteps and earn Eagle Scout status is: “Just take the leap.”…………In July, MO teen Cody Trenkle crashed…… read more »
Animal rescuers on Long Island saved a deer that got seriously tangled up in a soccer net. The deer wasn’t too cooperative, and it took a while to cut all the netting away, but it eventually ran off into the woods. (Here’s the video.)……………. A kid near Philadelphia is in the news because he’s got…… read more »
Four organ donor recipients got together in Minnesota to pay tribute to the woman who saved their lives. 20-year-old Adelyn Miller died after a car crash in 2023 and was an organ donor. One of the people she saved wasn’t there for it, but her organs actually saved five lives……………..How’s this for a good day…… read more »
FL woman Danie Wright punched an alligator to save her shih tzu, Dax. They were walking along a stagnant creek behind her house when the 5-foot gator struck. She said, “I punched him in the eye enough that he kind of let go, he unclamped a little, and I pulled off, but his teeth dragged…… read more »
Hundreds of people named “Ryan” got together in New York this weekend for an event called Rytoberfest. They didn’t break the record for most people with the same name gathered in one spot, but they did raise a bunch for charity. The Ryan Callahan Foundation supports families of pediatric cancer patients………………… Just a reminder, you…… read more »
The World Athletics Championships in Tokyo had a nice moment Saturday. A steeplechase runner from Colombia fell and hurt himself in one of the qualifiers, and a runner from Belgium stopped to help him over the finish line. He actually turned around and jogged back to go get him. (Here’s the video.) ……………….16-year-old Connor Belanger…… read more »
A 67-year-old guy near Toronto just got his wallet back 51 years after losing it in high school. His old school was being renovated, and they found it behind a bathroom wall. He says it went missing in 1974. It still had his student I.D. and driver’s license in it, along with a 35-cent ticket…… read more »
A Texas man’s pet pigeon named Kevin is back home after going missing last weekend. The guy owns an auto shop, and brings the pigeon to work with him. A customer didn’t realize that Kevin . . . who’s blind . . . was in the bed of his truck when he picked it up. …… read more »
A Texas family is celebrating its first baby girl in over a century. Firefighter Michael Sherman and his wife Joacquia just found out they’re having a daughter. Michael’s side has only had boys for 108 years. The last Sherman girl was his great-great aunt Orah, born in 1917. So his whole family went nuts at…… read more »
Some hikers in Colorado got a nice reward for reaching the top of a trail near Aspen the other day. Some guy had hiked up with a 60-pound pack of ice cream sandwiches, and was there handing them out to people. No one knew who he was. He was wearing an ice cream costume, with…… read more »