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 »
Planet Fitness announced its annual High School Summer Pass program was a huge success again. For June, July, and August, all high-schoolers could show up and work out for free. They say almost three million kids took advantage of it this summer, logging more than 12 million workout sessions……… For 30 years, three people in…… read more »
A family in Colorado found their missing cat almost two months after he went missing. His name is Drifter. It turned out he’d been stuck in a sewer the whole time. He lost more than half his body weight, but he’ll be fine………. A dog was seen wandering Vermont for a week with a bucket-like…… read more »
An EDM show in Santa Barbara, California called the Lucidity festival cancelled its 2024 event late last month and did NOT offer refunds. Organizers claim they just don’t have the money. But how cool is this? A totally different EDM festival with no connection announced THEY’RE honoring the tickets. The Same Same But Different festival…… read more »
According to research, “Dungeons & Dragons” and other tabletop role-playing games can help autistic players in social interactions. Among other things, “D&D” helped boost autistic players’ confidence, “giving them a strong sense of kinship or belonging.”……………… A cop in Oregon adopted a 15-week-old kitten after two search-and-rescue team members found it hiding in the wheel…… read more »