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This adventurous 15-year-old corgi finally made it home, thanks to a mother’s gut instincts and a Twitter star. Hear the Good News Guru tell the tale.
Source: Lost Corgi Goes Viral on Twitter, But Old-Fashioned Fate Brings Him Home
You know you had me at “Corgi”, right? 🙂
Research shows domestic violence victims often delay leaving abusers because they cannot take their animals but fear what will happen if the pets are left behind.
Source: Little by little, domestic violence shelters become pet-friendly
This is a lesson emergency workers have learned as well: pets matter. Allowing pets increases the ability to help their people.
The decline has coincided with a greater understanding that smoking is a cause of cancer, heart disease and other health problems.
Source: Just under 14 percent of adults smoke in the U.S., CDC finds
One of those really good news items that never makes headlines.
I can’t say enough about this beautiful young woman named Clara who didn’t think twice about helping her fellow passenger.
Source: Facebook post by Lynette Scribner (no Facebook account required)
There are many, many more players in this awesome story.
The cabinet is considering closing a further four prisons because of falling prisoner numbers, the AD said on Wednesday.
Source: Dutch to close four more prisons as crime rate continues to fall: AD – DutchNews.nl
What a great problem to have.
The money will be used to bond parents out of immigration jails and to provide lawyers to parents and children as they fight in court to stay together and in the U.S.
Amazing. Just amazing.
A ninth-grade Azerbaijani student has come up with an idea to develop a device that will produce energy from rainwater
Source: Teenagers Design ‘Electric Rain’ Machine To Produce Energy | OilPrice.com
Pretty cool idea, particularly in wet regions.
A Texas man had his pit bull Titan stolen nearly 4 months ago but got a call from an animal shelter in Greenville, SC that it had the dog who had been abused. The man drove over 1,000 miles roundtrip to get the dog and started a gofundme.
Source: His dog was stolen by ‘monsters’ months ago. He just drove 900 miles to get him back
Happy ending, thanks to a microchip!
A policeman who bought a youth the interview outfit he tried to steal says he starts work on Monday.
Source: Toronto shoplifting teen gets the job
Great result!
A new technology is getting a lot of attention — and for good reason — at the brand-new Starbucks by the outlet malls in St.
Source: Deaf woman’s video at St. Augustine Starbucks goes viral
Great idea.