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Friday, Oct 23 · Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
He jumped on a moving bus and saved 18 kidsHe could have filmed it. He jumped on instead.
Ebro Ahmed was standing outside the convenience store where he works in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Monday when a Battle Creek Middle School bus rolled past him with its doors open and lights flashing. The driver was having a medical emergency. Ahmed ran and jumped aboard the moving bus. "I tried to put it in park, I threw it in reverse by accident, and then I ended up getting it in neutral, pulled the parking brake," he told 5 Eyewitness News. He counted 18 children on board. None were hurt, and the driver was released from the hospital by Wednesday. Ahmed, who has no medical training, credits the TV show Grey's Anatomy. "I like to give my credit to Grey's Anatomy. I learned a lot," he said. Friends have taken to calling him Superman. Local business owner Sheletta Brundidge handed him a $1,000 check, noting that some heroes are store clerks. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
Born at one pound, he just turned fourThey documented his medical needs. Four days later, they came back.
Graham Stockwell turned four this week, and he spent the day with the Florence, Kentucky firefighters who kept him alive long enough to get there. He was born four months early, weighing one pound and nine ounces, with less than a 10% chance to survive. He came home after a year and a day in the hospital, on a ventilator and with a tracheostomy. Florence firefighters had visited through Cincinnati Children's Hospital's Heroes Program, which flags medically complex kids to local departments. Four days later, Graham's parents were giving him CPR. "Within two to three minutes, Florence Fire and EMS are right on our backs," his father, Carl Stockwell, said. On Thursday the same crew showed up for cake. The family had expected to look at some fire trucks and go home. Graham, who wears a fire truck outfit around the house, now has one birthday wish. He wants to be a firefighter. Read the full story → | |||
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MOTIVATIONAL • NPR Stories
A walk around the world ends at his mother's houseHe set one rule. No going home until he walked there.
British adventurer Karl Bushby has nearly finished a walk he started 28 years ago. He left the southern tip of Chile with two rules: no transportation to advance, and no going home to England until he arrived there on foot. He now aims to reach his mother's house in Hull by Nov. 1. The idea came from a birthday card his father gave him, recounting an argument between two UK Special Forces members over whether you could walk from London to New York via the Bering Strait. Bushby decided to find out, and to go farther. His Goliath Expedition took him through the Darien Gap, across 58 miles of Bering Strait ice over 14 days, and recently across the English Channel by swimming, after being denied access to the tunnel. The cost was not only physical. He has a granddaughter he has never met. "I'd like to drag it out longer if I could," he said. Read the full story → | |||
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NATURE • Good News Network
One year later, ground doves are nesting in the open again.The rats got the eggs for years. Then the rats left.
One year after rats and feral pigs were removed from Nu'utele Island, native seedlings are carpeting the forest floor and birds are nesting in the open again. Samoa's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the nonprofit Island Conservation and community members from nearby Aleipata ran the eradication, baiting and trapping rats while hunting pigs across rugged terrain. Field teams spent more than 130 days on the island between March 2025 and May 2026. Former New Zealand rugby player Glen Osborne joined the hunting teams tracking down the last feral pigs. The response was fast. Within a month, researchers found shy ground dove nests holding eggs in bird's-nest ferns, a spot that would have been easy pickings before. They also recorded a land crab species never documented on the island. "People are now able to grow and harvest giant taro plants where crops would have failed previously," said project manager Paul Jacques. Next comes the Mao, a threatened forest bird waiting for a home. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
Their pipe-inspection robot earned a new title. Kitten rescuer.The crew tried a camera and their hands. The cat refused.
A sewer crew in West Valley City, Utah, pulled a kitten out of a drain pipe in mid-October using a remote-controlled crawler normally reserved for inspecting sewage lines. The device, nicknamed R2D2, carries a live camera and lights and looks roughly like a toy truck. Footage released by the city government shows it nudging the stranded kitten down the pipe until the animal finally crawled into the open. Crew members from the public works department first tried a pole camera to locate the cat, then attempted to coax it out by hand. According to the city, it "wouldn't budge." So they sent in the robot, which bopped the kitten along until it gave up and climbed out. "R2D2 is usually used to inspect pipes," officials said, "but now it can add 'kitten rescuer' to its list of functions." The kitten declined to comment.
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