Jennifer Britton looked out at her yard in Lake of the Woods, Nova Scotia, and saw a young buck caught by his antlers in the family hammock. She backed away and called for help, and three wildlife officers sedated him, cut him free and cooled him with ice and lake water.
Principal Bobby Davis sprinted to the cafeteria of Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School to stop what he thought was a fight. It was a birthday prank, and the video drew millions of views. The senior who planned it says Davis changed his life.
Abel finally says who opened Cole’s desk drawer first, and it changes how June remembers Hank. Then Lana walks into the county jail alone to read the rest of her mother’s letter, and Rita tells her where she drove Caroline the night before she died.
Luna, a 10-year-old Jack Russell and Chihuahua mix, darted out of her family’s Yellowstone cabin on Sept. 10 and survived more than a month among bears and wolves. A volunteer rescuer set a live trap baited with her family’s scent, and on Oct. 14 her owner found her curled up inside.
Four-year-old Remi Floro of Port Clinton, Ohio, had to sell his tickets to Twenty One Pilots’ Ohio Stadium show when his leukemia relapsed and his bone marrow transplant was scheduled. Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph visited his hospital room instead, and Dun wore Remi’s name on stage.
Rita’s confession names the woman sitting across June’s table. But at the bottom of the page the handwriting changes, and inside Hank’s envelope Lana finds a letter June waited twenty-three years to read. Then Cole arrives with one more page, in a handwriting Lana knows by heart.
Rita claims Grandpa Hank sat in her kitchen until sunrise the night of the creek crash. June remembers a truck with one headlight, Abel realizes why Rita’s spare key was missing, and back at June’s table, Hank’s old barn coat gives up a secret sewn inside it for twenty-three years.
At a packed pep rally at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania, senior Keny Cedanio Ramirez was named homecoming king. When he saw his friend and fellow nominee Axton Kuhla, who has Down syndrome, start to cry, he placed his crown and sash on Axton’s head. The video went viral.
Stamford Vets receptionist Julia Durrant heard a tiny ginger-and-white kitten mewing from thick brambles in a layby off the A15 in Lincolnshire, with no homes nearby. After a borrowed trap failed, she rounded up a team of 14 with a net. Now Bramble has a loving new home.
Peggy-Sue the bulldog weighed 32.5kg when she arrived at RSPCA West Hatch and had to be carried to her kennel in a crate. A patient foster carer and a Taunton family who had just lost their dog helped her shed 9kg, and now she loves beaches, streams and cuddles.