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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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HeroesAfter scammers took a DoorDash driver's paycheck the day before his daughter turned 2, Officers Alessandro Figuccio and Tanner Schnieder bought clothes, toys, and a pink bike and brought them back.
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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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