A band made up of teachers in New Jersey had a concert recently called “Teachers Rock 4 Teachers” to help educators 3,000 miles away. Proceeds went to teachers affected by the L.A. wildfires. The group in Jersey said they wanted to help, because so many people helped them in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy………….. Firefighters and…… read more »
A Bridgewater, New Jersey cop pulled a guy from a burning car on Wednesday, and the chest-cam footage is intense. It hit a tanker truck and burst into flames. The driver was unconscious, but will be okay. Police described the injuries as non-life-threatening……….Meanwhile, 45 minutes north in Garfield, New Jersey, cops saved a pink poodle…… read more »
CNN did a big profile on a college basketball player named Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel, who was born with one arm. She plays for Lesley University in Massachusetts. She got cut from her high school team her senior year, and says it just motivated her even more. She recently became the first female player with one arm…… read more »
An 18-year-old Utah kid named Luke Herbert had to quit baseball when he got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. But how’s this for switching gears? He just became the first kid from Utah to get a scholarship for cornhole. He’s playing for Winthrop University in South Carolina. They’re widely seen as having the best cornhole…… read more »
A school bus driver near Cleveland saved 15 kids on Thursday after their bus burst into flames. Officials said there was some kind of mechanical issue, and the fire started behind one of the back wheels. The whole bus was gutted by flames. But the driver got everyone out quickly, and no one was hurt……………………… read more »
Firefighters in East Texas saved a dog that fell down an old well under someone’s house. They think he might be a stray. If they can’t find his owner, one of the people who rescued him wants to adopt him…………. A guy from Nebraska got his high school class ring back 44 years after it…… read more »
70-year-old FL man Daniel Vallaire just got to meet up with the nurses and first responders who saved his life, but he also has Siri to thank. He had a stroke and spent 48 hours on his bathroom floor. He finally managed to crawl close enough to his phone to ask Siri to call his…… read more »
Here’s a unique “how’d you meet” story: A guy in China hit a woman with his car, and now they’re married. She was on her e-bike when he slammed into her in December of 2023. He broke her collarbone but visited her every day in the hospital, and they fell in love. They got married…… read more »
A 94-year-old woman from San Diego named Barbara Ribeiro had a pretty cool reunion this month. Back in 1961, she found a missing toddler at the bottom of a pool and saved the kid’s life. His name is Ben Colwell, and they hadn’t seen each other since it happened 64 years ago. He’s 66 now…… read more »
In apocalypse news: Asteroid 2024 YR4, deemed the riskiest asteroid on record last week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA estimates that the space rock has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth in December 2032, while the ESA has a similar risk assessment of 0.002%…………………… read more »