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62 Years Later, Lost Purse Found Behind Locker

It was returned to original owner's 5 kids

(Newser) - Patti Rumfola lost her purse at school one day in 1957 and never saw it again. More than six decades later, it was found behind a locker at the Ohio school, ABC News reports. A custodian making repairs at the school, which was Hoover High School when the purse was...

Mom Calls 911 When Newborn Needs Formula

She wanted officers to make sure her kids were safe while she went to store, but got a lot more

(Newser) - When a Utah mom of five discovered, at 2am while her husband was out of town, that she couldn't breastfeed her hungry newborn, she called 911—and police delivered, literally. Shannon Bird tells KSL-TV that she first called her husband upon discovering that her breast milk had apparently dried...

Cops: Cab Driver Saved Woman, 92, From Scam

He took her to the police station instead of the bank

(Newser) - An elderly woman in northern California would have had her bank account cleaned out by scammers if it wasn't for a conscientious cab driver, police say. Officers say the 92-year-old woman told Roseville Cab owner Raj Singh that she was going to the bank to withdraw $25,000 to...

Dog Eats Crack Cocaine Thrown Into Yard

Nipsey was saved after Detroit incident

(Newser) - Detroit police showed up to a house with a search warrant Wednesday, and the suspect threw a bag over the fence. That bag held crack cocaine, and a dog, Nipsey, was in the yard on the other side of the fence—and started eating the bag's contents. The dog'...

5-Year-Old Saves Sister From Fire, Goes Back for Dog

Georgia's Noah Woods is being hailed as a hero

(Newser) - First Noah Woods saved his sister, pulling her out a window during a house fire last weekend in Georgia's Bartow County. Then he went back for the family dog. Have we mentioned Noah is 5 years old? Fire officials say the blaze in Noah's Kingston home started Sunday...

Teen Steps Up to Help Sick Sister, Gets in Trouble at School

Newt Johnson told he's violating district's dress code

(Newser) - Maggie Johnson, 11, was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease in October, requiring her to undergo chemo and dialysis that started making her curly red hair fall out, per WOAI . Her big brother, 16-year-old Newt, decided to do something special for her—and now his family says he's been...

Cherokee Nation: 'This Is History in the Making'

US tribe is first to deposit heirloom seeds in global vault

(Newser) - "There will always be a part of the Cherokee Nation in the world," declares the Native American tribe, which will be the first to store its heirloom seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, better known as the "doomsday vault." In a statement , Senior Director of...

Bodega Worker's Awesome Math Challenge Goes Viral

If customers solve math problems correctly, they get a 5-second shopping spree

(Newser) - Ahmed Alwan wants to inspire kids to stay in school, and the Bronx bodega worker has come up with a great way to reach those kids: viral TikTok challenges . Alwan, whose father has owned the Crotona Park store for more than a decade, films himself shouting out math problems (think...

New Champion Celebrates by Paying 100 Dogs' Adoption Fees

Chiefs' tackle calls it 'the perfect way' to cap Super Bowl season

(Newser) - Every time the Kansas City Chiefs won a game this season, Derrick Nnadi's foundation paid the adoption fee for a dog at a local animal shelter. After the Chiefs won the Super Bowl on Sunday, CBS reports, the new champion took it up a notch, covering the fees for...

Her Dog Vanished in 2017. Then She Saw the Beer Can

Monica Mathis says she has no idea how Hazel got from Iowa to Florida

(Newser) - Monica Mathis has no idea how Hazel, missing for more than two years, got from Iowa to Florida—but Mathis is now excited to welcome her home to Minnesota. Hazel is Mathis' dog, a terrier mix who vanished from Mathis' yard in 2017. "She was an escape artist, she...

Kobe's High School Jersey Was Stolen—and Now Returned

He wore No. 33 as a teen

(Newser) - He was known as No. 24 for the Los Angeles Lakers, but when Kobe Bryant shot hoops at Lower Merion High School in the Philadelphia suburbs, he was No. 33. The jersey he wore back then was swiped from the Ardmore school in 2017, but now, in the wake of...

He Got a New Heart, Rode Across US as a Thank-You

'Bicycling' tells the story of one organ recipient's grand gesture

(Newser) - Christine Cheer held a stethoscope to the chest of Mike Cohen and listened to the beat of his heart. More specifically, she listened to the beat of her son's heart, which had been implanted into Cohen after her son's death. Such meetings are always remarkable, but A.C....

A Late Journalist Gets One More Honor

Gwen Ifill is now on a forever stamp

(Newser) - She was a groundbreaking journalist. And now Gwen Ifill is being honored by the US Postal Service with her own Forever stamp, reports the Root . Ifill, who died of cancer in 2016 at age 61, is the 43rd stamp in the Black Heritage series. Ifill wrote for outlets including the...

Teen Raised $10K to Install Baby Box. It Paid Off Last Week

A newborn girl was left inside the Safe Haven box in Indiana

(Newser) - Less than a year after an Indiana teen raised $10,000 to install a Safe Haven Baby Box in his town, a newborn was left inside the box. It took Hunter Wart, 19, more than a year to raise the funds; he mowed lawns and collected scrap metal, which he...

In Sumo&#39;s Cinderella Story, Big Boys Do Cry
Tearful
Sumo Champ
Wins Over
Japan
Jan 28, 2020 11:49 AM CST

Tearful Sumo Champ Wins Over Japan

Tokushoryu is first bottom-ranked wrestler to win top title in 20 years

(Newser) - Sumo fans aren't used to seeing displays of emotion. But Tokushoryu's tears upon winning Japan's first main sumo tournament of the year on Sunday are just part of the reason fans have embraced the up-and-coming wrestler. With the rank of No. 17 maegashira, the 414-pound Tokushoryu was...

Onlookers Lift SUV to Free Woman Trapped Underneath

Woman appears to be fine, though probably in some amount of pain

(Newser) - An amazing moment was caught on video in New York City Sunday, when onlookers ran to lift an SUV off of a pedestrian. The woman had apparently been run over, the New York Post reports. Nearly a dozen passers-by tilted the vehicle to the right in order to pull her...

3 Abandoned Kittens Saved by a Cup of Coffee
3 Abandoned Kittens
Saved by a Cup of Coffee
video
Jan 27, 2020 9:28 AM CST

3 Abandoned Kittens Saved by a Cup of Coffee

Quick-thinking Alberta man frees them from ice, then finds them a new home

(Newser) - Never has a cup of lukewarm coffee done so much good. A man in Alberta, Canada, used his coffee to free three kittens stuck to the ice, reports the BBC . (See video here .) The best part: He posted about his unusual rescue on Facebook , and now all three kittens...

Can't Pay for Surgery? This Doctor Has a Creative Solution

Demetrio Aguila lets eligible patients put in volunteer hours for operations

(Newser) - "Who are my heroes? Who are the people I look at and say, 'That's who I want to be'?" For Demetrio Aguila, a Nebraska surgeon specializing in nerve pain, the answer to his own question is his father, also a physician—and one who loved helping...

2 Guys Just Made an &#39;Earth Sandwich&#39;
2 Guys
Just Made
an 'Earth
Sandwich'
Jan 21, 2020 11:25 AM CST

2 Guys Just Made an 'Earth Sandwich'

They precisely placed slices of bread on the ground in New Zealand and Spain

(Newser) - Two strangers who live a world apart just made an unusual sandwich together. In New Zealand, 19-year-old Etienne Naude placed a slice of bread on the ground at a precisely calculated spot. In Spain, 34-year-old Angel Sierra did the same, reports the BBC . The result is an "earth sandwich"...

Bank Worker's Christmas Eve Kindness Gets Her Canned

Emily James fired from US Bank after giving broke customer $20

(Newser) - One of US Bank's core tenets is "We put people first," but when one of its own senior bankers tried to do just that, she was fired. Emily James tells the Oregonian that on Dec. 23, she was working at the bank's call center in Gresham,...

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