Four cats were found shaking, soaking wet and covered in fleas inside a mesh tunnel left out in heavy rain in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The Monmouth County SPCA nursed Morticia, Delilah, Matisse and Autumn back to health, and less than two weeks later all four were adopted.
Seven-year-old Isabella Myers was handed a mysterious box in her Greensboro school office. Inside was a golden lamp, a nod to the Aladdin movie she loves watching with her mom. She rubbed it and wished for her mom to come back. Seconds later, her Air Force mom walked in.
A mother orangutan named Gadis and her baby, Garis, were rescued in the middle of the night in Kandan Village, Central Kalimantan, after a rope suspected to be a pig snare was found wrapped around both her wrists. Both are now in care.
Graham Stockwell was born nearly four months early, weighing one pound and nine ounces. Days after he finally came home, Florence firefighters helped save his life. On his fourth birthday, his family brought him to see the fire trucks and found the same crew waiting.
A nearly 10-foot female dusky shark nicknamed Bukangi spent more than a month circling a narrow canal in Busan, South Korea, drawing more than 1.7 million visitors. After two failed attempts, workers guided her out on October 21. She came back hours later, so they let her leave on her own.
A 77-year-old man who had come to renew his passport was lost near JEM in Singapore with no phone, while his family searched all afternoon. ITE student Naira Maisara Binte Abdullah was about to cycle home. Instead, she walked him 30 minutes to his door.
Lana and the others slip into the old Kettering office through the front door and find thirteen steel boxes drilled open, a warm lamp, and a man waiting in the dark. Box 14 is still shut. Then a pair of high beams fills the alley.
Lana reads the letter her mother left her twenty-five years ago, and its very first line brings Royce to his knees. Cole makes the hardest decision of his life, Nadine finally explains the red string on the key, and Box 14 leads them to the old Kettering office before dawn.
An off-duty officer fishing near Corry, Pennsylvania thought he saw a bear cub in the brush. It was a young bald eagle who had fallen from her nest. After more than four months at Tamarack Wildlife Center, Ursa was released at Hartstown Marsh and circled the crowd five times.
Irishman Patrick Mohr’s gold wedding ring slipped off his finger into a fast mountain stream in Italy. Three Italian strangers roped themselves to boulders and dived for it until they found it nine days later, then flew to Ireland dressed as hobbits to give it back.