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A Tallahassee student has donated 2,000 stuffed animals

Tybee Island logged a record 59 loggerhead nests

A Honesdale book share found new homes for more than 28,000 books

Hallsville students have taken home 1,000 books from a school vending machine

A diner owner who grew up in foster care gave a regular a job. Now that dad has a home.

A therapy pony named Willie Nelson is bringing smiles to sick kids

An Eagle Scout collected pet supplies worth about $3,250 for Royse City

Northeast Wisconsin scouts are lining up a 38th food drive

School custodian Andrew Allen donated a kidney to a teacher's brother

Schoolkids helped a rare turtle come back from about 55 adults to about 300

Green Bay's Rescue Roundup brought shelters and neighbors together for pets

Kremmling's new library is fully funded, and a groundbreaking party is set

Neighbors raised more than $170,000 for a new pantry truck in Groveland

Orange Cove's library opened a healing herb garden and a weekly club

Teedee the rescue puppy got his heart fixed and a forever home with his foster vet

Decatur's one-day food drive raised $1,051,034

Second Chance Animal Rescue in Norman opened a rebuilt shelter

A new little free library opened on Spartan Avenue in Forks

Musicians in Lansing kept a jam going for 60 straight hours

Thornton's new library lends outdoor gear along with the books

Grand County opened a new animal shelter after neighbors pitched in

Charles County's library stocked a reading corner where kids can take books home

Researchers released Oregon monarchs wearing solar-powered tags

A little free library opened outside the Effingham County sheriff's office

Biologists moved 204 olive ridley eggs off Orange County beaches