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HeroesFreedom Alliance and U.S. Bank gave Marine veteran Dustin Gabehart, who coaches football at La Junta High, a new car that was already paid off. His children had not been told.
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CommunityAlexander Reis set a goal of 500 pairs for his Eagle Scout project and finished with 3,673. The Lions Club will send them to people who need them, and he also held a community health fair.
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AnimalsOn his 15th birthday, Evergreen Park sophomore Daniel Kirincic found a lost cockatiel on the track bleachers. It matched a bird he had painted the year before, and the owner let him keep it.
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HeroesDream Flights gave three residents of Beò of Chattanooga free rides in a restored biplane. Air Force veteran Joe DePrimo, 79, flew after a stroke that left him paralyzed on one side.
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CommunityHomeless No More broke ground on Grand Village, a $12.8 million mixed-income rental project on the old Grand Motel site, with homes for families with children and a community center. Nobody has moved in yet.
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Health & TechIn an 80-week trial of 1,152 adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes, the highest dose of the experimental drug retatrutide cut weight more than placebo and lowered HbA1c. It is not FDA-approved.
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AnimalsJean Quade turned a weedy back lot on Avenel Avenue into pollinator habitat large enough to be certified as a Monarch Waystation. Neighbors who had not met before now garden there together.
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CommunityDream On 3 and the University of Nebraska Collegiate Dream team gave Sam, who has Down syndrome and other health conditions, a three-day visit with on-field passes during Big Noon Kickoff weekend.
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CommunityGroundworks volunteers and the Roc Solid Foundation built a backyard playset for 8-year-old Chase, who is being treated for leukemia, and hid Spider-Man gifts in it for his family to find between appointments.
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CommunityMount Calvary Lutheran Church has served more than 65,000 free community meals since 2012, about 110 every Wednesday, with a rotating crew of 20 to 30 volunteers cooking and serving.
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CommunityAuburn High seniors Pearl Simmons and A.K. Jackson started Touchdowns for Diabetes. Neighbors can pledge money for each touchdown or interception, and the gifts stay with a local diabetes center.
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CommunityOrange County's 58th Pumpkin Festival was free to enter, and for the fifth year children could get bracelets for the rides. Organizer Dustin Farris said a local carnival is the big trip many kids get.
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CommunityKingsford Middle School set out to raise $500 for the Lake Antoine playground and finished with more than $8,000. With other gifts, the campaign passed its $40,000 goal.
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CommunityAssociates from the Arden Lowe's put up money and labor to repaint the playground fence and lay patio pavers under a shelter at the Salvation Army's West Asheville community center.
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CommunityThe Ottertail Lions Club spent about a year collecting 1,000 pounds of plastic film for Trex's recycling program and gave the resulting bench to the Fergus Falls Veterans Home, its third bench through that partnership.
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HeroesProspect Park Borough named good Samaritans outstanding citizens after they lifted a Volkswagen Beetle off a woman pinned in a crash with an e-bike. She was taken to a hospital with a chest injury.
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CommunityAlly Financial volunteers worked with students at Neinas Dual Language Learning Academy to redo the community garden, pack hundreds of snack packs, and make over the teachers' lounge.
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CommunityFree Guitars for Kids is set to give 14 students at enCircle's Minnick School a guitar, a gig bag, a tuner, and a strap, plus online lessons. The giveaway had not happened yet when the story was published.
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CommunityAndy and Amy Corbin's 2,224-pound pumpkin set a new Wyoming record and put them in the 2,200 Pound Club, a mark fewer than 50 growers have reached. It grew in a patch thick with dandelions.
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CommunityErik Chavarria of Hobbs CTECH won $75,000 from Harbor Freight Tools for Schools: $50,000 for his construction program and $25,000 for him.
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HeroesOfficer Carston Addison, on the force less than a year, dropped his gear and swam out to bring a 12-year-old boy to shore. Chief Mario Knapp gave him a special life-saving award.
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CommunityKori Cannon has taught multilingual kindergartners from 22 countries over 16 years at Westgate Elementary. She was named State Teacher of the Year in Olympia and moves on to the national competition.
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CommunityChilaka Ugobi of Our Redeemer's Christian School, a two-time state spelling bee champion, competes Oct. 14 for the national title and a $100,000 education savings plan. His topic is adult mental-health access.
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HeroesTerry Berggren holds babies in Overland Park Regional Hospital's Warm Arms program when families cannot be there. The hospital gave him its Humanitarian Award.
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CommunityOn Oct. 10, about 160 bands played on roughly 50 porches, stoops, and yards across Capitol Hill, Hill East, Lincoln Park, and Barracks Row. Neighbors put the free festival together in about two months.
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ScienceAfter four Klamath River dams were removed in 2024, sonar counts recorded 7,742 Chinook passing the former dam sites that fall and more than 13,000 in 2025. The fish spread through 214 miles blocked for about a century.
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CommunityBradshaw, Iaeger, Coalfield, and Southside K-8 received centers with 3D printers, robots, and circuit kits from the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation and TC Energy, the first in the state.
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AnimalsLaborer Bobby Silva, 26, of Waterford, scooped up a 5-week-old kitten that had fallen about 120 feet into the Thames. She had no broken bones, and he adopted her and named her Molly.
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AnimalsKimber, 11, and her owner Eric Schuman, a 78-year-old retired physician associate, have spent about five years as a pet-therapy team comforting patients, often starting shifts in the ER.
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HeroesSt. Xavier senior Wyatt Anderson fractured his spine last November. On Sunday he ran the Chicago Marathon with his brother in 3:56:28, and the two raised more than $22,000 for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
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HeroesBodycam shows officers running up to an Astoria apartment and giving CPR to a baby boy who had stopped breathing until he breathed again. He was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell in stable condition.
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CommunityIndividual donors beat the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum's $25,000 Children's Library goal in a few months, and the Friends added $3,000. The money is for new nonfiction, a sensory-friendly space, and an outdoor playscape.
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Health & TechZanvastro (zilganersen) is approved for a rare, often fatal brain disorder. In a controlled trial, treated patients 5 and older with walking trouble were faster at 61 weeks, and treated 2- to 4-year-olds gained motor skills while untreated children declined. It is not a cure.
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CommunityAt the hospital's annual reunion, Tasneem Hamdan brought her nearly 4-year-old twins back to the nurses who cared for them. One twin weighed 2 pounds, 2 ounces at birth. Their care led her to nursing school.
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CommunityUniversity of Kentucky engineering students adapted a ball cannon for 16-year-old Sam Roberts, who has 4H leukodystrophy. His first passes flew while friends cheered, and he will use it with teammates this fall.
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CommunityThe Fond du Lac Band, Duluth, the Minnesota DNR, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held a low-intensity burn on 17 acres, the first there in 180 years.
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HeroesJenks West Elementary nurse Chelsea Franklin held pressure on Dennis Adams's wound after he fainted outside the stadium, and stayed until paramedics arrived.
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HeroesNatalie Martinez's nonprofit hands out backpacks, clothes, prom attire, and holiday toys without an income test. This year's back-to-school event alone included 375 backpacks.
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AnimalsThe Ohio Bird Sanctuary released a young eagle at Clear Fork Conservation Area after a spinal fracture from a car strike. The sanctuary handles about 200 releases a year.
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CommunityRon Wallace of Greene won the Southern New England Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Warren. His pumpkin beat the previous world record by nearly 300 pounds, pending certification.
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HeroesMartin County employee Amy Offenbach and a friend paddled out at an unguarded beach in Jensen Beach and brought all three girls to shore.
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AnimalsThe La Crosse County American Legion and local groups paid to train Gilby for veteran Nicole Rogich. The dog is named for Air Force veteran James Gilbertson.
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HeroesBagpipes and a crowd met Last Frontier Honor Flight veterans in Anchorage after a free trip to war memorials in Washington, D.C.
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CommunityFranklin Alternative School staff and students trained three times a week, and 30 of them finished Moxie's Memorial 5K for the nonprofit that provided Luna.
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CommunityThe Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust closed Eagle County Open Space's largest conservation easement, keeping Susan Nottingham's family ranch undeveloped.
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CommunityAurora Public Schools, the Community College of Aurora, and UCHealth are building a magnet school with nursing, imaging, and respiratory-therapy pathways. It opens in August 2027.
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CommunityBruins players made their annual Halloween visit to patients at Boston Children's Hospital, dressed as characters from Toy Story.
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CommunityAhead of their Oct. 3 game, Cougs Care and TCU supporters gathered about 650 books plus cash and supplies for Literacy United, which teaches children who struggle with reading.
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CommunityThe Family Support Center gave out free winter coats and Halloween costumes for children from newborns to teens, and plans another costume giveaway on October 21.
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AnimalsTwo young males, Mkuu and Viazi, arrived from Tampa under a Species Survival Plan. They are the first southern white rhinos at the zoo in 130 years.
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AnimalsArizona Game and Fish set 18 captive-bred ferrets loose near Seligman and six more at Garland Prairie. The same day, Phoenix Zoo announced a record 34 kits.
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CommunityEvening in the End Zone, held at Atlanta's College Football Hall of Fame, funds eyeglasses and eye surgeries. Delta and Kia added surprise gifts at the end of the night.
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CommunityAt Saturday's race, finishers included a runner who had lost 144 pounds, a breast cancer survivor, and a new mother on her first marathon.
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CommunityThe Restaurant Meals Program lets eligible older adults, people with disabilities, their spouses, and people experiencing homelessness buy prepared food with a Link card.
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CommunityNearly 100 high school robotics students from nine schools, led by Barstow's FRC Team 1939, modified seven toy cars at Variety KC's Go Baby Go build so toddlers with mobility challenges can drive and play.
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CommunityFor citations issued from October 1 through November 13, the city accepts an unwrapped toy worth the fine. The toys go to families moving into permanent housing.
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AnimalsBoots, a relative of the department's K-9 Watson, will work with the resource officer in the Lin-Wood Public Schools.
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CommunityThe Lansing chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace held a build day in Haslett. The chapter makes nearly 1,000 beds a year and still has a wait list of 100 to 200 families.
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ScienceThe federal abandoned-mine program honored Montana for a plant that treats about 150 gallons a minute of acid drainage that once sent hundreds of pounds of metals into the creek each day.
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CommunityCASA Encore's dance and banner competition funds volunteer advocates for children in foster care in three north Mississippi counties. Alpha Omicron Pi won for a third year.
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CommunityThe state is spending more than $5.8 million to buy development rights on 22 farms in 14 counties, including a Bucks County farm that dates to 1765.
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AnimalsAbout two dozen Bitty Kitty Brigade fosters explored the Sea Life aquarium, a yearly outing that helps socialize them for adoption.
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AnimalsVolunteers at the therapeutic riding nonprofit help riders, including brothers Noah and Elijah, build core strength and confidence.
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CommunityFamilies, including first-timers with a 7-month-old, gathered in Lake Charles to celebrate their children through the Down Syndrome Association of Southwest Louisiana.
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CommunityHundreds walked with self-advocates with Down syndrome, then danced at the Bandstand while students lined the boards to cheer.
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Health & TechOn October 9 the FDA approved Teva's Weltruza, a long-acting injection for adults with schizophrenia. Teva expects a U.S. launch within weeks. It is not a cure.
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CommunityMilo, wiliwili, a Moreton Bay fig, and other trees went in at Halewikio Place, the first step toward Ke Ola O ʻAiea ʻOhana Park, with a $34,000 urban-forestry grant.
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CommunitySalt Lake City Public Lands, University of Utah volunteers, and a corrections greenhouse program are replanting the Bonneville Fire foothills to hold the slopes.
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CommunityFirst Hawaiian Bank volunteers joined Mālama Maunalua at Kuliʻouʻou Beach Park. The bank's volunteers have now hauled out more than 4.2 million pounds of invasive algae over time.
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CommunityTeam Buche Cares received more than 35,000 pounds of pork spare ribs from the South Dakota Farmers Union and will send them statewide, including to all nine reservations.
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CommunityAn anonymous donation and a long land lease from New Heights Church will let the nonprofit build short-term housing in Fayetteville for young adults in crisis.
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CommunityPublix Super Market Charities' donation also buys an electric forklift and warehouse upgrades for the food bank serving 10 coastal South Carolina counties.
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HeroesLeah Weber, 10, won an Idaho Lottery contest at a University of Idaho game and donated all of it to Fernan STEM Academy for school lunch.
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HeroesA gardener working in the yard saw the flames and rang the doorbell with a neighbor. The woman got out with her two dogs, and he held the fire back with a garden hose until firefighters arrived. No one was hurt.
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HeroesSgt. Alex Wood crawled through a burning trailer near Roanoke Rapids, found the resident, and pulled him out. The man is stable.
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HeroesJacob Cyprys, who turns 12 on October 11, has raised $1,780 for the HoBOOken 5K and is asking neighbors for $12 each.
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CommunitySince 2019, Melrose Music City Chick-fil-A has frozen surplus food for the Nashville Rescue Mission and has hired people from the mission's recovery program.
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AnimalsFound injured at Lunken Airport in June, the two-year-old eagle was rehabilitated by Milford's Raptor Inc. and released, the group's second eagle release this year.
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AnimalsSummit County-based C-RAD, which trains canine avalanche teams across the West, received the ASPCA's 2026 Henry Bergh Award in New York.
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CommunityMore than 100 swimmers carried a torch relay at the Conway Community Center for Special Olympics of Arkansas. UCA students and local first responders were in the pool.
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CommunityA nearly $1 million live-training facility in Greenville, backed by a $750,000 state grant, gives local crews heat-and-smoke practice without the drive to Springfield, Lima, or Dayton.
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CommunityMakenna Sandoval and Lilly Prindle of Troop 16336 earned the Silver Award with a native-plant garden at Prince Gallitzin State Park. Each girl put in more than 50 hours.
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Health & TechHovilpri (pritelivir) is for immunocompromised adults whose lesions did not respond to acyclovir, valacyclovir, or famciclovir. The trial was open-label, and herpes still has no cure.
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AnimalsFirst-time mother Zura delivered five healthy cubs on October 5, the institute's 21st litter and 90th cheetah birth. A live camera is open to the public.
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ScienceThe district is one of three in the country named a NASA HUNCH Center of Excellence. Students design hardware for the space station and Artemis, and some of their work has already flown.
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CommunityThe Fort Wayne food bank will use the gift for its Farm to Food Bank program, buying produce from Northeast Indiana farmers for its pantries.
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CommunityThe new Salida School Days program covers mountain access for Salida School District students in the 2026-27 season. Half-day beginner lessons will cost $49.
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CommunityDream on 3 surprised 18-year-old Sam Schreiner, who has Down syndrome, with a limousine send-off to a weekend of Nebraska football festivities.
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CommunityOklahoma State's Construction Management Society built a purple-and-white playhouse in Perkins for Alaina Hammer, who has finished her last round of chemo.
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CommunityMore than 60 volunteers with the San Luis Frontera Rotary Club packed meals at Colibri Supermarket on Saturday morning for the Salvation Army.
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CommunityThe team took the title at Iowa State among 30 district qualifiers. Dayne Chittick won the individual contest, and the top five Iowa schools go on to nationals in Oklahoma.
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AnimalsRescue dog Mayzie has made more than 230 visits to first responders in Northern California and Nevada, comforting more than 3,000 people. Voting runs through Oct. 19.
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CommunityElise Asay, Cole Marshall, and Nicole Zenchak ran an August bag drive and delivered the food to the Food Bank Network of Somerset County.
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CommunityFor the second year, the Troy Trojans partnered with Lids and the nonprofit Shoes That Fit to give Goshen Elementary students new shoes and hats.
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HeroesOfficers Joseph Murphy and Yevgeny Shipley, with people who stopped to help, lifted a car off a man who had been dragged underneath it.
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AnimalsBrevard Zoo released a juvenile green turtle treated for pneumonia and a three-flippered loggerhead rescued from cast-net line.
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CommunityBill Kinser followed his father into ballooning. Now his son flies with him, and the whole family helped light up Milkyway at Balloon Fiesta.
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HeroesRika Matsuda kept an origami crane a man folded for her in Japan when she was 7. Ten years later, an English assignment led her to unfold it.
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AnimalsThe last voyage of a five-year cleanup pulled derelict nets and plastic from the monument and freed five entangled green sea turtles.
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HeroesUltra O'Connell's last chemo is this weekend after two years of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She is set to ring the bell the following Friday.
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HeroesCarter Hicks told adults that a camper trailer was smoking, and the Blooming Grove Volunteer Fire Department later gave him a patch and a certificate.
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CommunityThe Albion Municipal Library grows tomatoes and peppers for its food pantry, with grants paying for the greenhouse, raised beds, and trees.
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HeroesJordan Hope handed his own slides to an older man whose shoes were falling apart, bought him candy, and has checked on him every day since.
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CommunityDave Irvin gave two AEDs and the cabinets to hang them in. They are mounted at Cousins Cafe and Coffee and at Lancaster Senior Housing.
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AnimalsAn Eastern red bat found struggling in the waves is now feisty at the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick and is eating mealworms.
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CommunityA volunteer’s post drew first-time gifts to the Jefferson County Food Bank, including donations from people who had never given there before.
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AnimalsOne Veteran, One Dog, Two Lives Saved paired combat veteran Ashley Dunn Gonzalez with a rescued Labrador who now steadies her days.
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ScienceA charitable trust and local fly fishers restored trout habitat beside Strawberry Park Elementary, and older students are already using the creek.
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Health & TechIn a 712-patient trial, adding atezolizumab to chemotherapy after surgery halved the risk of the cancer returning or of death. Median disease-free survival was not reached, and overall survival was not the result reported.
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CommunityNew York finished a $70,000 wildlife viewing platform in Wayne County, reached by a 750-foot stone-dust path and a ramp, in time for fall migration.
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CommunityEli Newton and his troop built a box at the Anderson Public Library where anyone can leave food or take it, and neighbors have refilled it several times.
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AnimalsAs water entered a restored channel at the Bison Range Reach, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes crews moved stranded fish, including a cutthroat trout.
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CommunityMaple Street School students made bouquets from Fleur Farm and gave them, with personal notes, to employees and shoppers at Shaw's.
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CommunityThe Kansas City nonprofit has kept 6 million pounds of food out of the waste stream in 10 years and is on pace to save 3 million pounds this year.
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CommunityA state grant and local partners put 124 free access points across Manhattan and Riley County, including at the emergency shelter.
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CommunityShoppers filled Trinity Episcopal Church’s used-book sale, and the proceeds go to groups including the Salvation Army and CASA.
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AnimalsSharon and Scott Jacobs stopped for a bird on a fence. A driver named Brandon had gloves and cutters, the landowner agreed by phone, and a vet removed two barbs.
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ScienceStudents at Mount St. Joseph Academy care for nine chestnut trees, and seeds from the grove have been planted at six other Vermont schools.
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CommunityThe Rotary Club of Steamboat Springs raised more than $400,000 for LiftUp of Routt County, after a $100,000 bank gift drew a $50,000 match.
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AnimalsOn Sept. 15, Kristian Roch and Timothy Guillotte found a kitten in a trash bag behind Station 2. Guillotte's family took it to their farm in Rochester and named it Meeko.
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AnimalsA charitable foundation gift will pay for cat-holding upgrades and surgical equipment at the Waverly shelter.
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CommunityDPR Construction and trade partners renovated a closed wing of the old Union High School, adding a computer lab, a robotics room, and a game room.
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AnimalsBest Friends Animal Society says every Wyoming shelter saved at least 90 percent of the animals in its care for 12 straight months, 92 percent statewide.
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HeroesThe First Responders Day Group gave $5,000 to the Texarkana College Foundation, and EMT student Hesley Rocha is the first recipient.
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HeroesTyce Gardner was hit in the chest by a ball and went into cardiac arrest. Coach Gene Richins started compressions at once, and doctors expect Tyce to fully recover.
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CommunitySEEDS volunteers sorted tens of thousands of donated books at the Wayne County Fairgrounds, and readers carried more than 28,000 of them home.
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HeroesWhen John White collapsed from a heart attack at home, his 16-year-old son Noah called 911 and started CPR.
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Health & TechTen people with advanced retinitis pigmentosa received an experimental optogenetic injection plus special goggles. Some sensed light better. Normal vision did not return.
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HeroesKinsley Locke, a sophomore at North Florida Christian School, marked a decade of giving plush toys to local fire departments and is now sending them to children in foster care.
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Health & TechIn a 654-person maintenance trial, median progression-free survival was 24.9 months with tucatinib and 16.3 months with placebo. Overall survival is not known yet.
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ScienceInsulated blankets held spring snow piles at Snowmass and Buttermilk. The resort says that saved snow would have taken about 3.5 million gallons of water to make.
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AnimalsStarting October 28, Cherryland Humane Society and Hoop’s Pet Food Pantry will give out pet food on the fourth Wednesday of the month.
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CommunityVolunteers cleared an annex, added shelving for more than 1,500 discs and audiobooks, and kept sale prices at a dollar.
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CommunityMore than 100 people, from age 5 to 90, packed meals at Glenview United Methodist Church for Midwest Mission.
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AnimalsJonesboro Animal Services is taking food, litter, and cleaning supplies through October, and dogs adopted this month get a lifetime microchip.
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ScienceWith Lake Craig Dam open after Hurricane Helene, smallmouth bass and russet darters are upstream of it for the first time in more than a century. Asheville will not repair the barrier.
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HeroesA silver maple fell through Gilbert Kirk's roof and trapped him and his dog for hours. After he asked on television for a tarp, neighbors covered the hole. They did not rebuild the house.
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CommunityThe Sun Lakes club is giving about 4,000 dictionaries to third graders in Chandler Unified schools and the Gila River Indian Community.
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AnimalsLoggerhead nests on Tybee reached 59 this season, a new high for the island, while Georgia as a whole counted a record 4,292 nests.
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ScienceA long-running James River study has now tagged 2,455 Atlantic sturgeon. The fish remain endangered.
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CommunityThe STAR Project is adding and realigning hiking, biking, and horse trails on the Deschutes National Forest, starting with hand work on the Brush Creek Trail.
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CommunityNeighbors, a Rotary club, scouts, and teen volunteers started a new coat of paint on the historic Oaklawn branch after the library said funding was scarce.
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CommunityLarry and Heidi Canarelli committed $50 million to Intermountain's Las Vegas children's hospital, planned to open in 2030 with 180 beds.
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CommunityDog Gone Kids 4-H placed a book box at the Cornell Cooperative Extension office on Main Street, the club’s third in Washington County.
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CommunityPour On the Divide, a fundraiser for the Pines & Plains Libraries Foundation, put money toward the Elizabeth Library buildout.
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CommunityHe was facing eviction. She knew what it felt like to need a break, so she gave him one.
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HeroesJerami Segura and April Comeaux were found alive on a platform in Lake Sand after a fisherman radioed the Coast Guard and nearby deputies responded.
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CommunityCommon Good City Farm grows about 4,500 pounds of produce a year and turns no one away, saving customers about $20,000 last year.
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AnimalsYoung patients at Akron Children's Hospital got a visit from a gentle four-legged friend, and for a few minutes the hospital felt a lot more like home.
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HeroesRoderick Green gathered 304 donated items for the Royse City Animal Shelter, collecting them outside pet stores in Rockwall and Fate.
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HeroesIn August her car went into a flooded retention pond on North Prospect Avenue. Three residents received Community Lifesaving Awards. Four officers received the chief's challenge coin, not those awards.
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CommunityEmmy Keating is nonverbal and has seizures in her sleep. Her community covered the family's $20,000 share of a trained service dog in two days.
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HeroesThe all-volunteer squad in Dante, Virginia, will offset training and response costs without charging patients for ambulance care.
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CommunityHallsville West Elementary passed 1,000 books given out through a machine students earn their way into, one student of the month at a time.
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CommunityHarvey Wetterlund's daily walks to say hello at the fire station, police station, and downtown shops earned him a key to the city.
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CommunityBay-Lakes Council scouts will hang collection bags on October 10 and pick them up on October 17 for more than 80 local pantries.
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AnimalsA USGS biologist and a Point Lay college student found the calf between two carcasses, kept him safe for nearly three days, and got him 800 miles to the Alaska SeaLife Center.
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HeroesHe takes care of the school every day. Then he gave a colleague's family the gift of a lifetime.
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ScienceStudents gave the endangered Blanding's turtle a head start, and the population is climbing.
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HeroesBen Pineiro draws Mickey and Minnie on car windows at ScrubaDub in Salem. For five-year-old Liam, who has autism, that made the car wash the family's favorite outing.
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AnimalsThe seventh annual fundraiser outside an east-side Petco raised support for a pet food pantry, a wellness clinic, and animals looking for homes.
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CommunityGrand County Library District saved for years so a larger Kremmling library can be built without a new tax, and neighbors are invited to the site on October 10.
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CommunityDNREC's 39th Coastal Cleanup, including Cape Henlopen State Park, pulled more than 3,800 pounds of litter a week before a nor'easter.
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CommunityThe Neighborhood Center of South Lake took delivery of a 2026 refrigerated truck after Central Florida donors covered the cost.
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CommunityThe Gardeners Guild meets Thursdays at the Orange Cove Branch Library, starting with lavender, St. John's wort, and society garlic.
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AnimalsSaved from a hoarding case, he had a heart defect repaired at WSU. His foster vet said yes, forever.
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HeroesGarrett Christie and Cade Lewis were headed to Sonic when they came upon a crash. They pried open a damaged door and helped the girl to safety.
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CommunityLily Baker finished leukemia treatment at age six. Her family held a pumpkin-painting fundraiser for the hospital that never sent them a bill.
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HeroesGeorgia Curry promised her late friend she'd look after her aunt. When Miss Marie couldn't call out, Georgia found someone at QLI who could.
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CommunityThe 23rd WSOY Community Food Drive, held for 12 hours at a Kroger in Decatur, set a record for the annual event.
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AnimalsAt Lucy Beckham High School, veterinary science students care for shelter dogs and cats from rural counties and help place them in homes.
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Health & TechIn a 282-person trial, the cancer took longer to worsen than with a common chemoimmunotherapy. Survival is not proven, and the approval excludes a 17p deletion.
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AnimalsThe Norman nonprofit invited the public to a grand reopening, with new kennels and room to perform veterinary care on site.
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CommunityNeighbors stocked a book-sharing box in front of the Congregational Church, with a shelf that leans toward children's titles.
Verified · Forks Forum
CommunityMore than 100 players rotated across a restaurant stage in Lansing, improvising without a pause from Monday morning until Wednesday night.
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CommunityThe Veterans Community Project village is finished after five years. One of its newest residents is an 80-year-old who had been without a home for 11 years.
Verified · SDPB
Health & TechIn a study of 62 children, the Autus valve met the FDA's six-month bar. Only two have been expanded so far, and longer follow-up is still underway.
Verified · U.S. Food and Drug Administration
CommunityAnythink Nature Library in Thornton opened so patrons can borrow outdoor gear, or walk a trail that starts just outside the branch.
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CommunityAbout 100 children's books from the Charles County Public Library now sit in a social services office in La Plata, and young visitors may keep them.
Verified · The Southern Maryland Chronicle
AnimalsA leash-cutting in Granby marked the new Grand County Pet Pals shelter, with the doors set to open to the public on October 1.
Verified · Denver7
ScienceAt Blue Heron Park in Phoenix, Oregon, a crowd watched 22 tagged butterflies lift off on a migration people can follow by phone.
Verified · Jefferson Public Radio
CommunityVolunteer Amanda West stocked a take-a-book box outside the sheriff's administration building in Springfield, Georgia.
Verified · WTOC
ScienceThe first known natural sea turtle nests on the U.S. West Coast were shifted to the Aquarium of the Pacific before storm surf could wash them out.
Verified · Los Angeles Times
CommunityArjun Buch and Krishay Patel raised about $1,500 to make 1,000 financial literacy kits that teach younger kids about needs, wants, and saving.
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